Senior Contract Job Trends in Telford

Senior
Shropshire > Telford

The median Senior daily rate in Telford is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 20 9
Rank change year-on-year -25 -11 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 15 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 5.54% 5.38% 15.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.05% 6.25% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £500 - -

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 248 80 38
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 86.02% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 65 22
10th Percentile £387 £313 £210
25th Percentile £431 £434 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £484 £478
Median % change year-on-year +5.42% +1.36% -9.91%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £500
90th Percentile £560 £558 £584
Shropshire median daily rate £500 £477 £475
% change year-on-year +4.82% +0.42% -10.38%
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% - -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Telford

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Telford

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Telford over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Telford

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Telford

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) Agile
3 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 9 (60.00%) Migration
4 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
4 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
4 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 7 (46.67%) GitLab
5 7 (46.67%) Java
5 7 (46.67%) Kibana
5 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
5 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (46.67%) Spring
5 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
6 6 (40.00%) Coaching
6 6 (40.00%) Grafana
6 6 (40.00%) Playwright
6 6 (40.00%) QA
7 5 (33.33%) Dynatrace
7 5 (33.33%) JPA
7 5 (33.33%) JSON
7 5 (33.33%) JUnit
7 5 (33.33%) Maven
7 5 (33.33%) Microservices
7 5 (33.33%) Mockito
7 5 (33.33%) Scrum
8 4 (26.67%) AI
8 4 (26.67%) Budget Management
8 4 (26.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting

Senior 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (20.00%) IaaS
4 3 (20.00%) PaaS
4 3 (20.00%) SaaS
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DHCP
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) GitLab
2 5 (33.33%) JUnit
2 5 (33.33%) Maven
2 5 (33.33%) Mockito
3 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) Selenium
4 2 (13.33%) Gatling
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Spring
1 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 6 (40.00%) Playwright
3 5 (33.33%) JPA
3 5 (33.33%) JSON
4 4 (26.67%) Gherkin
4 4 (26.67%) GraalVM
4 4 (26.67%) HTML
4 4 (26.67%) JDBC
4 4 (26.67%) OAuth
4 4 (26.67%) OAuth2
4 4 (26.67%) OpenID
4 4 (26.67%) React
5 2 (13.33%) Spring Batch
5 2 (13.33%) WireMock
6 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
6 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
6 1 (6.67%) REST
6 1 (6.67%) RESTful
6 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) Migration
3 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 6 (40.00%) Coaching
6 5 (33.33%) Microservices
6 5 (33.33%) Scrum
7 4 (26.67%) AI
7 4 (26.67%) Change Management
7 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (26.67%) Data Management
7 4 (26.67%) DevOps
7 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 4 (26.67%) OO
7 4 (26.67%) OOD
7 4 (26.67%) Performance Management
7 4 (26.67%) Project Management
7 4 (26.67%) Project Planning
7 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
7 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 4 (26.67%) WCAG
3 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Kibana
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (40.00%) Grafana
3 3 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 4 (26.67%) SAP
3 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
4 3 (20.00%) AppDynamics
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle
5 2 (13.33%) PagerDuty
5 2 (13.33%) Splunk