Operations Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Operations Support Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Operations Support Engineer daily rate in Shropshire is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Support Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £300 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 399 114 81
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 89.06% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 73 51
10th Percentile £393 £228 £313
25th Percentile £413 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £537 £515 £536
90th Percentile £580 £544 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £14.94
25th Percentile £16.73 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% -18.80% -59.11%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £21.59 £22.50
% change year-on-year +15.79% -4.04% +26.98%

Operations Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Operations Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Operations Support Engineer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Operations Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Support Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Support Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire

Operations Support 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 Operations Support Engineer within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 14 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 - 1 £465 -
Operations Support Engineer
West Midlands

Operations Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 14 February 2026, Operations Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Shropshire region featuring Operations Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic

Operations Support Engineer Skill Set
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%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat