Notepad++ Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Notepad++
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Notepad++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Notepad++ 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.068% - -
As % of the Applications category 1.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £433 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - -
75th Percentile £468 - -
90th Percentile £469 - -
England median daily rate £456 £285 -
% change year-on-year +60.19% - -

All Software Application Skills
West Midlands

Notepad++ falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 168 132 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.74% 9.98% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 88 86
10th Percentile £239 £200 £156
25th Percentile £304 £235 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £313
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +35.78% -25.48%
75th Percentile £492 £528 £509
90th Percentile £580 £550 £650
England median daily rate £450 £423 £400
% change year-on-year +6.51% +5.63% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 31
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.09 £10.93
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £12.18
Median hourly rate £25.00 £15.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -42.31% +40.54%
75th Percentile - £18.74 £38.13
90th Percentile £30.91 £29.88 £58.75
England median hourly rate £19.91 £26.34 £18.00
% change year-on-year -24.40% +46.31% -45.04%

Notepad++
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 Notepad++ within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Shropshire - 2 £456 -
Notepad++
England

Notepad++
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) PuTTY
1 2 (100.00%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle