FactoryTalk Job Trends in the West Midlands

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring FactoryTalk skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 168 -
Rank change year-on-year -40 - -
Permanent jobs citing FactoryTalk 2 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.022% 0.15% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.68% 1.78% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 - -
75th Percentile £58,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 -
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

FactoryTalk falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 294 281 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.26% 8.65% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 199 191 209
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,750 £29,800
25th Percentile £37,750 £32,500 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -8.63%
75th Percentile £65,945 £68,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -

FactoryTalk
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

FactoryTalk job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

FactoryTalk
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing FactoryTalk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing FactoryTalk

FactoryTalk
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FactoryTalk within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staffordshire +3 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £56,000 - 2
FactoryTalk
England

FactoryTalk
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 (50.00%) WinCC
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Modbus
1 2 (100.00%) Profibus
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Commissioning Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
2 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) IEC 61131
1 1 (50.00%) IEC 61508
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens