Developer Contracts in Birmingham

Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Developer daily rate in Birmingham is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 41 141 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.85% 18.24% 12.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.76% 19.72% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 95 90
10th Percentile £363 £238 £313
25th Percentile £388 £260 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £513 £494 £588
90th Percentile £588 £575 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £38.75 -
25th Percentile £56.88 £40.13 £31.69
Median hourly rate £58.75 £49.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +19.90% +46.77% -
75th Percentile £60.63 £55.94 £35.08
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.75 £49.00 £33.39
% change year-on-year +19.90% +46.77% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

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 1 May 2025.

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 14 (34.15%) SQL
2 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (26.83%) Power Platform
4 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (21.95%) Finance
4 9 (21.95%) RESTful
5 8 (19.51%) Visualisation
5 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.51%) Power BI
6 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
6 7 (17.07%) Java
6 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
7 6 (14.63%) SAP
7 6 (14.63%) Python
7 6 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (14.63%) AWS
7 6 (14.63%) Agile
7 6 (14.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 5 (12.20%) PowerApps
8 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
8 5 (12.20%) Power Automate
8 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
8 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (12.20%) Spring
8 5 (12.20%) Degree
8 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.20%) SOAP
9 4 (9.76%) Scrum
9 4 (9.76%) Adobe

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 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Magento
1 2 (4.88%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) Power Platform
2 6 (14.63%) AWS
3 5 (12.20%) Power Automate
3 5 (12.20%) PowerApps
4 3 (7.32%) Azure
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.44%) Apigee
6 1 (2.44%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.44%) Datadog
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
6 1 (2.44%) Route 53
6 1 (2.44%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) Power BI
2 4 (9.76%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.88%) Power Query
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.44%) Pentaho
5 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.44%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) JUnit
1 4 (9.76%) Maven
1 4 (9.76%) Mockito
2 3 (7.32%) Cucumber
2 3 (7.32%) Gradle
2 3 (7.32%) Postman
3 2 (4.88%) Git
3 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) Ant
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.44%) DbUnit
4 1 (2.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) jMock
4 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Finance
3 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.88%) Law
5 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Games
6 1 (2.44%) Police
6 1 (2.44%) Polish Language
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) RESTful
2 5 (12.20%) SOAP
2 5 (12.20%) Spring
3 4 (9.76%) CSS
3 4 (9.76%) HTML
3 4 (9.76%) REST
4 3 (7.32%) .NET
4 3 (7.32%) CSS3
4 3 (7.32%) HTML5
4 3 (7.32%) IDoc
4 3 (7.32%) Web Services
5 2 (4.88%) Ajax
5 2 (4.88%) BAPI
5 2 (4.88%) J2EE
5 2 (4.88%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (4.88%) Next.js
5 2 (4.88%) Node.js
5 2 (4.88%) RequireJS
5 2 (4.88%) SAP Smart Forms
5 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.44%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.44%) CMDB
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.44%) NHS
2 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (19.51%) Visualisation
3 6 (14.63%) Agile
3 6 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (14.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
4 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
5 4 (9.76%) Data Analysis
5 4 (9.76%) Data Modelling
5 4 (9.76%) DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) Front End Development
5 4 (9.76%) Scrum
5 4 (9.76%) TDD
6 3 (7.32%) Data Extraction
6 3 (7.32%) ERP
6 3 (7.32%) OO
6 3 (7.32%) Project Management
6 3 (7.32%) Web Development
6 3 (7.32%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) SQL
2 7 (17.07%) Java
2 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.63%) Python
4 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (9.76%) ABAP
5 4 (9.76%) C#
6 3 (7.32%) COBOL
7 2 (4.88%) Ruby
7 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.88%) VB
7 2 (4.88%) VBA
8 1 (2.44%) Groovy
8 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.44%) R
8 1 (2.44%) Rust
8 1 (2.44%) Scala
8 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) SAP Certification
4 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
1 1 (2.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Grafana
1 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) SAP
3 4 (9.76%) Adobe
3 4 (9.76%) Blue Prism
4 2 (4.88%) UiPath
5 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.44%) Databricks
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) IFS
5 1 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.44%) SendGrid
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk
5 1 (2.44%) Sybase