Systems Thinking Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Systems Thinking
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Systems Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing Systems Thinking 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.039% - 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £568
25th Percentile - - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £625
75th Percentile - - £663
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -4.41% -7.27% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Systems Thinking 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 2,197 1,296 1,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.19% 88.77% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 809 1,037
10th Percentile £290 £210 £275
25th Percentile £403 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 51 110
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £11.94
25th Percentile £16.21 £15.74 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.46 £20.24 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% -12.00% +29.94%
75th Percentile £26.98 £33.65 £48.75
90th Percentile £33.20 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Systems Thinking job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Systems Thinking
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 Systems Thinking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 February 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 - 1 £700 -
Systems Thinking
England

Systems Thinking
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation