GoCD Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GoCD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GoCD 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.032% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - -
England median daily rate £505 - £465
% change year-on-year - - +8.64%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

GoCD falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 462 253 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.95% 10.08% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 176 155
10th Percentile £316 £345 £311
25th Percentile £405 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.11% -12.41%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £575
90th Percentile £653 £685 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £37.88 - £57.16
25th Percentile £40.69 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £46.25 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% -13.65% +4.46%
75th Percentile £52.69 £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £56.03 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

GoCD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

GoCD job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GoCD
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

GoCD
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 GoCD within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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 - 1 £505 -
GoCD
England

GoCD
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes