Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Cloud Architect
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Shropshire is £670, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.49% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - -
75th Percentile £715 - -
90th Percentile £742 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £588 £603 £506
% change year-on-year -2.57% +19.11% -22.12%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 559 131 96
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 90.34% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 81 59
10th Percentile £358 £307 £260
25th Percentile £403 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £463 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -11.06% -3.35%
75th Percentile £523 £519 £536
90th Percentile £563 £540 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £485 £475
% change year-on-year - +2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 6
10th Percentile £22.42 - £14.94
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £12.18 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +331.03% -18.80% -59.11%
75th Percentile £65.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.00 £18.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.41% -17.59% +18.92%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Shropshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Shropshire

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in Shropshire over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in Shropshire

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Telford - 3 £670 -
Cloud Architect
West Midlands

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 2 April 2026, Cloud Architect 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 Shropshire region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Denodo
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) SAS
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (33.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Hackathon
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Server-Driven UI
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Denodo
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Talend