Customer Requirements Contract Job Trends in Telford

Customer Requirements
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 +45
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 2.17% 0.85% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 0.89% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £323 - £448
25th Percentile £345 - £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £402 £449
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -10.55% +6.90%
75th Percentile £360 - £450
90th Percentile £375 - £450
Shropshire median daily rate £350 £402 £449
% change year-on-year -12.86% -10.55% +6.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

Customer Requirements 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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 407 112 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 88.48% 95.73% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 75 25
10th Percentile £387 £313 £363
25th Percentile £425 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £477 £448
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% +6.47% -17.04%
75th Percentile £531 £530 £500
90th Percentile £563 £567 £535
Shropshire median daily rate £485 £475 £410
% change year-on-year +2.11% +15.85% -24.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - - -81.05%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
% change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Requirements relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in Telford

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
2 8 (80.00%) Zephyr
3 6 (60.00%) Postman
4 5 (50.00%) Git
5 2 (20.00%) Toad
6 1 (10.00%) GitLab
6 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) QA Tester
1 7 (70.00%) Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) ETL Tester
4 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 10 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Data Migration
2 8 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 8 (80.00%) ETL
2 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 8 (80.00%) Scenario Testing
2 8 (80.00%) Test Management
3 7 (70.00%) Integration Testing
3 7 (70.00%) System Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) ISTQB
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) ISEB
3 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Sage
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) webMethods
3 1 (10.00%) Talend