GitHub Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

GitHub
West Midlands > Shropshire

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -36 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.23% 0.79% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 2.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £495 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% - -
West Midlands median daily rate £588 £523 £425
% change year-on-year +12.44% +22.94% -19.05%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Shropshire

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 131 43 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 30.18% 33.86% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 30 3
10th Percentile £376 £291 £340
25th Percentile £413 £418 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +9.22% -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £492
90th Percentile £553 £567 £517
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -8.42%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Shropshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing GitHub

GitHub
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 GitHub within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 6 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 -42 1 £470 -5.05% 1
GitHub
West Midlands

GitHub
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Ingres
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Actian
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle