Tripwire Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Tripwire
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Tripwire products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tripwire over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, 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 Tripwire, Inc.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Tripwire 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.041% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.080% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £525 -
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

All Vendors
West Midlands

Tripwire 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 1,245 772 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 50.67% 49.77% 46.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 491 513
10th Percentile £263 £208 £220
25th Percentile £400 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +10.22% -5.68%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £679
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 46
10th Percentile £14.28 £12.79 £11.19
25th Percentile £16.80 £18.13 £14.71
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.60 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +4.89% +26.98%
75th Percentile £27.21 £31.22 £26.86
90th Percentile £66.49 £35.00 £42.13
England median hourly rate £23.25 £30.00 £30.88
% change year-on-year -22.50% -2.83% -4.26%

Tripwire
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Tripwire job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Tripwire
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 Tripwire within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Warwickshire - 1 £475 -
Tripwire
England

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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 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System