Software Architecture Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Software Architecture
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £671 £600 £638
% change year-on-year +11.88% -5.88% +27.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Software Architecture 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 659 155 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 89.66% 92.26% 74.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 107 60
10th Percentile £358 £305 £196
25th Percentile £413 £400 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £358
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +28.49% -33.08%
75th Percentile £527 £537 £499
90th Percentile £626 £549 £519
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 2
10th Percentile £18.30 £26.13 £10.78
25th Percentile £44.82 £27.59 £11.32
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.31 £12.21
Median % change year-on-year +67.70% +156.39% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £36.30 £13.11
90th Percentile £60.62 £38.53 £13.64
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.28 £18.50
% change year-on-year +52.59% +20.41% -32.11%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Software Architecture job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Software Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
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 Software Architecture within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 31 July 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 £671 - 1
Software Architecture
West Midlands

Software Architecture
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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes