Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 226 254 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.74% 10.67% 11.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.86% 11.24% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 185 312
10th Percentile £259 £354 £356
25th Percentile £313 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £540
90th Percentile £611 £663 £586
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £38.75 - -
25th Percentile £40.13 £31.69 -
Median hourly rate £49.00 £33.39 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.77% - -
75th Percentile £55.94 £35.08 -
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +7.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,758 2,260 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 94.96% 96.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,555 2,513
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 83
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +9.71%
75th Percentile £42.31 £26.82 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £23.45
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +7 140 £400 -13.51% 76
Warwickshire -7 22 £580 +13.39% 22
Shropshire +19 19 £374 -30.74% 6
Coventry -8 11 £425 - 13
Staffordshire +13 9 £350 -26.32% 34
Worcestershire +5 5 £450 +20.00% 13
Walsall +4 2 £338 - 2
Dudley -1 2 £363 -27.50% 3
Herefordshire -10 1 £400 -30.43% 10
West Bromwich - 1 £338 -
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 69 (30.53%) SQL
2 40 (17.70%) Agile
2 40 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.93%) Azure
4 35 (15.49%) C#
5 33 (14.60%) Degree
6 31 (13.72%) JavaScript
6 31 (13.72%) TypeScript
7 29 (12.83%) Full Stack Development
8 28 (12.39%) Python
8 28 (12.39%) Microsoft
9 26 (11.50%) Java
9 26 (11.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 25 (11.06%) HTML
10 25 (11.06%) .NET
10 25 (11.06%) AngularJS
10 25 (11.06%) Code Quality
10 25 (11.06%) Chatbot
10 25 (11.06%) Conversational UI
11 24 (10.62%) PayPal
12 23 (10.18%) React
12 23 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (10.18%) Software Engineering
12 23 (10.18%) Scrum
13 21 (9.29%) Finance
13 21 (9.29%) CI/CD
14 20 (8.85%) AWS
15 19 (8.41%) Git
15 19 (8.41%) Power Platform
16 18 (7.96%) DevOps

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.42%) SAS
2 9 (3.98%) CICS
3 7 (3.10%) WordPress
4 5 (2.21%) OpenEdge
5 4 (1.77%) CMS
5 4 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.88%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.44%) Drupal
7 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (11.06%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.21%) Odoo
2 3 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.88%) Exstream
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.44%) Magento
4 1 (0.44%) OpenCart
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.93%) Azure
2 20 (8.85%) AWS
3 19 (8.41%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (4.42%) Serverless
6 8 (3.54%) Azure Functions
7 7 (3.10%) Azure App Service
7 7 (3.10%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.65%) GCP
8 6 (2.65%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.21%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.77%) Apigee
10 4 (1.77%) Boomi
10 4 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.33%) SaaS
12 2 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) Extranet
1 1 (0.44%) FTP
1 1 (0.44%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.52%) Power BI
2 11 (4.87%) DB2
2 11 (4.87%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.98%) IDMS
5 7 (3.10%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.21%) MySQL
7 4 (1.77%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.77%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.88%) Power Query
9 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.44%) Flink
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.44%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (8.41%) Git
2 15 (6.64%) Rational Rhapsody
3 6 (2.65%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.77%) Ant
5 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.33%) NUnit
5 3 (1.33%) webpack
6 2 (0.88%) Hudson
6 2 (0.88%) Moq
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.44%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.44%) Xcode
General
1 40 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.29%) Finance
3 8 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (3.54%) Public Sector
4 6 (2.65%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.21%) Billing
6 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.88%) Banking
7 2 (0.88%) Marketing
7 2 (0.88%) Retail
8 1 (0.44%) Automotive
8 1 (0.44%) Electronics
8 1 (0.44%) Games
8 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.44%) Law
8 1 (0.44%) Local Government
8 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.06%) .NET
1 25 (11.06%) AngularJS
1 25 (11.06%) HTML
2 23 (10.18%) React
3 16 (7.08%) GraphQL
4 12 (5.31%) CSS
5 10 (4.42%) Spring
5 10 (4.42%) Vue
6 9 (3.98%) Express.js
6 9 (3.98%) RESTful
7 7 (3.10%) Node.js
7 7 (3.10%) REST
8 5 (2.21%) Apollo GraphQL
8 5 (2.21%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.77%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (1.77%) SOAP
10 3 (1.33%) Hibernate
10 3 (1.33%) Next.js
10 3 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.87%) Mainframe
2 10 (4.42%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.21%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.33%) DataPower
8 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.44%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.44%) FMCG
10 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.44%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.42%) Unix
2 9 (3.98%) zOS
3 3 (1.33%) Android
3 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.33%) Linux
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
4 1 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (17.70%) Agile
2 29 (12.83%) Full Stack Development
3 26 (11.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (11.06%) Code Quality
4 25 (11.06%) Conversational UI
5 23 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (10.18%) Scrum
5 23 (10.18%) Software Engineering
6 21 (9.29%) CI/CD
7 18 (7.96%) DevOps
8 17 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (6.19%) Microservices
11 12 (5.31%) ETL
11 12 (5.31%) Requirements Gathering
12 10 (4.42%) Analytics
12 10 (4.42%) ERP
12 10 (4.42%) Machine Learning
12 10 (4.42%) Migration
12 10 (4.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 69 (30.53%) SQL
2 35 (15.49%) C#
3 31 (13.72%) JavaScript
3 31 (13.72%) TypeScript
4 28 (12.39%) Python
5 26 (11.50%) Java
6 11 (4.87%) COBOL
7 10 (4.42%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.98%) CLIST
8 9 (3.98%) PHP
8 9 (3.98%) REXX
8 9 (3.98%) SELCOPY
9 7 (3.10%) Bash
9 7 (3.10%) Bourne shell
9 7 (3.10%) Korn
10 5 (2.21%) Bicep
11 3 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (14.60%) Degree
2 14 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.64%) HL7
2 6 (2.65%) QA
3 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (1.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) IAG
Systems Management
1 5 (2.21%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.21%) Terraform
2 1 (0.44%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 28 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.62%) PayPal
3 16 (7.08%) Oracle
4 15 (6.64%) IBM
5 9 (3.98%) SAP
5 9 (3.98%) Syncsort
6 5 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.33%) Informatica
8 2 (0.88%) OpenText
9 1 (0.44%) Ariba
9 1 (0.44%) ICL
9 1 (0.44%) IFS
9 1 (0.44%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.44%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) QAD
9 1 (0.44%) Sybase
9 1 (0.44%) Workday