Open Source Contract Job Trends in Telford

Open Source
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 1.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile £430 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £430 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

Open Source 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 216 73 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 96.43% 86.90% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 66 19
10th Percentile £375 £216 £383
25th Percentile £449 £313 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £427 £480
Median % change year-on-year +20.61% -11.04% -9.43%
75th Percentile £538 £514 £544
90th Percentile £552 £567 £588
Shropshire median daily rate £515 £420 £480
% change year-on-year +22.62% -12.50% -9.43%
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% - -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Telford

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Open Source.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Open Source

Open Source
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 4 (100.00%) Apache
1 4 (100.00%) JBoss
1 4 (100.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) EJB
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) J2SE
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) Play Framework
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Lean Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) webMethods