Software Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 43 86
Rank change year-on-year -22 +43 -42
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 42 77 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.71% 3.73% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 4.59% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 46 32
10th Percentile £450 £350 £376
25th Percentile £456 £358 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £456 £590
Median % change year-on-year +22.19% -22.67% +13.46%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £649
England median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Software Engineering 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 1,373 1,676 1,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.08% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,117 1,366
10th Percentile £206 £273 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.20%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £613
90th Percentile £673 £725 £713
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 111 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.06 £15.38
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.95 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -20.20% +47.06%
75th Percentile £33.88 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 -11 13 £540 +50.84% 40
Birmingham +2 11 £265 -43.71% 133
Worcestershire -3 7 £575 +4.55% 30
Warwickshire 0 3 - - 40
Coventry -1 3 £463 -5.13% 36
Herefordshire +16 2 £525 - 4
Staffordshire +4 2 - - 74
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Tuxedo
2 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (9.52%) Google Analytics
5 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.76%) GCP
6 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.76%) Serverless
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.38%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.38%) ERwin
3 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 19 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Brand Awareness
4 4 (9.52%) Marketing
5 2 (4.76%) Law
5 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Back Office
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Campaign Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Developer
4 3 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Control Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) PHP Software Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Contracts Manager
6 1 (2.38%) Data Modeller
6 1 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.38%) Designer
6 1 (2.38%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Project Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) React
2 2 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.76%) CSS
2 2 (4.76%) HTML
2 2 (4.76%) Next.js
2 2 (4.76%) Node.js
2 2 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (2.38%) .NET
3 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.38%) JSON
3 1 (2.38%) Kafka
3 1 (2.38%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.38%) REST
3 1 (2.38%) SOAP
3 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.38%) Swagger
3 1 (2.38%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) PKI
1 4 (9.52%) Social Media
2 2 (4.76%) SCADA
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.76%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) DevOps
2 13 (30.95%) Agile
2 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
3 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
3 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (19.05%) User Experience
4 7 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 7 (16.67%) Workflow
5 5 (11.90%) Analytics
5 5 (11.90%) Intelligent Automation
5 5 (11.90%) Software Delivery
5 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (9.52%) Campaign Management
6 4 (9.52%) Content Development
6 4 (9.52%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (9.52%) Marketing Automation
6 4 (9.52%) Microservices
6 4 (9.52%) Performance Measurement
6 4 (9.52%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Java
2 5 (11.90%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) SQL
3 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.14%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) Bash
5 2 (4.76%) PHP
5 2 (4.76%) Scala
6 1 (2.38%) C
6 1 (2.38%) Go
6 1 (2.38%) Korn
6 1 (2.38%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.38%) R
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (19.05%) Degree
4 7 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) IEC 61131
2 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) Terraform
2 10 (23.81%) Ansible
3 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.14%) Opsview
5 1 (2.38%) Consul
5 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Google
2 4 (9.52%) Adobe
3 3 (7.14%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.38%) Siemens
5 1 (2.38%) Splunk
5 1 (2.38%) Trillium
5 1 (2.38%) webMethods