Innovative Thinking Contract Job Trends in Telford

Innovative Thinking
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Innovative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 1.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - -
75th Percentile £482 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £442 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

Innovative Thinking 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 325 100 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 87.37% 95.24% 58.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 67 25
10th Percentile £401 £313 £358
25th Percentile £449 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £477 £448
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +6.47% -17.04%
75th Percentile £537 £522 £500
90th Percentile £562 £567 £535
Shropshire median daily rate £492 £472 £410
% change year-on-year +4.24% +15.12% -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%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Innovative Thinking job vacancy trend in Telford

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Innovative Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Innovative Thinking

Innovative Thinking
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 (75.00%) Confluence
2 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Ingres
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Actian