Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 22 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 6.29% 8.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 9.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 0
10th Percentile £429 £359 -
25th Percentile £429 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £477 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% - -
75th Percentile £553 £510 -
90th Percentile £562 £529 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £477 £550
% change year-on-year +10.06% -13.27% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 309 94 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 88.29% 84.68% 77.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 64 22
10th Percentile £400 £215 £264
25th Percentile £436 £367 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £481 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +20.13% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £478
90th Percentile £553 £567 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +157.02% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £38.53 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Shropshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Shropshire

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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 -28 19 £478 +0.21% 43
Shrewsbury - 1 - - 29
Software Engineering
West Midlands

Software Engineering
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 10 (45.45%) WebLogic
2 8 (36.36%) Apache
2 8 (36.36%) JBoss
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (13.64%) Power Automate
4 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (77.27%) Git
2 13 (59.09%) JUnit
2 13 (59.09%) Selenium
3 8 (36.36%) Eclipse
3 8 (36.36%) IntelliJ
4 5 (22.73%) Cucumber
4 5 (22.73%) GitLab
4 5 (22.73%) Maven
4 5 (22.73%) Mockito
5 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 18 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Java Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Applications Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Power Apps Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Power Apps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Messaging Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Open Source Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) Spring
2 14 (63.64%) JSON
3 13 (59.09%) HTML
4 12 (54.55%) REST
5 9 (40.91%) SOAP
6 8 (36.36%) EJB
6 8 (36.36%) Hibernate
6 8 (36.36%) HTML5
6 8 (36.36%) J2EE
6 8 (36.36%) J2SE
6 8 (36.36%) Play Framework
6 8 (36.36%) XML
7 7 (31.82%) Spring Boot
8 5 (22.73%) Gherkin
8 5 (22.73%) JDBC
8 5 (22.73%) JPA
8 5 (22.73%) OAuth
8 5 (22.73%) OAuth2
8 5 (22.73%) OpenID
8 5 (22.73%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Agile
2 15 (68.18%) Microservices
2 15 (68.18%) Scrum
3 13 (59.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (54.55%) DevOps
5 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (40.91%) Mentoring
6 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (36.36%) Lean Software Development
7 8 (36.36%) Open Source
8 5 (22.73%) Coaching
8 5 (22.73%) OO
8 5 (22.73%) OOD
8 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Java
2 13 (59.09%) SQL
3 9 (40.91%) Scala
4 4 (18.18%) Python
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) C
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) Korn
6 1 (4.55%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) WCAG
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Puppet
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (22.73%) Grafana
3 5 (22.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) webMethods
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Trillium