Software Engineering Contracts in Shropshire

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Shropshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 22 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 18 43 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 13.43% 25.75% 13.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.69% 27.56% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 60
10th Percentile £352 £490 -
25th Percentile - £538 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +1.89% +30.86%
75th Percentile £368 - £545
90th Percentile £483 £543 £586
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £540 £530
% change year-on-year -16.67% +1.89% +30.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 156 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 61.94% 93.41% 98.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 122 454
10th Percentile £260 £410 £383
25th Percentile £350 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £538 £505
Median % change year-on-year -29.74% +6.53% +24.69%
75th Percentile £497 £540 £575
90th Percentile £519 £595 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +16.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £10.42 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -81.05% +214.29% +34.62%
75th Percentile £11.32 £57.50 £18.75
90th Percentile £14.26 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Shropshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Shropshire

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Telford +10 17 £358 -33.70% 1
Software Engineering
West Midlands

Software Engineering
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 2 (11.11%) CICS
1 2 (11.11%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (77.78%) Amazon Redshift
1 14 (77.78%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) DB2
2 2 (11.11%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 16 (88.89%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) PVCS
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (11.11%) Developer
1 2 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 2 (11.11%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (5.56%) C Programmer
2 1 (5.56%) Dashboard Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Denodo Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Embedded C Programmer
2 1 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Programmer
2 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Configuration Management
1 16 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
1 16 (88.89%) Requirements Gathering
2 15 (83.33%) Agile
2 15 (83.33%) Analytics
2 15 (83.33%) Data Analytics
2 15 (83.33%) Data Extraction
2 15 (83.33%) ETL
3 14 (77.78%) Dashboard Development
3 14 (77.78%) Scrum
4 11 (61.11%) Process Improvement
4 11 (61.11%) Test Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) C
1 2 (11.11%) C++
1 2 (11.11%) CLIST
1 2 (11.11%) COBOL
1 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
1 2 (11.11%) REXX
1 2 (11.11%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Denodo
1 14 (77.78%) Talend
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
2 2 (11.11%) Syncsort