Open Source Engineer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Open Source Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Open Source Engineer daily rate in Shropshire is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period 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 requiring an Open Source Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 0.47% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £430 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Shropshire with a recognized job title 193 97 56
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.77% 87.39% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 77 38
10th Percentile £325 £222 £267
25th Percentile £410 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £478
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +5.03% -4.50%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £540
90th Percentile £550 £557 £577
West Midlands median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.21 - -
Median hourly rate £18.68 - -
75th Percentile £28.87 - -
90th Percentile £35.56 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +19.76% - +16.67%

Open Source Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Job postings that featured Open Source Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Engineer in Shropshire

Open Source Engineer
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 Engineer 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 £430 -
Open Source Engineer
West Midlands

Open Source Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Open Source Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Shropshire region featuring Open Source Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source

Open Source Engineer Skill Set
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
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
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods