Systems Architect Contract Job Trends in Telford

System Architect
Shropshire > Telford

The median System Architect daily rate in Telford is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Architect 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 532 113 96
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.87% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 76 66
10th Percentile £358 £400 £343
25th Percentile £405 £450 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £494 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -3.89% -4.46%
75th Percentile £515 £537 £536
90th Percentile £575 £541 £538
Shropshire median daily rate £459 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -5.07% -3.30% -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 5
10th Percentile £25.15 - -
25th Percentile £31.68 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 £12.18 £15.00
% change year-on-year +331.03% -18.80% -72.73%

Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Systems Architect job vacancy trend in Telford

Systems Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Systems Architect job vacancies in Telford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Systems Architect job vacancies in Telford

Systems Architect Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 24 April 2026, Systems 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 Telford region featuring Systems Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Case Management
1 3 (100.00%) Pega
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) JMS
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) SFIA
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements

Systems Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Case Management
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) SFIA
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Pega
Systems Architect jobs