Taxonomies Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Taxonomy
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Taxonomies in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Taxonomies over the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 98 110
Rank change year-on-year -38 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 4 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.13% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.42% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile - - £263
25th Percentile - - £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £200 £570
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -64.91% -
75th Percentile - - £594
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £463
% change year-on-year - +13.51% -22.92%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Taxonomies falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 847 471 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.77% 30.97% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 287 403
10th Percentile £237 £177 £277
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £611
90th Percentile £671 £696 £698
England median daily rate £510 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -7.27% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 22 60
10th Percentile £17.11 £15.51 £10.88
25th Percentile £18.78 £18.96 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.03 £23.89 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +3.87% +19.90%
75th Percentile £27.05 £31.65 £58.75
90th Percentile £48.08 £54.60 £67.63
England median hourly rate £31.36 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -16.37% +15.38% +44.54%

Taxonomies
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Taxonomies job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Taxonomies
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 Taxonomies within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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 -10 3 £600 +200.00%
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Taxonomies
England

Taxonomies
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 3 (75.00%) Pega Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Pega Consultant
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Personalization
2 3 (75.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Pega
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft