Contract Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Contract Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Contract Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contract Management 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 83 100 125
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +44
Contract jobs citing Contract Management 14 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.56% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.67% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 9
10th Percentile - £325 £513
25th Percentile £363 £391 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% -10.87% +53.33%
75th Percentile £656 £569 £738
90th Percentile £788 £685 -
England median daily rate £535 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £24.22 £35.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -30.80% +56.18% -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £47.63
% change year-on-year -14.29% -26.51% +51.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Contract Management 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%

Contract Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Contract Management in the West Midlands

Contract Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Contract Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Contract Management in the West Midlands

Contract Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Contract Management in the West Midlands

Contract Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Contract Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Contract Management in the West Midlands

Contract Management
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 Contract Management 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 +22 7 £400 -13.51% 11
Warwickshire +3 5 £375 -28.57% 2
Staffordshire +1 1 - - 6
Contract Management
England

Contract Management
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 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Business Manager
1 4 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Performance Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Project Officer
2 3 (21.43%) Project Support Officer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Support Officer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Report Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Commercial Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Support
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Commercial Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) PMI
2 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Project Management
1 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (28.57%) Budgeting
2 4 (28.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 4 (28.57%) ERP
2 4 (28.57%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Change Control
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 2 (14.29%) SIEM
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (14.29%) CCSP
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) MRICS
3 1 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) TOWER Software
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba
3 1 (7.14%) Concur
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) SAP