Work Breakdown Structure Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Work Breakdown Structure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 - 135
Rank change year-on-year - - +57
Contract jobs citing Work Breakdown Structure 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.065% - 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £248 - -
25th Percentile £300 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile £500 - £588
90th Percentile £553 - -
England median daily rate £575 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +3.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Work Breakdown Structure 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 2,688 2,148 2,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.39% 84.67% 84.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 1,320 1,548
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £369 £375 £376
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 £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £19.75 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Work Breakdown Structure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Work Breakdown Structure job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Work Breakdown Structure
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Work Breakdown Structure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Work Breakdown Structure

Work Breakdown Structure
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Work Breakdown Structure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Work Breakdown Structure in the Midlands

Work Breakdown Structure
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Work Breakdown Structure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Work Breakdown Structure

Work Breakdown Structure
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 Work Breakdown Structure within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
East Midlands - 1 £225 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £575 - 2
Work Breakdown Structure
England

Work Breakdown Structure
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP PS
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Functional Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP PS Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP