Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 125 212 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.31% 10.26% 10.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.16% 11.24% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 159 170
10th Percentile £350 £259 £325
25th Percentile £407 £313 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £440 £458
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -3.93% -3.58%
75th Percentile £512 £508 £570
90th Percentile £613 £611 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £38.75 -
25th Percentile £56.88 £40.13 £31.69
Median hourly rate £58.75 £49.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +19.90% +46.77% -42.58%
75th Percentile £60.63 £55.94 £35.08
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £40.30 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -38.01% +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,365 1,886 2,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 91.29% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 1,274 1,452
10th Percentile £203 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 140 59
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.92 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.59 £15.12
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -8.23% +18.31%
75th Percentile £33.91 £35.63 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.13 £54.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
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 Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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 -5 56 £475 +15.15% 73
Shropshire +7 22 £460 +28.49% 14
Solihull +18 11 £500 - 5
Warwickshire -22 11 £575 -0.86% 35
Coventry -11 5 £387 -13.94% 32
Staffordshire -2 4 £500 +42.86% 50
Herefordshire +16 3 £700 +40.00% 3
Worcestershire +1 2 £700 +55.56% 22
Wolverhampton - 2 £348 - 8
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 54 (43.20%) Agile
2 45 (36.00%) SQL
3 41 (32.80%) Java
4 34 (27.20%) AWS
4 34 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (26.40%) Social Skills
5 33 (26.40%) Microservices
6 32 (25.60%) DevOps
7 30 (24.00%) CI/CD
8 28 (22.40%) Docker
8 28 (22.40%) JavaScript
9 27 (21.60%) Spring
10 26 (20.80%) TDD
11 25 (20.00%) JUnit
11 25 (20.00%) Public Sector
12 24 (19.20%) RESTful
12 24 (19.20%) Git
13 23 (18.40%) Security Cleared
13 23 (18.40%) REST
13 23 (18.40%) Jenkins
13 23 (18.40%) Power Platform
14 22 (17.60%) Scrum
15 20 (16.00%) Maven
15 20 (16.00%) SC Cleared
15 20 (16.00%) Azure
16 19 (15.20%) Finance
16 19 (15.20%) Spring Boot
17 18 (14.40%) PostgreSQL
17 18 (14.40%) Web Services
17 18 (14.40%) Amazon S3

Developer Skill Set
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 (3.20%) Confluence
1 4 (3.20%) Moodle
1 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.60%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) SAP HR
1 3 (2.40%) SAP PSCD
2 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Magento
2 2 (1.60%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.80%) PeopleSoft Financials
Cloud Services
1 34 (27.20%) AWS
2 23 (18.40%) Power Platform
3 20 (16.00%) Azure
4 18 (14.40%) Amazon S3
5 17 (13.60%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (13.60%) PowerApps
6 16 (12.80%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (8.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (8.00%) AWS KMS
8 10 (8.00%) Route 53
9 8 (6.40%) Power Automate
9 8 (6.40%) Serverless
10 6 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.80%) GitHub
11 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.40%) Azure API Management
13 3 (2.40%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.40%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.60%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (9.60%) DynamoDB
4 12 (9.60%) Relational Database
5 11 (8.80%) MongoDB
5 11 (8.80%) Power BI
6 8 (6.40%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.80%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.60%) MySQL
10 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.60%) Tableau
11 1 (0.80%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.80%) Pentaho
11 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (20.00%) JUnit
2 24 (19.20%) Git
3 23 (18.40%) Jenkins
4 20 (16.00%) Maven
5 14 (11.20%) Mockito
6 11 (8.80%) SonarQube
7 9 (7.20%) JIRA
8 7 (5.60%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (5.60%) DbUnit
8 7 (5.60%) jMock
9 6 (4.80%) GitLab
10 5 (4.00%) Gradle
11 3 (2.40%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.40%) PHPUnit
11 3 (2.40%) Plastic SCM
11 3 (2.40%) Postman
12 2 (1.60%) Android Studio
12 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.60%) Xcode
13 1 (0.80%) NUnit
General
1 33 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 19 (15.20%) Finance
4 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.60%) Retail
6 5 (4.00%) Banking
6 5 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.20%) Games
8 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.40%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.60%) Law
9 2 (1.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.80%) Automotive
10 1 (0.80%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Polish Language
10 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.60%) Spring
2 24 (19.20%) RESTful
3 23 (18.40%) REST
4 19 (15.20%) Spring Boot
5 18 (14.40%) Web Services
6 16 (12.80%) .NET
6 16 (12.80%) SOAP
7 15 (12.00%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (11.20%) JPA
9 13 (10.40%) Hibernate
10 12 (9.60%) React
11 11 (8.80%) AngularJS
11 11 (8.80%) Bootstrap
11 11 (8.80%) Spring Batch
11 11 (8.80%) Spring Integration
12 10 (8.00%) HTML
12 10 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
13 8 (6.40%) Kafka
14 7 (5.60%) Gherkin
14 7 (5.60%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.40%) e-Learning
3 3 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.40%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.40%) VLE
4 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.60%) IVR
5 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.80%) AS400
5 1 (0.80%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.80%) CMDB
5 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.80%) IoT
5 1 (0.80%) iSeries
5 1 (0.80%) NHS
5 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.60%) Android
2 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.20%) Agile
2 34 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (26.40%) Microservices
4 32 (25.60%) DevOps
5 30 (24.00%) CI/CD
6 26 (20.80%) TDD
7 22 (17.60%) Scrum
8 16 (12.80%) SDLC
9 15 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (10.40%) BDD
11 12 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (8.80%) Containerisation
12 11 (8.80%) Workflow
13 10 (8.00%) Front End Development
13 10 (8.00%) Test Automation
13 10 (8.00%) Test Strategy
14 9 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (7.20%) CRM
14 9 (7.20%) Data Modelling
14 9 (7.20%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 45 (36.00%) SQL
2 41 (32.80%) Java
3 28 (22.40%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.00%) C#
5 13 (10.40%) Python
6 10 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.20%) PHP
8 4 (3.20%) R
8 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.40%) ABAP
9 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.60%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.60%) Go
10 2 (1.60%) JSX
10 2 (1.60%) Ruby
11 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.80%) RPG/400
11 1 (0.80%) Rust
11 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.60%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.60%) Degree
3 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) QA
2 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (22.40%) Docker
2 8 (6.40%) Postfix
3 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.00%) Grafana
2 10 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.40%) Terraform
4 2 (1.60%) Ansible
5 1 (0.80%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.20%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (6.40%) Atlassian
3 8 (6.40%) Blue Prism
4 5 (4.00%) Adobe
4 5 (4.00%) Oracle
4 5 (4.00%) SAP
5 4 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.60%) Google
6 2 (1.60%) IBM
7 1 (0.80%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.80%) Citrix
7 1 (0.80%) Databricks
7 1 (0.80%) IFS
7 1 (0.80%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.80%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.80%) Splunk
7 1 (0.80%) Sybase
7 1 (0.80%) UiPath