Work Breakdown Structure Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Work Breakdown Structure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Work Breakdown Structure 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £585 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 - -
75th Percentile £595 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £760 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 58 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 78.89% 87.88% 84.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 63
10th Percentile £183 £140 £209
25th Percentile £300 £150 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £450 £497 £469
90th Percentile £575 £553 £535
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 8
10th Percentile - £12.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £13.10 £15.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £18.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -55.00% +60.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £20.24 £51.25
90th Percentile - £24.22 £56.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.98 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.42% -19.42% +21.62%

Work Breakdown Structure
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Work Breakdown Structure job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Work Breakdown Structure
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 Work Breakdown Structure within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £590 -
Work Breakdown Structure
West Midlands

Work Breakdown Structure
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Boomi
1 1 (100.00%) Smartsheet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) BAPI
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow