Bill of Materials Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Bill of Materials
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Bill of Materials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 138 128
Rank change year-on-year -50 -10 -
Contract jobs citing Bill of Materials 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.064% 0.041% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.047% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Bill of Materials 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 3,907 2,150 2,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.34% 87.65% 80.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,394 1,383 1,478
10th Percentile £306 £214 £270
25th Percentile £405 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £639 £698
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 176 108
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.62 £12.62
25th Percentile £17.24 £16.13 £14.09
Median hourly rate £25.48 £21.39 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% +16.19% -33.05%
75th Percentile £44.53 £26.69 £37.50
90th Percentile £69.78 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

Bill of Materials
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Bill of Materials job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Bill of Materials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Bill of Materials

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Bill of Materials.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Bill of Materials

Bill of Materials
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 Bill of Materials within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 August 2026. 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
West Midlands -60 3 £375 - 5
Bill of Materials
England

Bill of Materials
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) 5G
1 3 (100.00%) 802.11
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Predictive Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CWDP
1 3 (100.00%) CWNA
1 3 (100.00%) CWNE
1 3 (100.00%) CWSP
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Aruba
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Ekahau