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 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 232 247 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.15% 10.70% 11.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.29% 11.27% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 179 298
10th Percentile £259 £356 £356
25th Percentile £313 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +1.06% +17.50%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £540
90th Percentile £611 £675 £588
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 £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% +11.11%

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 1,746 2,191 3,394
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 94.89% 96.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 1,497 2,464
10th Percentile £259 £250 £230
25th Percentile £363 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £699 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 63 77
10th Percentile £12.04 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +9.68%
75th Percentile £41.13 £27.57 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.75 £56.75 £22.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -11.11% 76
Warwickshire -2 26 £580 +10.58% 28
Shropshire +13 19 £374 -30.22% 5
Coventry -5 12 £425 - 21
Staffordshire +13 9 £350 -26.32% 34
Worcestershire +6 5 £450 +20.00% 16
Walsall +1 2 £338 - 2
Dudley -1 2 £363 -27.50% 3
Herefordshire -14 1 £400 -20.00% 10
West Bromwich - 1 £338 - 1
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 68 (29.31%) SQL
2 43 (18.53%) Social Skills
3 42 (18.10%) Agile
4 38 (16.38%) Azure
5 36 (15.52%) C#
6 34 (14.66%) Degree
7 31 (13.36%) JavaScript
7 31 (13.36%) TypeScript
8 29 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
9 28 (12.07%) Python
9 28 (12.07%) Microsoft
10 27 (11.64%) HTML
10 27 (11.64%) .NET
11 25 (10.78%) Java
11 25 (10.78%) Artificial Intelligence
11 25 (10.78%) AngularJS
11 25 (10.78%) Code Quality
11 25 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (10.34%) Conversational UI
12 24 (10.34%) Chatbot
12 24 (10.34%) PayPal
13 23 (9.91%) DevOps
13 23 (9.91%) React
13 23 (9.91%) Scrum
13 23 (9.91%) Software Engineering
14 22 (9.48%) CI/CD
15 21 (9.05%) Power Platform
15 21 (9.05%) AWS
16 19 (8.19%) Git
16 19 (8.19%) Finance

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 (4.31%) SAS
2 9 (3.88%) CICS
3 8 (3.45%) WordPress
4 6 (2.59%) OpenEdge
5 5 (2.16%) CMS
6 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.86%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.43%) Drupal
8 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (10.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Odoo
2 4 (1.72%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.29%) Exstream
4 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) OpenCart
Cloud Services
1 38 (16.38%) Azure
2 21 (9.05%) AWS
2 21 (9.05%) Power Platform
3 17 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.31%) Power Automate
4 10 (4.31%) Serverless
5 8 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 8 (3.45%) PowerApps
6 7 (3.02%) Azure App Service
7 5 (2.16%) Azure AKS
7 5 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.16%) GCP
8 4 (1.72%) Apigee
8 4 (1.72%) Boomi
9 3 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.29%) SaaS
10 2 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) Extranet
1 1 (0.43%) FTP
1 1 (0.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.19%) Power BI
2 12 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.74%) DB2
4 10 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.88%) IDMS
6 8 (3.45%) MySQL
7 7 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.72%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.86%) Power Query
11 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.43%) Flink
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.43%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 19 (8.19%) Git
2 14 (6.03%) Rational Rhapsody
3 6 (2.59%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.72%) Ant
5 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.29%) NUnit
5 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.29%) webpack
6 2 (0.86%) Hudson
6 2 (0.86%) Moq
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) Xcode
General
1 43 (18.53%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.19%) Finance
3 9 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.59%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.16%) Billing
6 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.86%) Banking
7 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.86%) Marketing
7 2 (0.86%) Retail
8 1 (0.43%) Automotive
8 1 (0.43%) Electronics
8 1 (0.43%) Games
8 1 (0.43%) Law
8 1 (0.43%) Local Government
8 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.64%) .NET
1 27 (11.64%) HTML
2 25 (10.78%) AngularJS
3 23 (9.91%) React
4 15 (6.47%) GraphQL
5 14 (6.03%) CSS
6 10 (4.31%) Spring
7 9 (3.88%) Express.js
7 9 (3.88%) RESTful
7 9 (3.88%) Vue
8 7 (3.02%) Node.js
8 7 (3.02%) REST
9 6 (2.59%) .NET Framework
9 6 (2.59%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.16%) Apollo GraphQL
11 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (1.72%) React Native
11 4 (1.72%) XML
12 3 (1.29%) SOAP
12 3 (1.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.74%) Mainframe
2 10 (4.31%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.29%) DataPower
8 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.86%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.43%) FMCG
10 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.43%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.31%) Unix
2 9 (3.88%) zOS
3 3 (1.29%) Android
3 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.29%) Linux
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (18.10%) Agile
2 29 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
3 25 (10.78%) Artificial Intelligence
3 25 (10.78%) Code Quality
3 25 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (10.34%) Conversational UI
5 23 (9.91%) DevOps
5 23 (9.91%) Scrum
5 23 (9.91%) Software Engineering
6 22 (9.48%) CI/CD
7 19 (8.19%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (6.03%) Microservices
10 12 (5.17%) ETL
10 12 (5.17%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (4.74%) ERP
11 11 (4.74%) Migration
12 10 (4.31%) Analytics
12 10 (4.31%) Computer Science
12 10 (4.31%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 68 (29.31%) SQL
2 36 (15.52%) C#
3 31 (13.36%) JavaScript
3 31 (13.36%) TypeScript
4 28 (12.07%) Python
5 25 (10.78%) Java
6 11 (4.74%) COBOL
7 10 (4.31%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.88%) CLIST
8 9 (3.88%) PHP
8 9 (3.88%) REXX
8 9 (3.88%) SELCOPY
9 7 (3.02%) Bash
9 7 (3.02%) Bourne shell
9 7 (3.02%) Korn
10 5 (2.16%) Bicep
11 3 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.86%) Perl
12 2 (0.86%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (14.66%) Degree
2 15 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.03%) HL7
2 6 (2.59%) QA
3 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) IAG
Systems Management
1 5 (2.16%) Terraform
2 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.43%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 28 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.34%) PayPal
3 19 (8.19%) Oracle
4 15 (6.47%) IBM
5 10 (4.31%) SAP
6 9 (3.88%) Syncsort
7 5 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.29%) Informatica
8 3 (1.29%) OpenText
9 1 (0.43%) Ariba
9 1 (0.43%) ICL
9 1 (0.43%) IFS
9 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.43%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.43%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.43%) QAD
9 1 (0.43%) Sybase
9 1 (0.43%) Workday