Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Cloud Computing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.59% 1.95% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 5.80% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £483 £429 -
25th Percentile £513 £429 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.24% - -
75th Percentile £538 £430 -
90th Percentile - £430 -
West Midlands median daily rate £544 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +8.75% -13.04% -4.17%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Shropshire

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 265 69 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 31.14% 33.66% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 43 16
10th Percentile £399 £350 £239
25th Percentile £450 £430 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £515 £517
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% -0.39% +7.71%
75th Percentile £589 £540 £567
90th Percentile £663 £551 £570
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +2.65% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £33.38 - -
90th Percentile £45.60 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.15 £34.43 £33.74
% change year-on-year -24.05% +2.06% +82.35%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
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 Computing within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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 -46 5 £525 +22.24% 4
Cloud Computing
West Midlands

Cloud Computing
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Solaris Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AIX Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) SUSE
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IBM