jMock Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

jMock
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring jMock skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 129 -
Rank change year-on-year -44 - -
Contract jobs citing jMock 13 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.28% 0.29% -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.98% 2.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 -
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

jMock 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 657 336 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.03% 13.81% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 249 203
10th Percentile £350 £270 £307
25th Percentile £405 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £523 £500 £550
90th Percentile £578 £575 £637
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 10
10th Percentile £14.73 £21.86 £10.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.34 £55.31
Median hourly rate £51.08 £37.35 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% -34.33% +58.24%
75th Percentile £75.00 £48.24 £58.75
90th Percentile - £54.25 £60.38
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

jMock
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

jMock job vacancy trend in the Midlands

jMock
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

jMock
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 jMock within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -47 13 £475 -5.00% 1
jMock
England

jMock
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 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 13 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 13 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 13 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 13 (100.00%) Route 53
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 13 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 13 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) DbUnit
1 13 (100.00%) Git
1 13 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 13 (100.00%) JUnit
1 13 (100.00%) Maven
1 13 (100.00%) Mockito
1 13 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 11 (84.62%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 13 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (69.23%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
1 13 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 13 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 13 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 13 (100.00%) JPA
1 13 (100.00%) PowerMock
1 13 (100.00%) REST
1 13 (100.00%) SOAP
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
1 13 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 13 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 13 (100.00%) Spring Integration
1 13 (100.00%) Web Services
2 12 (92.31%) Spring Cloud
3 11 (84.62%) Bootstrap
3 11 (84.62%) RESTful
4 8 (61.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 13 (100.00%) Microservices
1 13 (100.00%) Scrum
1 13 (100.00%) TDD
2 11 (84.62%) BDD
2 11 (84.62%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (84.62%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) Kanban
2 11 (84.62%) Open Source
3 9 (69.23%) Decision-Making
3 9 (69.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (61.54%) BPMN
5 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
6 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (38.46%) Biometrics
8 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
9 2 (15.38%) Database Tuning
9 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
9 2 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (84.62%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Docker
2 11 (84.62%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Grafana
2 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 13 (100.00%) Jaspersoft