Drush Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Drush
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Drush skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Drush 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.064% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

Drush falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 635 423 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.40% 18.12% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 272 283
10th Percentile £360 £350 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 7
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.35
25th Percentile £25.12 £26.25 £19.16
Median hourly rate £38.61 £27.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% -9.84% +55.10%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £49.88
90th Percentile £63.63 - £59.60
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Drush
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Drush job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Drush
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 Drush within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 - 2 - - 1
Drush
England

Drush
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 (100.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Defects
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google