Senior Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Telford

Senior Java Developer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in Telford is £531, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 1.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £531 - -

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 161 69 42
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.44% 86.25% 97.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 60 26
10th Percentile £325 £284 £248
25th Percentile £409 £334 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% -2.86% -9.35%
75th Percentile £537 £520 £547
90th Percentile £545 £567 £588
Shropshire median daily rate £500 £456 £475
% change year-on-year +9.59% -3.95% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £18.68 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year -20.85% - -

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Senior Java Developer job vacancy trend in Telford

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in Telford

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 2025, Senior Java 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 Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) React

Senior Java 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) GraalVM
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle