Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Developer
England > Midlands

The median Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £455, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 152 324 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.94% 11.75% 11.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.81% 12.80% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 225 325
10th Percentile £350 £259 £313
25th Percentile £393 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £519 £506 £553
90th Percentile £594 £595 £625
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £22.50 £37.35
25th Percentile £56.88 £26.25 £45.85
Median hourly rate £58.75 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.88% -33.33% +28.56%
75th Percentile £60.63 £55.00 £64.38
90th Percentile - £56.25 £67.00
England median hourly rate £61.00 £63.75 £61.25
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.08% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
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 Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands -9 109 £463 +8.82% 193
East Midlands -9 43 £425 +6.25% 116
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 61 (40.13%) Agile
2 48 (31.58%) SQL
3 46 (30.26%) JavaScript
4 33 (21.71%) Social Skills
5 32 (21.05%) Java
6 31 (20.39%) CI/CD
6 31 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (19.74%) DevOps
7 30 (19.74%) AWS
8 29 (19.08%) HTML
8 29 (19.08%) Power Platform
9 25 (16.45%) RESTful
10 24 (15.79%) CSS
11 23 (15.13%) Finance
11 23 (15.13%) Git
11 23 (15.13%) Microservices
12 22 (14.47%) Docker
13 21 (13.82%) TDD
14 20 (13.16%) Scrum
14 20 (13.16%) Security Cleared
14 20 (13.16%) Azure
14 20 (13.16%) Spring
14 20 (13.16%) TypeScript
15 19 (12.50%) PowerApps
16 18 (11.84%) REST
16 18 (11.84%) Microsoft
17 17 (11.18%) Jenkins
17 17 (11.18%) React
17 17 (11.18%) Spring Boot
18 16 (10.53%) Business Intelligence

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.95%) Confluence
3 4 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.63%) Moodle
4 2 (1.32%) Apache
4 2 (1.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) BASE24
1 2 (1.32%) Magento
1 2 (1.32%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.32%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 1 (0.66%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.66%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.66%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.74%) AWS
2 29 (19.08%) Power Platform
3 20 (13.16%) Azure
4 19 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 13 (8.55%) Power Automate
6 10 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (6.58%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.61%) GCP
9 6 (3.95%) AWS KMS
9 6 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.95%) Route 53
10 5 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.63%) Serverless
12 3 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.97%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.97%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) ATM
1 2 (1.32%) HTTP
1 2 (1.32%) SAN
1 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.87%) Power BI
2 12 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.24%) Relational Database
4 10 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.92%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.61%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.63%) Big Data
8 4 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (2.63%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.63%) MySQL
8 4 (2.63%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.63%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.97%) Power Query
9 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.32%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (15.13%) Git
2 17 (11.18%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.87%) JUnit
4 14 (9.21%) Maven
5 12 (7.89%) JIRA
6 11 (7.24%) Mockito
7 7 (4.61%) Postman
8 5 (3.29%) Gradle
8 5 (3.29%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.97%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.97%) GitLab
10 3 (1.97%) jMock
10 3 (1.97%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.97%) PHPUnit
10 3 (1.97%) Plastic SCM
10 3 (1.97%) Selenium
11 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.32%) CA Release Automation
General
1 33 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Finance
3 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.63%) Games
5 4 (2.63%) Law
6 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.97%) Retail
7 2 (1.32%) Automotive
7 2 (1.32%) Banking
8 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.66%) Police
8 1 (0.66%) Polish Language
8 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.08%) HTML
2 25 (16.45%) RESTful
3 24 (15.79%) CSS
4 20 (13.16%) Spring
5 18 (11.84%) REST
6 17 (11.18%) React
6 17 (11.18%) Spring Boot
7 14 (9.21%) Hibernate
7 14 (9.21%) Web Services
8 12 (7.89%) .NET
9 11 (7.24%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.24%) SOAP
10 9 (5.92%) jQuery
10 9 (5.92%) Node.js
11 7 (4.61%) Bootstrap
11 7 (4.61%) HTML5
11 7 (4.61%) JPA
11 7 (4.61%) JSON
11 7 (4.61%) Spring Integration
12 6 (3.95%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.61%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.97%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (1.97%) VLE
5 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.32%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.66%) CMDB
6 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.66%) Life Science
6 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.66%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.61%) Linux
2 5 (3.29%) Android
3 3 (1.97%) Unix
4 2 (1.32%) Debian
4 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.13%) Agile
2 31 (20.39%) CI/CD
2 31 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (19.74%) DevOps
4 23 (15.13%) Microservices
5 21 (13.82%) TDD
6 20 (13.16%) Scrum
7 16 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (9.87%) Data Modelling
8 15 (9.87%) Front End Development
8 15 (9.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (8.55%) Web Development
10 12 (7.89%) Test Automation
11 10 (6.58%) API Integration
11 10 (6.58%) BDD
11 10 (6.58%) Code Quality
11 10 (6.58%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (6.58%) Test Strategy
11 10 (6.58%) User Experience
12 9 (5.92%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.58%) SQL
2 46 (30.26%) JavaScript
3 32 (21.05%) Java
4 20 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.87%) Python
6 14 (9.21%) C#
7 9 (5.92%) PHP
8 8 (5.26%) ABAP
9 6 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (3.95%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.29%) COBOL
10 5 (3.29%) R
10 5 (3.29%) Scala
10 5 (3.29%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.63%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.97%) Ruby
13 2 (1.32%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.32%) Groovy
13 2 (1.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.26%) Degree
4 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.66%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) PERC
3 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (14.47%) Docker
2 4 (2.63%) Postfix
3 1 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.66%) Firmware
3 1 (0.66%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.29%) Terraform
3 4 (2.63%) Grafana
3 4 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.32%) Puppet
5 1 (0.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.24%) SAP
3 9 (5.92%) Oracle
4 5 (3.29%) Adobe
4 5 (3.29%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (2.63%) Blue Prism
5 4 (2.63%) Databricks
5 4 (2.63%) Google
5 4 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.97%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.32%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.32%) Splunk
7 2 (1.32%) UiPath
7 2 (1.32%) VMware
8 1 (0.66%) IFS
8 1 (0.66%) SendGrid
8 1 (0.66%) Veracode