Degree Contract Job Trends in Telford

Academic Degree
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 +64
Contract jobs citing Degree 5 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 2.76% 9.41% 2.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.75% 13.33% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £453 £117 -
25th Percentile £456 £149 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £441 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -23.30% +38.22%
75th Percentile £488 £569 £588
90th Percentile - £573 -
Shropshire median daily rate £475 £441 £575
% change year-on-year +7.71% -23.30% +38.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Telford

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Telford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 87 60 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 48.07% 70.59% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 52 16
10th Percentile £402 £338 £405
25th Percentile £463 £358 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £484 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.13% +0.83% -7.51%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £546
90th Percentile £540 £540 £580
Shropshire median daily rate £519 £484 £480
% change year-on-year +7.13% +0.83% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year +32.65% - -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Degree job vacancy trend in Telford

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Degree

Degree
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (20.00%) Miro
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Design Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CAPM
1 1 (20.00%) CBAP
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle