Public Sector Contracts in Shropshire

Public Sector
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 9 28
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -23
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 14 26 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 10.77% 19.40% 21.64%
As % of the General category 17.07% 52.00% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 36
10th Percentile £429 £358 £420
25th Percentile £453 £420 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% -0.93% +8.87%
75th Percentile £469 £538 £543
90th Percentile £536 - £600
West Midlands median daily rate £454 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -9.26% -7.41% +20.00%

All General Skills
Shropshire

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 82 50 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 63.08% 37.31% 59.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 86
10th Percentile £210 £248 £320
25th Percentile £332 £343 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £519 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% -3.89% +9.09%
75th Percentile £537 £535 £548
90th Percentile £541 £538 £596
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Shropshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Shropshire.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Shropshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Shropshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Shropshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Shropshire.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Shropshire

Public Sector
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 Public Sector within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -8 12 £453 -15.26% 41
Public Sector
West Midlands

Public Sector
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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP HR
1 1 (7.14%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) JBehave
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) ABAP Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Designer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Report Manager
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (7.14%) SAPUI5
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) Web Dynpro
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Animation
1 1 (7.14%) Blog
1 1 (7.14%) Digital Media
1 1 (7.14%) Digital Signage
1 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (7.14%) Graphic Design
1 1 (7.14%) PKI
1 1 (7.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Copywriting
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Test Scripting
5 1 (7.14%) TOGAF
5 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) ABAP
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) COBOL
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) SAP