Degree Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Academic Degree
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 +66
Contract jobs citing Degree 7 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 3.43% 9.18% 1.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.22% 14.06% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £453 £117 -
25th Percentile £456 £149 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £441 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -23.30% +38.22%
75th Percentile £488 £569 £588
90th Percentile - £573 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +22.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.91 - -
Median hourly rate £37.46 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% - -
75th Percentile £40.02 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -9.41% +136.11% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Shropshire

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 97 64 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 47.55% 65.31% 49.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 53 17
10th Percentile £402 £338 £405
25th Percentile £467 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £484 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.13% +0.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £538
90th Percentile £540 £540 £579
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
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 £30.00 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.90% +55.00%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Degree job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Degree

Degree
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 Degree within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 6 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 -22 5 £475 +7.71% 11
Shrewsbury - 1 - - 3
Degree
West Midlands

Degree
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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) Lucidchart
2 1 (14.29%) Miro
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) PVCS
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Design Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (14.29%) Journey Map
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CAPM
1 1 (14.29%) CBAP
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle