People Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

People Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring People Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 100 103
Rank change year-on-year -24 +3 +42
Contract jobs citing People Management 5 12 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.64% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.77% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile £248 £293 -
25th Percentile £356 £402 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £434 £627 £545
90th Percentile £1,111 £719 £580
England median daily rate £609 £563 £569
% change year-on-year +8.27% -1.10% -1.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

People Management 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 1,686 1,563 1,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.87% 83.23% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 984 1,161
10th Percentile £259 £228 £263
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £683 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 40 55
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.66 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.44 £21.82
Median hourly rate £23.03 £23.05 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -16.18% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +38.38%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

People Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

People Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

People Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing People Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for People Management in the West Midlands

People Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

People Management
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 People Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Shropshire - 2 £307 - 4
Worcestershire - 2 £369 - 3
Warwickshire -7 1 £1,375 +189.47% 3
People Management
England

People Management
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 (40.00%) Broadband
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Delivery Director
3 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Network Operations Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Network Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Service Operations Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Services Director
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Network Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Fault Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Novell Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO