Ahrefs
England > East Midlands
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Ahrefs products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ahrefs over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Ahrefs.
| 6 months to 19 Dec 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | - | 64 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract jobs citing Ahrefs | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands | - | - | 0.27% |
| As % of the Vendors category | - | - | 0.54% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | - |
| England median daily rate | £430 | - | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £13.00 |
| Median hourly rate | - | - | £14.00 |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £15.00 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| England median hourly rate | - | - | £14.00 |
All Vendors
East Midlands
Ahrefs falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the East Midlands.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services | 400 | 259 | 369 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands | 45.45% | 43.46% | 50.34% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 271 | 158 | 243 |
| 10th Percentile | £163 | £237 | £241 |
| 25th Percentile | £341 | £356 | £369 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £421 | £475 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -11.37% | - | +6.74% |
| 75th Percentile | £518 | £550 | £588 |
| 90th Percentile | £625 | £651 | £700 |
| England median daily rate | £510 | £525 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.86% | - | -2.78% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 35 | 12 | 22 |
| 10th Percentile | £16.25 | £14.70 | £11.27 |
| 25th Percentile | £16.35 | £16.53 | £13.00 |
| Median hourly rate | £21.25 | £17.00 | £15.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +25.00% | +9.68% | -11.73% |
| 75th Percentile | £25.15 | £21.80 | £27.49 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £52.68 | £88.75 |
| England median hourly rate | £23.83 | £31.00 | £45.00 |
| % change year-on-year | -23.15% | -31.11% | +73.08% |
Ahrefs
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ahrefs relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.
