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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 93 94
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Logistics 37 8 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.15% 0.55% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.62% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 6
10th Percentile £350 - £381
25th Percentile £500 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +2.70% -3.90%
75th Percentile £844 £681 £688
90th Percentile - £798 £813
England median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £28.64 - -
25th Percentile £30.64 - £10.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £29.33 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% +89.23% -84.50%
75th Percentile - - £22.09
90th Percentile - - £28.42
England median hourly rate £19.03 £20.97 £19.36
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.33% +82.08%

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 2,712 1,286 1,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.57% 88.69% 82.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,770 815 1,106
10th Percentile £313 £202 £263
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -2.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £660 £731
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 72 118
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.32 £14.31
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £66.54 £31.19 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -16 13 £800 - 15
Warwickshire -13 4 £220 - 5
Solihull - 3 £471 - 1
Worcestershire -1 2 - - 9
Walsall - 2 £600 - 2
Shropshire - 2 £238 - 3
Staffordshire -4 1 £513 +7.89% 9
Coventry - 1 - - 3
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 1 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.11%) MS Visio
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) SAP EWM
1 5 (13.51%) SAP MM
1 5 (13.51%) SAP SD
2 3 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.70%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.70%) SAP PP
3 1 (2.70%) SAP QM
3 1 (2.70%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) AWS
1 1 (2.70%) Azure
1 1 (2.70%) GCP
1 1 (2.70%) Lucidchart
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
1 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
1 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) JasperReports
1 1 (2.70%) Looker
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
1 1 (2.70%) Tableau
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Retail
5 3 (8.11%) Automotive
5 3 (8.11%) Legal
6 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Business Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Consultant
3 5 (13.51%) SAP Consultant
3 5 (13.51%) Security Architect
4 4 (10.81%) SAP EWM Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Logistics Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Logistics Business Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) SAP Trainer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Trainer
6 2 (5.41%) Chief Technology Officer
6 2 (5.41%) Coordinator
6 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior User Experience Researcher
6 2 (5.41%) User Experience Researcher
7 1 (2.70%) Report Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Senior Project Coordinator
7 1 (2.70%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Operational Technology
2 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.41%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.41%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) PMI
3 1 (2.70%) SCADA
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) AIX
2 1 (2.70%) Solaris
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (18.92%) Workshop Facilitation
2 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (13.51%) Compliance Audit
3 5 (13.51%) Inventory Management
3 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.81%) Agile
5 3 (8.11%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.11%) Production Planning
5 3 (8.11%) Project Management
5 3 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (8.11%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
5 3 (8.11%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (5.41%) Customer Service
6 2 (5.41%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (5.41%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (5.41%) User Research
6 2 (5.41%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) SAP Certification
3 1 (2.70%) CAPM
3 1 (2.70%) CBAP
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) KVM
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) SAP
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Qualtrics
4 1 (2.70%) Infor
4 1 (2.70%) Kronos
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) VMware