Software Engineering Contracts in Telford

Software Engineering
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 6 17 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 5.56% 14.53% 29.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 23.29% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 41
10th Percentile £456 £352 £500
25th Percentile £476 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +50.42% -33.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £605 £368 -
90th Percentile £632 £483 -
Shropshire median daily rate £539 £358 £540
% change year-on-year +50.42% -33.70% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

Software Engineering 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 105 73 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 97.22% 62.39% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 119
10th Percentile £315 £341 £412
25th Percentile £448 £358 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £545
90th Percentile £541 £520 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £484 £378 £538
% change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - £11.85 -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Telford

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Telford.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Telford

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Telford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Telford

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 2 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) Next.js
1 2 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Application Security
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Opsview
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) PagerDuty