Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Data Strategy
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 3.88% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £482 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £451 £594
% change year-on-year +12.32% -24.13% +23.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Data Strategy 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 244 81 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 94.57% 83.51% 80.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 66 23
10th Percentile £387 £262 £313
25th Percentile £442 £319 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £434 £480
Median % change year-on-year +18.63% -9.56% -9.43%
75th Percentile £538 £514 £531
90th Percentile £556 £567 £585
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% -8.54% +55.19%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Data Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
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 Data Strategy within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. 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 £492 - 4
Data Strategy
West Midlands

Data Strategy
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 10 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 5 (50.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (10.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) GitLab
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JUnit
1 10 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Test Specialist
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) pytest
2 9 (90.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) Data Management
1 10 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 10 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 10 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 10 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 10 (100.00%) Visual Analytics
2 9 (90.00%) Defect Management
2 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (90.00%) Regression Testing
2 9 (90.00%) Test Scripting
3 7 (70.00%) Scrum
3 7 (70.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle