Charles River Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Charles River
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring knowledge or experience of Charles River products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Charles River over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 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 Charles River Systems, Inc.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Charles River 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £975 - -

All Vendors
Birmingham

Charles River 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 422 237 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 45.04% 44.05% 45.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 164 249
10th Percentile £311 £150 £263
25th Percentile £383 £295 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £539 £600 £575
90th Percentile £623 £692 £690
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +1.96% +2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 22
10th Percentile £15.11 £19.33 £13.33
25th Percentile £18.53 £20.57 £14.40
Median hourly rate £22.17 £26.40 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -16.01% +4.23% +17.23%
75th Percentile £32.99 £37.87 £35.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £51.52 £54.05
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.98 £30.00 £18.39
% change year-on-year +13.27% +63.18% -18.29%

Charles River
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Order Management
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Murex