Cadence Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cadence
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Cadence products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cadence over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 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 Cadence Design Systems.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cadence 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.044% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.084% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £707 - -
England median daily rate £707 £405 £560
% change year-on-year +74.57% -27.68% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

Cadence 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,192 764 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 52.14% 48.97% 47.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 492 516
10th Percentile £263 £210 £209
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £582 £611 £600
90th Percentile £650 £724 £684
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 23
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.18 £15.30
25th Percentile £17.39 £18.13 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.60 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +2.61% +35.81%
75th Percentile £27.91 £30.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £59.49 £35.00 £42.35
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -20.83% -31.57% +51.16%

Cadence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Cadence job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cadence
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Cadence
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 Cadence within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Birmingham - 1 £707 -
Cadence
England

Cadence
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation