Customer Requirements Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Customer Requirements
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -33 -10 +42
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.93% 0.71% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 0.75% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £323 - £448
25th Percentile £345 - £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £402 £449
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -10.55% +6.90%
75th Percentile £360 - £450
90th Percentile £375 - £450
West Midlands median daily rate £350 £441 £535
% change year-on-year -20.54% -17.66% +9.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Customer Requirements 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 445 134 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 86.07% 95.04% 59.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 85 30
10th Percentile £386 £255 £314
25th Percentile £421 £369 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +15.85% -24.07%
75th Percentile £530 £529 £490
90th Percentile £564 £567 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 £12.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
% change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.87%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
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 Customer Requirements within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 26 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 -36 10 £350 -12.86% 3
Customer Requirements
West Midlands

Customer Requirements
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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
2 8 (80.00%) Zephyr
3 6 (60.00%) Postman
4 5 (50.00%) Git
5 2 (20.00%) Toad
6 1 (10.00%) GitLab
6 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) QA Tester
1 7 (70.00%) Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) ETL Tester
4 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 10 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Data Migration
2 8 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 8 (80.00%) ETL
2 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 8 (80.00%) Scenario Testing
2 8 (80.00%) Test Management
3 7 (70.00%) Integration Testing
3 7 (70.00%) System Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) ISTQB
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) ISEB
3 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Sage
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) webMethods
3 1 (10.00%) Talend