Developer Contracts in Birmingham

Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Developer daily rate in Birmingham is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 7 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 140 112 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.28% 12.39% 12.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.83% 12.87% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 90 133
10th Percentile £238 £313 £351
25th Percentile £260 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +2.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £494 £588 £525
90th Percentile £575 £700 £598
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +18.75%
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 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £49.00 £33.39 -
% change year-on-year +46.77% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 706 870 1,265
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 96.24% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 583 928
10th Percentile £250 £263 £209
25th Percentile £325 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £578
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 22
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.53
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £14.08
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.35% -2.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
% change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +9.71%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Birmingham

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Birmingham

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Birmingham

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Birmingham

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Birmingham

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 28 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 Birmingham region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 45 (32.14%) SQL
2 31 (22.14%) Degree
3 27 (19.29%) Python
4 25 (17.86%) Chatbot
4 25 (17.86%) Conversational UI
5 24 (17.14%) Code Quality
5 24 (17.14%) PayPal
5 24 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 24 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (16.43%) Social Skills
7 22 (15.71%) Java
8 21 (15.00%) C#
9 18 (12.86%) HTML
9 18 (12.86%) Microsoft
10 17 (12.14%) Finance
10 17 (12.14%) Software Engineering
11 16 (11.43%) AngularJS
12 15 (10.71%) Rational Rhapsody
12 15 (10.71%) React
12 15 (10.71%) HL7
13 13 (9.29%) TypeScript
13 13 (9.29%) Azure
14 12 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
14 12 (8.57%) Power Platform
14 12 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (8.57%) Agile
15 11 (7.86%) Power BI
16 10 (7.14%) Spring
16 10 (7.14%) CI/CD

Developer Skill Set
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 6 (4.29%) WordPress
2 5 (3.57%) OpenEdge
3 3 (2.14%) CMS
4 2 (1.43%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (17.86%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Odoo
2 1 (0.71%) Magento
2 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.71%) OpenCart
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.29%) Azure
2 12 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.43%) AWS
4 7 (5.00%) Serverless
5 6 (4.29%) GCP
5 6 (4.29%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.57%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.86%) Apigee
7 4 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.86%) Boomi
7 4 (2.86%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.14%) SaaS
9 2 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.71%) GitHub
10 1 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) Power BI
2 9 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.86%) MySQL
6 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.71%) DB2
7 1 (0.71%) Flink
7 1 (0.71%) Jackrabbit
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.71%) Power Query
7 1 (0.71%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (10.71%) Rational Rhapsody
2 5 (3.57%) Git
3 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.14%) webpack
4 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.71%) Hudson
4 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (16.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.14%) Finance
3 3 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (2.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.43%) Banking
4 2 (1.43%) Marketing
5 1 (0.71%) Billing
5 1 (0.71%) Electronics
5 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.86%) HTML
2 16 (11.43%) AngularJS
3 15 (10.71%) React
4 10 (7.14%) Spring
5 9 (6.43%) .NET
5 9 (6.43%) Vue
6 6 (4.29%) CSS
6 6 (4.29%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.86%) Express.js
7 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (2.86%) Node.js
7 4 (2.86%) REST
7 4 (2.86%) RESTful
8 3 (2.14%) Hibernate
8 3 (2.14%) Next.js
8 3 (2.14%) SOAP
8 3 (2.14%) XML
9 2 (1.43%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.43%) JSON
9 2 (1.43%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.71%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.71%) FMCG
5 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.71%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.71%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) VMS
3 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.86%) Conversational UI
2 24 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 24 (17.14%) Code Quality
3 17 (12.14%) Software Engineering
4 12 (8.57%) Agile
4 12 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 9 (6.43%) Microservices
6 9 (6.43%) Migration
7 8 (5.71%) ETL
7 8 (5.71%) TDD
8 7 (5.00%) Computer Science
8 7 (5.00%) Data Protection
8 7 (5.00%) DevOps
8 7 (5.00%) ERP
8 7 (5.00%) Web Development
9 6 (4.29%) Analytics
9 6 (4.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 45 (32.14%) SQL
2 27 (19.29%) Python
3 24 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 22 (15.71%) Java
5 21 (15.00%) C#
6 13 (9.29%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.00%) PHP
8 2 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.43%) Groovy
8 2 (1.43%) Perl
8 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.43%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.71%) ABAP
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) COBOL
9 1 (0.71%) Go
9 1 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (22.14%) Degree
2 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.71%) HL7
2 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) IAG
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.57%) Terraform
2 1 (0.71%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 24 (17.14%) PayPal
2 18 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.29%) SAP
4 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.14%) Oracle
6 2 (1.43%) IBM
6 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.71%) ICL
7 1 (0.71%) Informatica
7 1 (0.71%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.71%) Sybase
7 1 (0.71%) UiPath