Senior Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Senior Java Developer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in Shropshire is £531, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.98% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £658 £700
% change year-on-year -20.15% -6.07% -6.67%

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 182 79 52
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 84.95% 98.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 64 31
10th Percentile £325 £166 £200
25th Percentile £408 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -3.95% -9.00%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £531
90th Percentile £544 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.21 - -
Median hourly rate £18.68 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% - -
75th Percentile £28.87 - -
90th Percentile £35.56 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.80 £23.00
% change year-on-year +15.39% -5.24% +29.80%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Senior Java Developer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in Shropshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in Shropshire

Senior Java Developer
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 Senior Java Developer within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 12 October 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 - 2 £531 -
Senior Java Developer
West Midlands

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 12 October 2025, Senior Java Developer 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 Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) React

Senior Java Developer 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) GraalVM
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle