Developer Contracts in Wolverhampton

Developer
West Midlands > Wolverhampton

The median Developer daily rate in Wolverhampton is £360, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wolverhampton 40.00% - 8.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 40.00% - 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £348 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.92%
75th Percentile £643 - £375
90th Percentile £812 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% +6.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wolverhampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wolverhampton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Wolverhampton with a recognized job title 10 5 21
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 19
10th Percentile £309 £349 £125
25th Percentile £336 £391 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £475 £233
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +103.86% -55.08%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £459
90th Percentile £770 £528 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.37 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wolverhampton

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wolverhampton.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Wolverhampton

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wolverhampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Wolverhampton.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Wolverhampton

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wolverhampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Wolverhampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Wolverhampton

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wolverhampton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Wolverhampton.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Wolverhampton

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wolverhampton

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wolverhampton region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) ABAP
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) IDoc
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) BPMN
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (25.00%) SAPUI5
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) MVC

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wolverhampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
1 1 (25.00%) EDI
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) IDoc
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) JDBC
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (25.00%) SAPUI5
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) BPMN
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) ABAP
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP