Cadence Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cadence
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring knowledge or experience of Cadence products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cadence over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cadence Design Systems.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cadence 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £707 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £707 - -

All Vendors
Birmingham

Cadence falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 402 347 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 52.14% 55.08% 48.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 252 200
10th Percentile £258 £200 £236
25th Percentile £378 £363 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +12.50% +1.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £633 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 6
10th Percentile £17.21 £19.91 £12.19
25th Percentile £17.85 £27.28 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +4.35% +107.21%
75th Percentile £27.25 £30.68 £51.69
90th Percentile £51.15 £42.41 £61.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.50 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -0.42% +2.61% +35.81%

Cadence
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cadence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Cadence job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cadence
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cadence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cadence

Cadence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation