Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Developer
England > Midlands

The median Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £453, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 180 309 386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.92% 11.17% 11.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.93% 12.15% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 231 320
10th Percentile £344 £259 £313
25th Percentile £388 £316 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £518 £525 £553
90th Percentile £586 £600 £625
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 1
10th Percentile - £22.50 -
25th Percentile £56.88 £26.25 £31.69
Median hourly rate £58.75 £40.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +46.88% +19.81% -26.22%
75th Percentile £60.63 £55.00 £35.08
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -19.23% - +18.18%

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 1,813 2,544 3,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 91.94% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,738 2,161
10th Percentile £200 £213 £228
25th Percentile £350 £336 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £455 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +3.78%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £594
90th Percentile £638 £683 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 226 110
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.18 £15.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.13 £20.41
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% -6.30% +16.63%
75th Percentile £29.04 £34.73 £29.50
90th Percentile £45.80 £52.45 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%

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 29 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 29 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 -6 122 £469 +10.29% 1,324
East Midlands -5 58 £413 -2.94% 971
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 77 (42.78%) Agile
2 58 (32.22%) SQL
3 50 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 48 (26.67%) Java
4 48 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 43 (23.89%) AWS
5 43 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (21.67%) DevOps
6 39 (21.67%) Microservices
6 39 (21.67%) Git
7 38 (21.11%) RESTful
7 38 (21.11%) Social Skills
8 37 (20.56%) Spring
9 35 (19.44%) REST
10 34 (18.89%) Docker
10 34 (18.89%) Scrum
11 32 (17.78%) TDD
12 31 (17.22%) Finance
12 31 (17.22%) Azure
13 30 (16.67%) Jenkins
13 30 (16.67%) Spring Boot
14 28 (15.56%) HTML
15 27 (15.00%) Web Services
16 26 (14.44%) Security Cleared
17 25 (13.89%) JUnit
18 24 (13.33%) Power Platform
19 23 (12.78%) CSS
20 22 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
20 22 (12.22%) Hibernate
20 22 (12.22%) Maven

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 7 (3.89%) Confluence
2 4 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.22%) Moodle
2 4 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.67%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (1.11%) Apache
4 2 (1.11%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.56%) Mule
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) BASE24
1 2 (1.11%) Magento
1 2 (1.11%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.11%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.11%) SAP ERP
1 2 (1.11%) SAP HR
1 2 (1.11%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.56%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 43 (23.89%) AWS
2 31 (17.22%) Azure
3 24 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 19 (10.56%) Amazon S3
5 18 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (9.44%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (8.33%) PowerApps
8 12 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (6.11%) AWS KMS
9 11 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.11%) Route 53
10 8 (4.44%) Serverless
11 7 (3.89%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.33%) GitHub
13 5 (2.78%) Azure API Management
13 5 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.78%) GCP
13 5 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.78%) HTTP
2 3 (1.67%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.67%) SSL
3 2 (1.11%) ATM
3 2 (1.11%) SAN
3 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (8.89%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (7.22%) DynamoDB
5 13 (7.22%) Power BI
6 10 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (3.33%) MySQL
9 5 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (2.22%) Big Data
10 4 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.22%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.22%) Power Query
10 4 (2.22%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.67%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 39 (21.67%) Git
2 30 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 25 (13.89%) JUnit
4 22 (12.22%) Maven
5 18 (10.00%) Mockito
6 15 (8.33%) SonarQube
7 14 (7.78%) JIRA
8 7 (3.89%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (3.89%) Gradle
8 7 (3.89%) Postman
9 6 (3.33%) DbUnit
9 6 (3.33%) jMock
10 4 (2.22%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.22%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.22%) GitLab
11 3 (1.67%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.67%) PHPUnit
11 3 (1.67%) Plastic SCM
11 3 (1.67%) Selenium
12 2 (1.11%) IntelliJ
General
1 38 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.22%) Finance
3 21 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.44%) Retail
6 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.22%) Games
7 4 (2.22%) Law
7 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Automotive
9 2 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Polish Language
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.11%) RESTful
2 37 (20.56%) Spring
3 35 (19.44%) REST
4 30 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 28 (15.56%) HTML
6 27 (15.00%) Web Services
7 23 (12.78%) CSS
8 22 (12.22%) Hibernate
9 19 (10.56%) .NET
9 19 (10.56%) AngularJS
9 19 (10.56%) React
9 19 (10.56%) SOAP
10 17 (9.44%) JPA
11 14 (7.78%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (7.78%) Spring Batch
12 12 (6.67%) Bootstrap
12 12 (6.67%) Spring Integration
13 10 (5.56%) Node.js
13 10 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
14 9 (5.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 10 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.22%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.67%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.67%) State Machine
4 3 (1.67%) VLE
5 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.11%) IVR
5 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.11%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.11%) Linux
2 9 (5.00%) Android
3 5 (2.78%) Unix
4 2 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.11%) Debian
4 2 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (42.78%) Agile
2 48 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 43 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (21.67%) DevOps
4 39 (21.67%) Microservices
5 34 (18.89%) Scrum
6 32 (17.78%) TDD
7 16 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (8.33%) Data Modelling
8 15 (8.33%) Test Automation
9 14 (7.78%) API Development
9 14 (7.78%) BDD
9 14 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (7.78%) Code Quality
9 14 (7.78%) Front End Development
9 14 (7.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (7.22%) Containerisation
10 13 (7.22%) ETL
11 12 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (32.22%) SQL
2 50 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 48 (26.67%) Java
4 20 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.00%) C#
5 18 (10.00%) Python
6 9 (5.00%) ABAP
6 9 (5.00%) PHP
7 8 (4.44%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (3.89%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.33%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.78%) COBOL
10 5 (2.78%) Scala
11 4 (2.22%) R
12 3 (1.67%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.67%) Ruby
12 3 (1.67%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.11%) Groovy
13 2 (1.11%) JSX
Qualifications
1 26 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.00%) Degree
4 6 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.11%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.78%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) PERC
System Software
1 34 (18.89%) Docker
2 7 (3.89%) Postfix
3 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.56%) Firmware
4 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.00%) Grafana
2 9 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.78%) Terraform
4 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.11%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (9.44%) Oracle
2 16 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.67%) SAP
4 8 (4.44%) Blue Prism
4 8 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (3.89%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.33%) Adobe
7 5 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.22%) Google
9 3 (1.67%) Databricks
10 2 (1.11%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.11%) IBM
10 2 (1.11%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.11%) Splunk
10 2 (1.11%) VMware
11 1 (0.56%) HP
11 1 (0.56%) Perforce
11 1 (0.56%) Teradata