Collaborative Working Contracts in Birmingham

Collaborative Working
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 54 55
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 +9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Collaborative Working 18 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.11% 1.57% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 1.93% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 6
10th Percentile - £288 £450
25th Percentile £163 £372 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -12.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile - £678 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £413 £550
% change year-on-year +21.21% -25.00% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.88 £15.90 £27.50
% change year-on-year +113.08% -42.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Collaborative Working falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 505 571 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.37% 81.46% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 391 481
10th Percentile £166 £208 £270
25th Percentile £358 £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £638 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 15 27
10th Percentile - £14.60 £13.22
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.88 £19.37
Median hourly rate £18.87 £40.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.41% +47.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £22.08 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £81.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +15.90% -23.64% +63.45%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in Birmingham

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in Birmingham over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in Birmingham

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) JMeter
1 2 (11.11%) Postman
1 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
1 2 (11.11%) TestNG
1 2 (11.11%) Travis CI
2 1 (5.56%) Pa11y
General
1 15 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Tester
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Tester
3 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Project Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Solutions Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.11%) Agile
3 2 (11.11%) API Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Functional Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Performance Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Security Testing
3 2 (11.11%) SIEM
3 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
3 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CEH
3 2 (11.11%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) MCP
4 1 (5.56%) MCSA
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kibana
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Juniper
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft