Advertising Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Advertising
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Advertising 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.14% - -
As % of the General category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £393 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £417 £480 £725
% change year-on-year -13.07% -33.79% +13.73%

All General Skills
Shropshire

Advertising falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 246 76 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 46.77% 53.15% 43.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 47 26
10th Percentile £361 £210 £290
25th Percentile £408 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £535
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -18.69% -0.93%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £536
90th Percentile £540 £567 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.63 - -
Median hourly rate £12.75 £23.60 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year -45.97% +126.49% -71.59%
75th Percentile £12.88 - -
90th Percentile - - £12.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.52 £19.00 £19.23
% change year-on-year +13.26% -1.17% +9.11%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Advertising relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Advertising job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Advertising
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Advertising.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Advertising

Advertising
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advertising in Shropshire over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Advertising in Shropshire

Advertising
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 Advertising within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford - 6 £417 - 6
Advertising
West Midlands

Advertising
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 2 (33.33%) SAS
2 1 (16.67%) Tuxedo
2 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) IDMS
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) Pentaho
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) CA Gen
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Database Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Database Security
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Denodo
2 1 (16.67%) Sage
2 1 (16.67%) Talend