Developer Contract Job Trends in Telford

Developer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Developer daily rate in Telford is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 19 4
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 28 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 9.21% 5.68% 24.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.26% 6.41% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 2
10th Percentile £360 £429 £307
25th Percentile £400 £455 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £319
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +53.57% -46.88%
75th Percentile £520 £519 £333
90th Percentile £556 £535 £336
Shropshire median daily rate £500 £490 £319
% change year-on-year +2.15% +53.57% -46.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 273 78 29
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 88.64% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 62 20
10th Percentile £387 £308 £286
25th Percentile £430 £434 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £484 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% +21.00% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £489
90th Percentile £554 £565 £505
Shropshire median daily rate £493 £477 £400
% change year-on-year +3.25% +19.25% -24.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £18.68 £12.18 -
% change year-on-year +53.37% - -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Developer job vacancy trend in Telford

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Telford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Telford

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Telford over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Telford

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Telford.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Telford

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, 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 Telford region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 15 (53.57%) Java
2 14 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) Playwright
3 9 (32.14%) Scrum
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (28.57%) React
4 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 7 (25.00%) AWS
5 7 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 7 (25.00%) Microservices
5 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (25.00%) Spring
5 7 (25.00%) SQL
6 6 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (21.43%) Git
6 6 (21.43%) HTML
6 6 (21.43%) JSON
6 6 (21.43%) JUnit
6 6 (21.43%) Material-UI
6 6 (21.43%) Progressive Enhancement
6 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
6 6 (21.43%) Selenium
6 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
7 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (17.86%) DevOps
7 5 (17.86%) Docker
7 5 (17.86%) REST

Developer Skill Set
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 3 (10.71%) Apache
1 3 (10.71%) JBoss
1 3 (10.71%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP HR
1 1 (3.57%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.14%) Azure
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) Power BI
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
1 6 (21.43%) JUnit
1 6 (21.43%) Selenium
2 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
2 3 (10.71%) Eclipse
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 3 (10.71%) IntelliJ
2 3 (10.71%) Maven
2 3 (10.71%) Mockito
3 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Playwright
2 8 (28.57%) React
3 7 (25.00%) Spring
4 6 (21.43%) HTML
4 6 (21.43%) JSON
4 6 (21.43%) Material-UI
5 5 (17.86%) REST
6 4 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 4 (14.29%) RESTful
6 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 3 (10.71%) EJB
7 3 (10.71%) Gherkin
7 3 (10.71%) HTML5
7 3 (10.71%) J2EE
7 3 (10.71%) J2SE
7 3 (10.71%) JPA
7 3 (10.71%) OAuth
7 3 (10.71%) OAuth2
7 3 (10.71%) SOAP
7 3 (10.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (32.14%) Scrum
3 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 7 (25.00%) Microservices
4 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (21.43%) Progressive Enhancement
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) User Experience
6 5 (17.86%) UX Design
7 4 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.29%) SDLC
8 3 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (10.71%) Lean Software Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Java
2 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 5 (17.86%) Scala
5 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) Python
7 1 (3.57%) ABAP
7 1 (3.57%) C#
7 1 (3.57%) COBOL
7 1 (3.57%) Groovy
7 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.71%) WCAG
3 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Kibana
2 3 (10.71%) Puppet
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) webMethods
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Adobe
4 1 (3.57%) ICL
4 1 (3.57%) SAP