Instructional Design Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Instructional Design
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Instructional Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Instructional Design 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
England median daily rate £425 £363 £475
% change year-on-year +17.24% -23.68% -29.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Instructional Design 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 3,033 1,839 2,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.01% 88.24% 83.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,890 1,151 1,510
10th Percentile £262 £213 £219
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% +3.79% -1.04%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £653 £689 £681
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 73 172
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.66 £11.78
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.67 £14.68
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -3.11% +32.40%
75th Percentile £25.13 £31.76 £44.69
90th Percentile £30.10 £51.75 £59.88
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Instructional Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Instructional Design job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Instructional Design
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Instructional Design

Instructional Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Instructional Design

Instructional Design
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 Instructional Design within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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 - 5 £350 - 2
East Midlands - 3 - - 2
Instructional Design
England

Instructional Design
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:

Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
General
1 3 (37.50%) Legal
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Local Government
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Trainer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Trainer
3 3 (37.50%) Legal IT Trainer
4 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Trainer
5 1 (12.50%) Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) IT Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (12.50%) SAP Trainer
5 1 (12.50%) Training Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) e-Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 3 (37.50%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (25.00%) ERP
1 2 (25.00%) Line Management
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) iManage
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (25.00%) SAP