Contingency Planning Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Contingency Planning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Contingency Planning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 111 119
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +55
Contract jobs citing Contingency Planning 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.21% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.26% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £426 £418 -
25th Percentile £457 £425 £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £775
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -41.94% +72.22%
75th Percentile £579 £475 £813
90th Percentile £614 £483 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Contingency Planning 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 1,618 1,560 1,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.76% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 995 1,188
10th Percentile £250 £252 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £674 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 39 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.66 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.25 £20.21
Median hourly rate £24.34 £26.13 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -5.00% +52.78%
75th Percentile £35.00 £40.25 £43.38
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% +53.98%

Contingency Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Contingency Planning in the West Midlands

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Contingency Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Contingency Planning

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contingency Planning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contingency Planning in the West Midlands

Contingency Planning
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 Contingency Planning within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Solihull - 2 £405 -
Warwickshire - 2 £625 - 1
Coventry - 1 - - 1
Contingency Planning
England

Contingency Planning
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (20.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Collibra
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cutover Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) ERP Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Services Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Budget Management
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (20.00%) Business Case
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (20.00%) Data Design
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Workday