Calypso Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Calypso
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Calypso products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Calypso over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, 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 Calypso Technology.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Calypso 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.11% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £685 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +5.35% -3.70% -6.90%

All Vendors
West Midlands

Calypso 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 1,013 909 1,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.37% 48.25% 50.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 594 643
10th Percentile £263 £213 £214
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -6.57%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £656 £713 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 20
10th Percentile £15.71 £14.40 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.69 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.13 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% +13.59% +39.39%
75th Percentile £35.63 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.75 £43.40
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +85.42%

Calypso
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Calypso job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Calypso
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 Calypso within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Birmingham - 2 £525 -
Calypso
England

Calypso
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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Calypso Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Derivative
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible