Software Developer Contract Job Trends in Telford

Software Developer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Software Developer daily rate in Telford is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 25 12
Rank change year-on-year -27 -13 +73
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.89% 2.38% 9.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 2.82% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £415 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £345 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.64% - -
75th Percentile £445 £353 -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median daily rate £430 £345 -
% change year-on-year +24.64% - -

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 202 71 40
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 84.52% 97.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 62 24
10th Percentile £350 £217 £229
25th Percentile £430 £313 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.70% -3.65% -9.43%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £528
90th Percentile £552 £567 £583
Shropshire median daily rate £500 £443 £475
% change year-on-year +12.99% -6.84% -10.29%
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% - -

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Software Developer job vacancy trend in Telford

Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) EJB
2 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ

Software 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) EJB
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) J2SE
1 1 (50.00%) Java EE
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) webMethods