Instructional Design Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Instructional Design
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Instructional Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Instructional Design 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
England median daily rate £425 £363 £475
% change year-on-year +17.24% -23.68% -29.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Instructional Design 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 2,197 1,296 1,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.19% 88.77% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 809 1,037
10th Percentile £290 £210 £275
25th Percentile £403 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 51 110
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £11.94
25th Percentile £16.21 £15.74 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.46 £20.24 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% -12.00% +29.94%
75th Percentile £26.98 £33.65 £48.75
90th Percentile £33.20 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Instructional Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Instructional Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Instructional Design
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Instructional Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Instructional Design

Instructional Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Instructional Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Instructional Design

Instructional Design
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 Instructional Design within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Staffordshire - 2 £350 -
Instructional Design
England

Instructional Design
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
General
1 2 (40.00%) Local Government
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Trainer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Trainer
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Trainer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) IT Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Trainer
3 1 (20.00%) Training Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) ERP
1 2 (40.00%) Line Management
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (40.00%) SAP