Backends for Frontends Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.039% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 - -
75th Percentile £496 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% -18.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Backends for Frontends 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 2,167 1,301 1,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.15% 88.93% 83.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 815 1,040
10th Percentile £279 £210 £263
25th Percentile £402 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 49 108
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.66 £11.81
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.22 £16.89
Median hourly rate £21.46 £21.59 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -6.13% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Backends for Frontends
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 Backends for Frontends within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Warwickshire - 1 £489 -
Backends for Frontends
England

Backends for Frontends
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Bitrise
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) XCTest
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (100.00%) UIKit
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Async-Await
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Telematics
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Swift