Backtesting Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Backtesting
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Backtesting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backtesting 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £539 £800 £900
% change year-on-year -32.69% -11.11% +18.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Backtesting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,732 1,993 2,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.24% 86.58% 84.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,708 1,254 1,492
10th Percentile £249 £250 £251
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £589
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 71 92
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.97
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -4.35% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.91 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

Backtesting
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backtesting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Backtesting job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Backtesting
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Backtesting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Backtesting

Backtesting
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backtesting within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands - 4 £402 - 2
Backtesting
England

Backtesting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Aerospike
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Database Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) pytest
3 2 (50.00%) PySpark
4 1 (25.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 4 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks