Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Developer daily rate in the West 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 8 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 224 233 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.85% 10.27% 11.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.93% 10.86% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 177 305
10th Percentile £259 £360 £356
25th Percentile £313 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £540
90th Percentile £611 £675 £591
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £38.75 - -
25th Percentile £40.13 £31.69 £56.50
Median hourly rate £49.00 £33.39 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.77% -42.44% +28.89%
75th Percentile £55.94 £35.08 £59.50
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,733 2,146 3,451
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 94.58% 96.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,467 2,507
10th Percentile £256 £250 £225
25th Percentile £360 £386 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +12.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 64 77
10th Percentile £12.08 £12.50 £12.45
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.47 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +10.03%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.38 £22.85
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
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 Developer within the West 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
Birmingham +8 129 £400 -15.79% 114
Warwickshire +2 27 £580 +7.91% 33
Shropshire +8 19 £374 -30.22% 4
Staffordshire +18 12 £350 -26.32% 41
Coventry -4 12 £425 +4.62% 24
Worcestershire +6 5 £450 +20.00% 17
Dudley -1 2 £363 -27.50% 4
Walsall -1 2 £338 -20.59% 2
Herefordshire -16 1 £400 -20.00% 8
West Bromwich - 1 £338 - 1
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 West Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 68 (30.36%) SQL
2 42 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 41 (18.30%) Agile
4 40 (17.86%) Azure
5 38 (16.96%) C#
6 32 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 31 (13.84%) Microsoft
8 30 (13.39%) TypeScript
8 30 (13.39%) Full Stack Development
9 29 (12.95%) .NET
10 28 (12.50%) HTML
10 28 (12.50%) Python
11 25 (11.16%) Degree
12 24 (10.71%) AWS
12 24 (10.71%) AngularJS
12 24 (10.71%) Java
12 24 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (10.71%) React
13 23 (10.27%) DevOps
13 23 (10.27%) Power Platform
14 22 (9.82%) Software Engineering
15 21 (9.38%) Scrum
16 20 (8.93%) Oracle
16 20 (8.93%) CI/CD
16 20 (8.93%) Power BI
17 19 (8.48%) Business Intelligence
17 19 (8.48%) Finance
18 18 (8.04%) Git
19 17 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
20 16 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 10 (4.46%) SAS
2 9 (4.02%) CICS
3 8 (3.57%) WordPress
4 6 (2.68%) OpenEdge
5 5 (2.23%) CMS
6 3 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.89%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Drupal
8 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (6.70%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Odoo
2 4 (1.79%) Exstream
2 4 (1.79%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) OpenCart
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.86%) Azure
2 24 (10.71%) AWS
3 23 (10.27%) Power Platform
4 17 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (5.36%) Power Automate
6 10 (4.46%) Serverless
7 9 (4.02%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 7 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.68%) Azure App Service
10 5 (2.23%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.23%) GCP
11 4 (1.79%) Apigee
11 4 (1.79%) Boomi
12 3 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.34%) SaaS
13 2 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Extranet
1 1 (0.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.93%) Power BI
2 12 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.91%) DB2
4 10 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.02%) IDMS
5 9 (4.02%) MySQL
6 7 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.45%) Jackrabbit
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.45%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (8.04%) Git
2 14 (6.25%) Rational Rhapsody
3 6 (2.68%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.79%) Ant
4 4 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.34%) NUnit
5 3 (1.34%) webpack
6 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.89%) Hudson
6 2 (0.89%) Moq
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.45%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.45%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) Xcode
General
1 42 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.48%) Finance
3 9 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.68%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.23%) Billing
5 5 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.89%) Banking
6 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.89%) Retail
7 1 (0.45%) Automotive
7 1 (0.45%) Games
7 1 (0.45%) Law
7 1 (0.45%) Local Government
7 1 (0.45%) Marketing
7 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.95%) .NET
2 28 (12.50%) HTML
3 24 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 24 (10.71%) React
4 15 (6.70%) CSS
5 14 (6.25%) GraphQL
6 10 (4.46%) Spring
7 9 (4.02%) Express.js
7 9 (4.02%) RESTful
7 9 (4.02%) Vue
8 7 (3.13%) Node.js
8 7 (3.13%) REST
9 6 (2.68%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.23%) Apollo GraphQL
10 5 (2.23%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.23%) XML
11 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (1.79%) React Native
11 4 (1.79%) Redux
11 4 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.91%) Mainframe
2 10 (4.46%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.34%) DataPower
8 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.89%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.45%) FMCG
10 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.45%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.46%) Unix
2 9 (4.02%) zOS
3 3 (1.34%) Android
3 3 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.89%) Linux
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (18.30%) Agile
2 30 (13.39%) Full Stack Development
3 24 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (10.27%) DevOps
5 22 (9.82%) Software Engineering
6 21 (9.38%) Scrum
7 20 (8.93%) CI/CD
8 19 (8.48%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
10 15 (6.70%) Code Quality
10 15 (6.70%) Conversational UI
10 15 (6.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (6.25%) Microservices
12 12 (5.36%) ETL
12 12 (5.36%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (4.91%) ERP
13 11 (4.91%) Migration
14 10 (4.46%) Computer Science
14 10 (4.46%) CRM
15 9 (4.02%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 68 (30.36%) SQL
2 38 (16.96%) C#
3 32 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 30 (13.39%) TypeScript
5 28 (12.50%) Python
6 24 (10.71%) Java
7 11 (4.91%) COBOL
8 10 (4.46%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.02%) CLIST
9 9 (4.02%) PHP
9 9 (4.02%) REXX
9 9 (4.02%) SELCOPY
10 7 (3.13%) Bash
10 7 (3.13%) Bourne shell
10 7 (3.13%) Korn
11 5 (2.23%) Bicep
12 3 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.89%) Groovy
13 2 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (11.16%) Degree
2 14 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.91%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.25%) HL7
2 6 (2.68%) QA
3 3 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (1.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.79%) Terraform
2 1 (0.45%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 31 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.93%) Oracle
3 15 (6.70%) IBM
3 15 (6.70%) PayPal
4 9 (4.02%) SAP
4 9 (4.02%) Syncsort
5 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.79%) OpenText
6 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.34%) Informatica
8 1 (0.45%) Ariba
8 1 (0.45%) ICL
8 1 (0.45%) IFS
8 1 (0.45%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.45%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.45%) QAD
8 1 (0.45%) Sybase
8 1 (0.45%) Workday