Software Developer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Software Developer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Software Developer daily rate in Shropshire is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 23 13
Rank change year-on-year -32 -10 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.79% 2.06% 7.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 2.47% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £415 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £345 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.64% - -
75th Percentile £445 £353 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £398 £463
% change year-on-year +50.94% -14.05% -2.89%

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 229 81 50
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 83.51% 98.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 66 29
10th Percentile £350 £170 £200
25th Percentile £429 £307 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £443 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% -6.84% -10.29%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £500
90th Percentile £552 £567 £576
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 £21.59 £21.30
% change year-on-year +16.49% +1.36% +20.20%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Software Developer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Software Developer job vacancies in Shropshire

Software 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 Software Developer within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 21 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 -27 2 £430 +24.64% 2
Software Developer
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) EJB
2 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) EJB
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) J2SE
1 1 (50.00%) Java EE
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) webMethods