Drupal Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Drupal
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Drupal skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Drupal 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.11% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £600 £420 £350
% change year-on-year +42.86% +20.00% -26.32%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

Drupal falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 481 193 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.42% 9.40% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 118 135
10th Percentile £301 £205 £153
25th Percentile £402 £336 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £434 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.15% +8.53% -15.79%
75th Percentile £537 £511 £572
90th Percentile £583 £575 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 9
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.55 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.88 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £27.21 £20.24 £19.25
90th Percentile - £25.64 £24.03
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year -39.53% +74.76% +17.05%

Drupal
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Drupal job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Drupal
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Drupal
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Drupal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Drupal

Drupal
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 Drupal within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 February 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 - 4 £600 -
Drupal
England

Drupal
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 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Drush
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile First
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scorecard
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Defects
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google