Pega Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Pega
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Pega products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pega over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Pegasystems, Inc.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 105 123
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing Pega 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.053% 0.048%
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% 0.11% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 £609 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £619 £560
Median % change year-on-year -33.31% +10.45% +6.26%
75th Percentile £428 £628 £565
90th Percentile £434 - -
England median daily rate £456 £609 £600
% change year-on-year -25.11% +1.54% +9.09%

All Vendors
West Midlands

Pega falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 925 879 1,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 50.55% 46.26% 50.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 583 649
10th Percentile £235 £250 £219
25th Percentile £380 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £600
90th Percentile £639 £713 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 17
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.40 £17.30
25th Percentile £28.11 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% +34.33%
75th Percentile £46.63 £48.75 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £59.00 £46.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

Pega
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Pega as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Pega in the West Midlands

Pega
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Pega
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 Pega within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 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 -2 1 £425 -31.29% 3
Shropshire - 1 £400 -
Pega
England

Pega
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 2 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker