Logistics Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Logistics
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Logistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 91 98
Rank change year-on-year -30 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Logistics 35 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.10% 0.36% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.41% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 6
10th Percentile £345 - £381
25th Percentile £493 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £844 £488 £688
90th Percentile £844 - £813
England median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £28.64 - -
25th Percentile £30.64 - £10.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 - £15.50
75th Percentile - - £22.09
90th Percentile - - £28.42
England median hourly rate £20.60 £31.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -33.56% +72.22% +69.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Logistics 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 2,640 1,213 1,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.31% 88.54% 83.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 795 1,061
10th Percentile £307 £195 £275
25th Percentile £403 £381 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £750
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 57 115
10th Percentile £14.82 - £11.09
25th Percentile £21.51 £12.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.83% -20.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile £67.84 £22.08 £40.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £39.14 £57.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

Logistics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Logistics job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Logistics
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Logistics
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Logistics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Logistics in the West Midlands

Logistics
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Logistics
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 Logistics within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Birmingham -12 12 £806 - 27
Warwickshire - 4 £800 - 7
Solihull - 3 £471 - 2
Shropshire - 3 £273 - 5
Staffordshire -2 2 £531 +11.84% 7
Coventry - 1 - - 4
Logistics
England

Logistics
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) SAP EWM
1 5 (14.29%) SAP MM
1 5 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (14.29%) SAP SD
2 3 (8.57%) SAP PP
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.86%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.86%) SAP QM
3 1 (2.86%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.86%) Lucidchart
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
2 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) JasperReports
2 1 (2.86%) Looker
2 1 (2.86%) Metadata
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Hudson
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Automotive
4 3 (8.57%) Legal
4 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Consultant
2 8 (22.86%) Analyst
3 7 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (17.14%) Architect
4 6 (17.14%) Business Analyst
5 5 (14.29%) Security Architect
6 4 (11.43%) SAP EWM Consultant
7 3 (8.57%) Logistics Analyst
7 3 (8.57%) Logistics Business Analyst
7 3 (8.57%) Senior
8 2 (5.71%) Chief Technology Officer
8 2 (5.71%) Coordinator
8 2 (5.71%) SAP PP Consultant
8 2 (5.71%) Senior User Experience Researcher
8 2 (5.71%) User Experience Researcher
9 1 (2.86%) Business Process Analyst
9 1 (2.86%) Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.86%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (2.86%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) REST
1 1 (2.86%) SAP TM
1 1 (2.86%) WebCenter
1 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.71%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) PMI
4 1 (2.86%) SCADA
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) AIX
2 1 (2.86%) Solaris
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (14.29%) Compliance Audit
3 5 (14.29%) ERP
4 4 (11.43%) Inventory Management
5 3 (8.57%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (8.57%) Agile
5 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.57%) Production Planning
5 3 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (8.57%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (5.71%) Analytics
6 2 (5.71%) Business Analysis
6 2 (5.71%) Data Management
6 2 (5.71%) Data Protection
6 2 (5.71%) Unit Testing
6 2 (5.71%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) SQL
2 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) SAP Certification
3 1 (2.86%) CAPM
3 1 (2.86%) CBAP
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (5.71%) PMO
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) ITGC
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) KVM
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Ansible
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Qualtrics
3 1 (2.86%) Epicor
3 1 (2.86%) IFS
3 1 (2.86%) Infor
3 1 (2.86%) Kronos
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) VMware