Onboarding Contracts in Birmingham

Onboarding
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 51 68
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +20
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 13 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.55% 1.49% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.97% 5.21% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 7
10th Percentile £375 £310 £385
25th Percentile £519 £394 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £525
90th Percentile £600 £554 £620
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 145 211 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.49% 28.67% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 134 190
10th Percentile £160 £263 £346
25th Percentile £313 £358 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £488 £511
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -4.65% +5.63%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £642
90th Percentile £650 £750 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -0.73% +3.25% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 13
10th Percentile - £18.88 £15.65
25th Percentile - £22.33 £20.22
Median hourly rate £44.00 £26.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -5.45% +58.50%
75th Percentile - £40.81 £30.00
90th Percentile - £54.80 £88.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +25.24% -18.18% +69.96%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in Birmingham

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in Birmingham

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Birmingham over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Birmingham

Onboarding
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Snowflake
3 1 (7.69%) Apigee
3 1 (7.69%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Apigee Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Developer
2 1 (7.69%) HR Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) HR Business Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Operations Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Change Management
1 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
1 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (15.38%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (7.69%) Agile
2 1 (7.69%) API Management
2 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
2 1 (7.69%) Budgeting
2 1 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (7.69%) ITSM
2 1 (7.69%) Kanban
2 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (7.69%) Observability
2 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (7.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
1 4 (30.77%) Virgin Media
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Juniper
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) VMware