Vagrant Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Vagrant
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Vagrant skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vagrant 19 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.85% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 5.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £461 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £340 £563
% change year-on-year +39.71% -39.56% +6.38%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

Vagrant falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 379 174 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.92% 10.46% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 121 100
10th Percentile £363 £375 £319
25th Percentile £429 £434 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +13.51% -12.24%
75th Percentile £568 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £706 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £41.63 - £57.16
25th Percentile £50.06 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £62.25 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -13.65% -
75th Percentile £70.38 £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £74.65 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Vagrant
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Vagrant job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Vagrant
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Vagrant
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 Vagrant within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Birmingham - 17 £475 -
Solihull - 2 £450 -
Vagrant
England

Vagrant
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 19 (100.00%) Confluence
2 11 (57.89%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 19 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 19 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 19 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
1 19 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 19 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 11 (57.89%) Amazon ECS
2 11 (57.89%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (57.89%) Route 53
3 10 (52.63%) Azure
4 8 (42.11%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) SMTP
2 18 (94.74%) DNS
2 18 (94.74%) Firewall
2 18 (94.74%) FTP
2 18 (94.74%) HTTP
2 18 (94.74%) SSH
3 11 (57.89%) IMAP
3 11 (57.89%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (57.89%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (57.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (100.00%) Git
1 19 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 19 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (89.47%) Public Sector
2 10 (52.63%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) AWS Engineer
1 18 (94.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 18 (94.74%) Platform Engineer
2 17 (89.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (84.21%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (84.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (57.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 9 (47.37%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (94.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
1 19 (100.00%) VMS
2 18 (94.74%) Windows
3 10 (52.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Change Management
1 19 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 19 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
1 19 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (94.74%) Patch Management
3 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (5.26%) Agile
4 1 (5.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (5.26%) Process Improvement
4 1 (5.26%) Servant Leadership
4 1 (5.26%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Groovy
1 19 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) SQL
3 8 (42.11%) Java
3 8 (42.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (94.74%) SC Cleared
1 18 (94.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) AWS Certification
2 10 (52.63%) Azure Certification
2 10 (52.63%) Degree
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) Docker
2 18 (94.74%) DFS Replication
3 11 (57.89%) Dovecot
3 11 (57.89%) Postfix
3 11 (57.89%) Squid
4 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (100.00%) Grafana
1 19 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 19 (100.00%) Terraform
2 11 (57.89%) Nessus
3 10 (52.63%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 11 (57.89%) Jaspersoft