Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Cloud Security
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.18% - 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% - 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 - £485
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.62%
75th Percentile - - £503
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Cloud Security 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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 484 133 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.51% 96.38% 62.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 79 32
10th Percentile £359 £222 £266
25th Percentile £410 £334 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +15.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £525 £514 £453
90th Percentile £560 £540 £531
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 £11.32
90th Percentile £45.20 £21.32 £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £18.13 £22.75
% change year-on-year +26.86% -20.31% +28.39%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Cloud Security
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 Security within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 19 March 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 - 1 £639 - 1
Cloud Security
West Midlands

Cloud Security
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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) GSEC
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft