Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Developer
England > Midlands

The median Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 317 386 604
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.80% 11.71% 11.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.80% 12.38% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 314 460
10th Percentile £259 £313 £345
25th Percentile £313 £363 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £520 £554 £538
90th Percentile £595 £625 £586
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £22.50 - £35.42
25th Percentile £26.25 £31.69 £41.67
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.39 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% -28.47% +127.66%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.08 -
90th Percentile £56.25 - £54.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,477 3,118 4,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 94.60% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,193 3,533
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% +2.70% +14.91%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 117 167
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.70
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.00 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +17.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £32.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.45 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +5 224 £425 -10.53% 282
East Midlands -2 93 £413 -2.94% 146
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 91 (28.71%) SQL
2 72 (22.71%) JavaScript
3 65 (20.50%) C#
4 59 (18.61%) Agile
5 56 (17.67%) HTML
6 52 (16.40%) Azure
7 51 (16.09%) Python
8 49 (15.46%) Social Skills
9 45 (14.20%) TypeScript
9 45 (14.20%) .NET
10 44 (13.88%) Full Stack Development
11 43 (13.56%) Degree
12 39 (12.30%) Software Engineering
13 38 (11.99%) Microsoft
14 34 (10.73%) AWS
14 34 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (10.73%) React
15 31 (9.78%) Artificial Intelligence
15 31 (9.78%) Java
15 31 (9.78%) CSS
15 31 (9.78%) Code Quality
16 30 (9.46%) PayPal
16 30 (9.46%) AngularJS
16 30 (9.46%) Chatbot
16 30 (9.46%) Conversational UI
17 28 (8.83%) DevOps
18 27 (8.52%) Oracle
18 27 (8.52%) Finance
19 25 (7.89%) Power Platform
20 24 (7.57%) Security Cleared

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.79%) WordPress
2 11 (3.47%) SAS
3 9 (2.84%) CICS
4 6 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.89%) CMS
4 6 (1.89%) OpenEdge
5 5 (1.58%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.63%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.32%) Confluence
7 1 (0.32%) Drupal
7 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (9.46%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Odoo
2 4 (1.26%) Exstream
2 4 (1.26%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.95%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.95%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.32%) OpenCart
5 1 (0.32%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 52 (16.40%) Azure
2 34 (10.73%) AWS
3 25 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 20 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.79%) Power Automate
6 10 (3.15%) PowerApps
6 10 (3.15%) Serverless
7 7 (2.21%) Azure Functions
7 7 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.89%) Azure App Service
8 6 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.89%) GCP
9 5 (1.58%) Azure AKS
9 5 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.26%) Apigee
10 4 (1.26%) Boomi
11 3 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.95%) GitHub
11 3 (0.95%) SaaS
12 2 (0.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.58%) SAN
1 5 (1.58%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) Extranet
2 1 (0.32%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.62%) Power BI
1 21 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.47%) DB2
2 11 (3.47%) MySQL
3 10 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (2.84%) IDMS
4 9 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.89%) Big Data
5 6 (1.89%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.26%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (5.99%) Git
2 14 (4.42%) Rational Rhapsody
3 11 (3.47%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.52%) JIRA
5 5 (1.58%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (1.58%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.26%) Ant
6 4 (1.26%) NUnit
7 3 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.95%) webpack
8 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.63%) Hudson
8 2 (0.63%) Moq
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.32%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.32%) JUnit
9 1 (0.32%) Xcode
General
1 49 (15.46%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.52%) Finance
3 12 (3.79%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.58%) Banking
5 5 (1.58%) Billing
5 5 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
6 3 (0.95%) Retail
7 2 (0.63%) Automotive
7 2 (0.63%) Law
7 2 (0.63%) Local Government
7 2 (0.63%) Marketing
8 1 (0.32%) Advertising
8 1 (0.32%) Games
8 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.32%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.67%) HTML
2 45 (14.20%) .NET
3 34 (10.73%) React
4 31 (9.78%) CSS
5 30 (9.46%) AngularJS
6 18 (5.68%) GraphQL
7 17 (5.36%) Node.js
8 15 (4.73%) Vue
9 13 (4.10%) RESTful
10 10 (3.15%) Express.js
10 10 (3.15%) Spring
11 9 (2.84%) .NET Framework
11 9 (2.84%) REST
12 7 (2.21%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.21%) ASP.NET
12 7 (2.21%) XML
13 6 (1.89%) Apollo GraphQL
13 6 (1.89%) Next.js
13 6 (1.89%) Redux
14 5 (1.58%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.47%) Mainframe
2 10 (3.15%) IBM Mainframe
2 10 (3.15%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.84%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.95%) DataPower
7 3 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.63%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.63%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.32%) FMCG
9 1 (0.32%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.32%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.32%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.32%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.15%) Unix
2 9 (2.84%) zOS
3 7 (2.21%) Linux
4 5 (1.58%) Debian
4 5 (1.58%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.95%) Android
5 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (18.61%) Agile
2 44 (13.88%) Full Stack Development
3 39 (12.30%) Software Engineering
4 34 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (9.78%) Artificial Intelligence
5 31 (9.78%) Code Quality
6 30 (9.46%) Conversational UI
7 28 (8.83%) DevOps
8 23 (7.26%) CI/CD
8 23 (7.26%) Scrum
9 21 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (5.68%) Migration
11 17 (5.36%) Microservices
12 16 (5.05%) ETL
12 16 (5.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (4.73%) Analytics
14 14 (4.42%) Front End Development
15 13 (4.10%) MVC
15 13 (4.10%) Requirements Gathering
16 12 (3.79%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 91 (28.71%) SQL
2 72 (22.71%) JavaScript
3 65 (20.50%) C#
4 51 (16.09%) Python
5 45 (14.20%) TypeScript
6 31 (9.78%) Java
7 17 (5.36%) PHP
8 15 (4.73%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.47%) COBOL
10 9 (2.84%) CLIST
10 9 (2.84%) REXX
10 9 (2.84%) SELCOPY
11 7 (2.21%) ABAP
11 7 (2.21%) Bash
11 7 (2.21%) Bourne shell
11 7 (2.21%) Korn
12 5 (1.58%) Bicep
13 4 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.95%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (13.56%) Degree
2 24 (7.57%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.73%) HL7
2 7 (2.21%) QA
3 3 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (1.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) HDFS
2 1 (0.32%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (1.26%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.26%) Terraform
2 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
2 1 (0.32%) Grafana
2 1 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (11.99%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.46%) PayPal
3 27 (8.52%) Oracle
4 16 (5.05%) SAP
5 15 (4.73%) IBM
6 9 (2.84%) Syncsort
7 6 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.58%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.58%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.58%) VMware
9 4 (1.26%) OpenText
10 3 (0.95%) Informatica
11 2 (0.63%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.63%) Ariba
11 2 (0.63%) Teradata
12 1 (0.32%) JD Edwards
12 1 (0.32%) JDA
12 1 (0.32%) PeopleSoft
12 1 (0.32%) QAD
12 1 (0.32%) Sybase