X++ Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

X++
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring X++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing X++ 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.16% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £480 £455 £519
% change year-on-year +5.49% -12.29% -1.19%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

X++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 741 586 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.97% 23.36% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 368 434
10th Percentile £357 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £391 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £688
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile £21.44 £16.78 £17.35
25th Percentile £36.00 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +133.97% +9.59% -24.51%
75th Percentile - £30.31 £54.00
90th Percentile - £50.75 £54.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

X++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

X++ job vacancy trend in the Midlands

X++
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing X++

X++
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 X++ within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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 - 5 £550 -
X++
England

X++
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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 5 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Presales
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft