Smart City Contracts in the Midlands

Smart Cities
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart City in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart City over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Smart City 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.039% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £502 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.15% -4.65% +7.50%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Smart City falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 924 776 945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.22% 28.82% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 484 608
10th Percentile £250 £250 £268
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £643 £738 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 22 36
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.10 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.78 £22.46
Median hourly rate £25.08 £20.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -25.45% +56.61%
75th Percentile £42.23 £45.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £85.63
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.82
% change year-on-year -35.90% +9.12% +76.23%

Smart City
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Smart City as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Smart City in the Midlands

Smart City
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Smart City

Smart City
DemandTrendContract 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 Smart City within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 4
Smart City
England

Smart City
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 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Twin
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes