Collaborative Working Contracts in the West Midlands

Collaborative Working
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 78 104
Rank change year-on-year +38 +26 -13
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 59 33 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.39% 1.69% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 2.02% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 19 29
10th Percentile £163 £354 £286
25th Percentile £200 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £466
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.66% -7.26%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £550
90th Percentile £644 £758 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £18.65 - -
25th Percentile £18.88 £15.13 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.90 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% - -
75th Percentile £19.88 £16.67 -
90th Percentile £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -57.00% -1.96% +163.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Collaborative Working 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 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the West Midlands

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the West Midlands

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the West Midlands

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the West Midlands

Collaborative Working
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 Collaborative Working within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +29 26 £450 +5.88% 43
Warwickshire +7 12 £525 -16.00% 17
Shropshire +3 7 £444 +26.79% 8
Coventry - 5 £268 - 14
Staffordshire +2 3 £475 -5.00% 37
Solihull +15 1 - - 6
Worcestershire - 1 - - 9
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
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 4 (6.78%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.69%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.69%) SAP EP
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.69%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.17%) Azure
2 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (5.08%) AWS
3 3 (5.08%) AWS KMS
3 3 (5.08%) Route 53
4 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.69%) Akamai
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.69%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) BGP
1 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) IPv4
1 1 (1.69%) MPLS
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
1 1 (1.69%) OSPF
1 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Power BI
2 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.08%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.47%) JIRA
3 3 (5.08%) Git
3 3 (5.08%) GitLab
3 3 (5.08%) JMeter
3 3 (5.08%) JUnit
3 3 (5.08%) Mockito
3 3 (5.08%) Postman
3 3 (5.08%) REST Assured
3 3 (5.08%) Selenium
3 3 (5.08%) TestNG
3 3 (5.08%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.69%) Pa11y
General
1 44 (74.58%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.81%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Legal
5 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.39%) Law
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.39%) Retail
7 1 (1.69%) Back Office
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Local Government
7 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Analyst
2 7 (11.86%) Developer
3 6 (10.17%) Deployment Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Architect
4 4 (6.78%) Change Analyst
4 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.08%) Business Change Analyst
5 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) IT Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) IT Manager
5 3 (5.08%) Tester
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Business Manager
6 2 (3.39%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.39%) IT Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Junior
6 2 (3.39%) Performance Manager
6 2 (3.39%) Programmer
6 2 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Spring
2 3 (5.08%) Hibernate
2 3 (5.08%) HTML
2 3 (5.08%) jQuery
2 3 (5.08%) REST
2 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.08%) Web Services
2 3 (5.08%) WireMock
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.69%) Play Framework
3 1 (1.69%) React
3 1 (1.69%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.69%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.69%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.69%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Operational Technology
2 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.39%) Device Driver
3 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) AS400
4 1 (1.69%) iSeries
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) PKI
4 1 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Windows
2 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (20.34%) Agile
2 12 (20.34%) Computer Science
3 9 (15.25%) ITIL
3 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (13.56%) CI/CD
4 8 (13.56%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (11.86%) Change Management
5 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
6 6 (10.17%) Project Delivery
7 5 (8.47%) Business Analysis
7 5 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (8.47%) Data Analysis
7 5 (8.47%) Decision-Making
7 5 (8.47%) ERP
7 5 (8.47%) Project Management
8 4 (6.78%) Analytics
8 4 (6.78%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (6.78%) Functional Testing
8 4 (6.78%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.25%) Python
2 5 (8.47%) Java
3 3 (5.08%) Bash
3 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.08%) SQL
4 1 (1.69%) ABAP
4 1 (1.69%) RPG
4 1 (1.69%) RPG/400
4 1 (1.69%) Scala
4 1 (1.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (10.17%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) MCSE
2 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) CISSP
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) CEH
5 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.69%) ACCA
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.69%) CBAP
6 1 (1.69%) CCNP
6 1 (1.69%) CIMA
6 1 (1.69%) CIPFA
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.69%) CISM
6 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.69%) GIAC
6 1 (1.69%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) GRC
2 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.69%) PMO
2 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) SCCM
3 3 (5.08%) Kibana
4 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.08%) Cisco
2 3 (5.08%) Databricks
2 3 (5.08%) SAP
3 2 (3.39%) Ariba
4 1 (1.69%) Adobe
4 1 (1.69%) BMC
4 1 (1.69%) Civica
4 1 (1.69%) F5
4 1 (1.69%) Huawei
4 1 (1.69%) IBM
4 1 (1.69%) Imperva
4 1 (1.69%) Okta
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) Qualys
4 1 (1.69%) Remedy
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.69%) VMware