Development Director Contracts in Birmingham

Development Director
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Development Director daily rate in Birmingham is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 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
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Development Director 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £800 - -

All DemandTrendContract 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 519 674 828
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.48% 95.33% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 454 561
10th Percentile £166 £207 £263
25th Percentile £327 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £539 £623 £600
90th Percentile £639 £725 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 32
10th Percentile - £14.00 £13.74
25th Percentile £12.62 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 £26.13 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.41% +20.11% +20.83%
75th Percentile £25.04 £52.50 £65.63
90th Percentile £32.57 £56.25 £69.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £21.50
% change year-on-year +28.38% -8.88% +19.44%

Development Director
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Director in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 2025, Development Director 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 Development Director in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) TestDirector
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Development Director 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) TestDirector
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SLA