Developer Contracts in Shropshire

Developer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Developer daily rate in Shropshire is £374 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 33 19
Rank change year-on-year +21 -14 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 19 31 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 14.18% 18.13% 17.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.81% 20.26% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 75
10th Percentile £326 £424 £414
25th Percentile £352 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -30.74% +1.89% +23.83%
75th Percentile £509 £595 £545
90th Percentile £536 £600 £578
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -15.00% +6.38% +17.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Shropshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 113 153 612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.33% 89.47% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 117 431
10th Percentile £260 £401 £395
25th Percentile £374 £448 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +5.49% +25.93%
75th Percentile £536 £540 £575
90th Percentile £538 £595 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.25% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £14.94 - £11.33
25th Percentile - £52.50 £11.44
Median hourly rate £15.00 £55.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +323.08% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £16.13
90th Percentile - - £17.70
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
% change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +8.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Shropshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Shropshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Shropshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Shropshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Shropshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Telford +22 17 £374 -34.67% 3
Developer
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 Shropshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 18 (94.74%) Agile
2 17 (89.47%) Scrum
3 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (52.63%) Mainframe
3 10 (52.63%) COBOL
3 10 (52.63%) DB2
3 10 (52.63%) IBM
3 10 (52.63%) IBM Mainframe
3 10 (52.63%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (47.37%) SELCOPY
4 9 (47.37%) CLIST
4 9 (47.37%) Syncsort
4 9 (47.37%) Git
4 9 (47.37%) CICS
4 9 (47.37%) SAS
4 9 (47.37%) Oracle
4 9 (47.37%) SQL
4 9 (47.37%) IDMS
4 9 (47.37%) REXX
4 9 (47.37%) zOS
5 8 (42.11%) Software Testing
5 8 (42.11%) PL/SQL
5 8 (42.11%) Unix
5 8 (42.11%) System Testing
5 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
5 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
6 7 (36.84%) Bourne shell
6 7 (36.84%) Bash
6 7 (36.84%) Korn
7 6 (31.58%) BPSS Clearance

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 9 (47.37%) CICS
1 9 (47.37%) SAS
2 1 (5.26%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) DB2
2 9 (47.37%) IDMS
3 1 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Ant
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) IBM Mainframe
1 10 (52.63%) Mainframe
2 5 (26.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) zOS
2 8 (42.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Agile
2 17 (89.47%) Scrum
3 10 (52.63%) Requirements Gathering
3 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (42.11%) Software Testing
4 8 (42.11%) System Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (10.53%) ETL
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) Analytics
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics
6 1 (5.26%) Data Extraction
6 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) COBOL
2 9 (47.37%) CLIST
2 9 (47.37%) REXX
2 9 (47.37%) SELCOPY
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
3 8 (42.11%) PL/SQL
4 7 (36.84%) Bash
4 7 (36.84%) Bourne shell
4 7 (36.84%) Korn
5 2 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) IBM
2 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 9 (47.37%) Syncsort
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft