Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Commercial Awareness
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 5 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.77% 3.82% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 4.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £314 £346 -
25th Percentile £315 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £387 £502 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.91% - -
75th Percentile £466 £511 -
90th Percentile £479 £516 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £522 £695
% change year-on-year -9.07% -24.84% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Commercial Awareness falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 550 125 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.75% 95.42% 64.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 78 60
10th Percentile £351 £313 £200
25th Percentile £408 £408 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £359
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +32.31% -33.27%
75th Percentile £508 £537 £497
90th Percentile £550 £544 £519
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 8
10th Percentile £25.15 - -
25th Percentile £44.73 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +331.03% +16.89% -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.62 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +88.83% -20.00% +18.42%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness in Shropshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in Shropshire

Commercial Awareness
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 Commercial Awareness within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 -41 5 £387 -22.91% 3
Commercial Awareness
West Midlands

Commercial Awareness
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 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) PMO Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
1 3 (60.00%) Project Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Business Forecasting
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Denodo