Innovative Thinking Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Innovative Thinking
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Innovative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.93% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - -
75th Percentile £482 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £501 £500 £300
% change year-on-year +0.10% +66.67% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Innovative Thinking 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 365 120 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.69% 93.75% 56.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 76 29
10th Percentile £400 £263 £315
25th Percentile £433 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £472 £410
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +15.12% -24.07%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £500
90th Percentile £562 £567 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
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 £21.59 £23.00
% change year-on-year -0.60% -6.13% +29.94%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Innovative Thinking job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Innovative Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Innovative Thinking

Innovative Thinking
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 Innovative Thinking within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 10 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 - 4 £442 - 2
Innovative Thinking
West Midlands

Innovative Thinking
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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
2 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Ingres
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Actian