LIMS Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term LIMS in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LIMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LIMS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 - -

All Generic Skills
Shropshire

LIMS 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 182 36 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 23.70% 18.37% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 21 16
10th Percentile £408 £209 £139
25th Percentile £452 £233 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £300
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% +50.00% -38.78%
75th Percentile £626 £540 £358
90th Percentile £671 £626 £377
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +0.81% -9.82% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £13.50 - -
90th Percentile £13.80 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £31.96 £30.88
% change year-on-year +6.37% +3.50% +12.27%

LIMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

LIMS job vacancy trend in Shropshire

LIMS
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 LIMS within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 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 - 1 £550 -
LIMS
West Midlands

LIMS
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 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Information Management
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (100.00%) GMP
1 1 (100.00%) GxP
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle