IFS Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

IFS
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire requiring knowledge or experience of IFS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFS over the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IFS AB.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IFS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.41% - -
As % of the Vendors category 2.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - £500

All Vendors
Staffordshire

IFS falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 37 24 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 52.11% 30.00% 45.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 41
10th Percentile £186 £217 £200
25th Percentile £207 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £419 £488 £538
90th Percentile £575 £510 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £14.33
25th Percentile - £46.25 £14.71
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £19.30
Median % change year-on-year - +146.08% -61.01%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £23.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.93% +4.89% +26.98%

IFS
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

IFS job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

IFS
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing IFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing IFS

IFS
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IFS within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Stafford - 1 £550 -
IFS
West Midlands

IFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) IFS Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL