Asset Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Asset Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Asset Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 89 83
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 +68
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 28 22 39
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.52% 1.17% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.42% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 29
10th Percentile £107 £188 £323
25th Percentile £183 £266 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +2.78% +95.65%
75th Percentile £699 £581 £600
90th Percentile £725 £629 £725
England median daily rate £600 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.27
25th Percentile £18.22 - £17.43
Median hourly rate £18.44 - £19.61
75th Percentile £18.65 - £21.54
90th Percentile - - £22.55
England median hourly rate £18.87 £17.16 £19.06
% change year-on-year +9.97% -9.97% +12.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Asset Management 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,641 1,545 1,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.33% 82.49% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 970 1,190
10th Percentile £250 £230 £263
25th Percentile £400 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 38 54
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.83
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £20.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -8.54% +56.16%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £46.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.85 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +43.55%

Asset Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Asset Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Asset Management in the West Midlands

Asset Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Asset Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Asset Management

Asset Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Asset Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Asset Management in the West Midlands

Asset Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Asset Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Asset Management

Asset Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Asset Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Warwickshire +1 12 £650 +44.44% 2
Birmingham 0 7 £107 -78.60% 7
Coventry -3 7 £400 +88.24%
Wolverhampton - 1 £138 -
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Asset Management
England

Asset Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP PM
2 1 (3.57%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (7.14%) Collibra
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (7.14%) PaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) BIG-IP
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) GIS
1 4 (14.29%) Metadata
2 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Software Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Audio Visual Technician
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
2 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Specialist
2 4 (14.29%) Software Licensing Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Software Licensing Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Data Migration Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) GIS Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Migration Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Author
4 1 (3.57%) Programme Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Author
4 1 (3.57%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 2 (7.14%) IoT
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) SCADA
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Migration
2 8 (28.57%) Agile
3 5 (17.86%) Data Governance
3 5 (17.86%) ITIL
3 5 (17.86%) ITSM
3 5 (17.86%) Software Asset Management
4 4 (14.29%) Software Licensing
5 3 (10.71%) Data Management
5 3 (10.71%) Data Migration
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.71%) Load Balancing
5 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
6 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (7.14%) Business Continuity
6 2 (7.14%) Change Management
6 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis
6 2 (7.14%) Data Mapping
6 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (7.14%) TOGAF
6 2 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.14%) Java
3 2 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.57%) CPIM
3 1 (3.57%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) IBM
2 6 (21.43%) Oracle
3 4 (14.29%) Adobe
3 4 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco
3 4 (14.29%) F5
3 4 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) ESRI
4 2 (7.14%) Informatica
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) Computacenter
5 1 (3.57%) Dell
5 1 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (3.57%) Infor
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce