Data Collection Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Collection
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Collection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 177 133
Rank change year-on-year +9 -44 +122
Permanent jobs citing Data Collection 4 25 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.076% 0.57% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.63% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 41
10th Percentile - £33,700 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -25.00% +103.70%
75th Percentile £44,375 £44,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £44,750 £46,375 -
England median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Collection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,342 3,941 2,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.64% 90.58% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,242 1,778 2,516
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,625 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Collection relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Data Collection job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Collection
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Collection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Collection within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Walsall +4 3 £42,500 -
Birmingham +25 1 - -
Data Collection
England

Data Collection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 3 (75.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Billing
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Business Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Commercial Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) Insight Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Linear Regression
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft