Shopify Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Shopify
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Shopify skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Shopify 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.063% - -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £538 - -
England median daily rate £500 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +33.33% +7.14% -

All Business Application Skills
West Midlands

Shopify falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 209 83 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.62% 6.10% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 41 81
10th Percentile £381 £413 £375
25th Percentile £413 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% +7.84%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £732 £663 £775
England median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.26% +4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £27.84 - -
25th Percentile £28.65 - £14.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £24.65
Median % change year-on-year - - -68.19%
75th Percentile £30.14 - £26.98
90th Percentile £30.22 - £28.75
England median hourly rate £55.72 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.13% +50.00% -18.37%

Shopify
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Shopify relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Shopify job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Shopify
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Shopify.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Shopify

Shopify
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shopify in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Shopify in the West Midlands

Shopify
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shopify within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bilston - 1 £550 -
Warwickshire - 1 £425 - 1
Shopify
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Vite
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Laravel
1 1 (50.00%) LEMP Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes