Edge Computing Contracts in the Midlands

Edge Computing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Edge Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Edge Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 130 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs citing Edge Computing 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -
75th Percentile £725 £601 -
90th Percentile - £646 -
England median daily rate £515 £500 £850
% change year-on-year +3.00% -41.18% +34.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Edge Computing 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 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Edge Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Edge Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Edge Computing in the Midlands

Edge Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Edge Computing in the Midlands

Edge Computing
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 Edge Computing 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 +14 3 £650 +30.00%
Edge Computing
England

Edge Computing
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Modbus
1 2 (66.67%) MQTT
2 1 (33.33%) 5G
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) IoT Architect
2 1 (33.33%) IT Architect
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) NB-IoT
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Siemens