Sage Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Sage
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire requiring knowledge or experience of Sage products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sage over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sage Group PLC.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sage 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.65% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £455 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £499 - -
90th Percentile £515 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £563 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -28.57%

All Vendors
Shropshire

Sage falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 262 83 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 56.96% 64.34% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 50 17
10th Percentile £400 £313 £260
25th Percentile £413 £434 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £460 £420
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +9.52% -22.22%
75th Percentile £533 £530 £500
90th Percentile £554 £567 £536
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £14.87
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% -18.09% -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £21.80 £22.50
% change year-on-year +14.68% -3.11% +26.98%

Sage
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Sage job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Sage
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Sage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Sage

Sage
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Sage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Sage

Sage
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 Sage within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 18 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 - 3 £465 - 5
Sage
West Midlands

Sage
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Pentaho
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) FATCA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Talend
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Informatica