Senior Contracts in Shropshire

Senior
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Senior daily rate in Shropshire is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 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
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 2.04% 8.41% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 10.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £485 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.99% - -
West Midlands median daily rate £531 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% +3.82% +4.12%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Shropshire with a recognized job title 179 87 61
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 81.31% 82.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 61 40
10th Percentile £325 £180 £279
25th Percentile £404 £325 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £543
90th Percentile £548 £538 £574
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £19.59 £22.10
% change year-on-year +27.62% -11.36% +24.51%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Shropshire

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Shropshire

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Shropshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Shropshire

Senior
DemandTrendContract 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 within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford -17 4 £325 -32.99% 1
Senior
West Midlands

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 25 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
1 3 (75.00%) PaaS
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (75.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (75.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy

Senior 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
1 3 (75.00%) PaaS
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Key Management
1 3 (75.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft