Collaborative Engineering Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Collaborative Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Collaborative Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 5 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 - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £438 £625 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Collaborative Engineering 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 3,331 1,662 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.59% 88.31% 82.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,116 1,127 1,505
10th Percentile £300 £200 £230
25th Percentile £400 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £651 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 74 180
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.12
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.64 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.17 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.86% -4.39% +7.34%
75th Percentile £27.50 £27.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £34.63 £55.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -13.33%

Collaborative Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Collaborative Engineering job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Collaborative Engineering
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 Collaborative Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 April 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 - 5 £425 - 7
Collaborative Engineering
England

Collaborative Engineering
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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (40.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (40.00%) DbUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) jMock
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 2 (40.00%) Mockito
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (40.00%) JPA
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) PowerMock
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Batch
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) SDET
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Biometrics
3 2 (40.00%) BPMN
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (40.00%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft