Knowledge Transfer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Knowledge Transfer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Knowledge Transfer 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 59 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.38% - 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% - 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £423 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £510 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £588 £475
% change year-on-year -18.30% +23.68% -12.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Knowledge Transfer 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 369 118 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.02% 92.91% 53.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 73 26
10th Percentile £400 £301 £308
25th Percentile £436 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £415
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% +14.46% -23.15%
75th Percentile £537 £529 £500
90th Percentile £561 £567 £535
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £490
% change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% -2.00%
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%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Knowledge Transfer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Knowledge Transfer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer in Shropshire over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in Shropshire

Knowledge Transfer
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 Knowledge Transfer 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 - 5 £470 - 1
Knowledge Transfer
West Midlands

Knowledge Transfer
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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Ingres
1 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Gatling
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Manager
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Transition Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Service Design Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Service Transition Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Test Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ActiveX
1 2 (33.33%) ADO
1 2 (33.33%) COM
1 2 (33.33%) ODBC
2 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (16.67%) JDBC
2 1 (16.67%) JSP
2 1 (16.67%) Servlets
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 4 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Runbook
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Model Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VB
2 3 (50.00%) VB6
3 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Actian
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow