Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Commercial Awareness
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 109 119
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +58
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 14 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.76% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £437 - £443
25th Percentile £503 £909 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £918 £525
Median % change year-on-year -43.35% +74.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £527 £926 £556
90th Percentile £553 - £568
England median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.75 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.89 £28.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +24.59% -53.33% +471.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Commercial Awareness 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 1,651 1,557 1,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.34% 82.60% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 980 1,178
10th Percentile £250 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £683 £725 £725
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 39 54
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.83
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £20.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £46.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in the West Midlands

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Commercial Awareness
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 Commercial Awareness within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Shropshire -11 9 £520 - 1
Warwickshire - 3 - - 2
Staffordshire - 1 - - 4
Commercial Awareness
England

Commercial Awareness
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:

Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Billing
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Engagement Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Innovation Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) Requirements Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Project Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Resource Management
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Business Case
3 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Conflict Management
4 2 (14.29%) Line Management
4 2 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (14.29%) Project Governance
4 2 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.14%) UX Design
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Consul
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
1 1 (7.14%) Splunk