Bill of Materials Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Bill of Materials
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Bill of Materials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 109 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Contract jobs citing Bill of Materials 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.086% 0.061% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.069% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Bill of Materials 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 2,988 1,458 1,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.94% 88.26% 81.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,924 917 1,036
10th Percentile £313 £217 £294
25th Percentile £406 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £655 £738
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 106 67
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.31 £14.01 £14.19
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.42 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.13% +26.59% -32.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.16 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

Bill of Materials
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bill of Materials relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Bill of Materials job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Bill of Materials
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bill of Materials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bill of Materials

Bill of Materials
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bill of Materials.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bill of Materials

Bill of Materials
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 Bill of Materials within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 August 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 - 3 £375 - 1
Bill of Materials
England

Bill of Materials
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) 5G
1 3 (100.00%) 802.11
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Predictive Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CWDP
1 3 (100.00%) CWNA
1 3 (100.00%) CWNE
1 3 (100.00%) CWSP
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Aruba
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Ekahau