Hackathon Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Hackathon
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hackathon over the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Hackathon 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.73% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £722 - -
25th Percentile £736 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £760 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £760 - -

All Generic Skills
Shropshire

Hackathon falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 80 31 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 19.37% 25.41% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 18 10
10th Percentile £221 £166 £391
25th Percentile £408 £244 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £370 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.42% -26.00% -
75th Percentile £529 £504 £527
90th Percentile £681 £582 £536
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.29% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.60 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +126.49% -71.59%
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.03 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year +1.80% +2.61% +25.24%

Hackathon
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Hackathon job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Hackathon
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 Hackathon within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 27 January 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 - 3 £760 -
Hackathon
West Midlands

Hackathon
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:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Chatbot
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 3 (100.00%) Epics
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Server-Driven UI
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance