Open Source Development Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Open Source Software Development
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Open Source Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Open Source Development 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 0.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Open Source Development 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 199 81 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 92.56% 72.97% 83.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 65 36
10th Percentile £325 £298 £359
25th Percentile £411 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -7.50% -1.48%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £540
90th Percentile £550 £567 £580
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% -11.59% +55.19%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Job postings citing Open Source Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Development in Shropshire

Open Source Development
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Open Source Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
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 Open Source Development within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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 - -
Open Source Development
West Midlands

Open Source Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Lean Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods