SLSA Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SLSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SLSA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.25% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £541 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 - -
75th Percentile £564 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £554 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

SLSA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 154 150 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.30% 23.29% 18.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 93 95
10th Percentile £413 £384 £279
25th Percentile £475 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £567 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +19.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £614 £694 £575
90th Percentile £687 £748 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.80 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.13 - -
90th Percentile £71.60 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.38
% change year-on-year -1.05% +58.27% -

SLSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) SBOM
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Attestation
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype