Target Operating Model Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Target Operating Model (TOM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Target Operating Model skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 127 127
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 +68
Contract jobs citing Target Operating Model 3 8 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.10% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.36% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 10
10th Percentile - £518 £559
25th Percentile £463 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £644
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -6.80% +26.23%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £716
90th Percentile £808 £646 £798
England median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Target Operating Model 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 2,625 2,241 2,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.26% 83.71% 84.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 1,408 1,590
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £363 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £700
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 69 107
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.40 £17.00 £17.61
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -11.11% +59.13%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.57 £53.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

Target Operating Model
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Target Operating Model job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Target Operating Model
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Target Operating Model.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Target Operating Model

Target Operating Model
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Target Operating Model in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Target Operating Model in the Midlands

Target Operating Model
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 Target Operating Model within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 November 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 -34 3 £475 -20.83% 4
Target Operating Model
England

Target Operating Model
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 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (66.67%) Case Management
1 2 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
1 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft