Cloud Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £523 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 133 188
Rank change year-on-year +15 +55 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 15 34 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.54% 0.99% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.04% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 15
10th Percentile £356 £387 £390
25th Percentile £356 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -3.81% +40.00%
75th Percentile £675 £634 £600
90th Percentile - £650 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +14.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,532 3,256 4,825
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.60% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 2,290 3,537
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 128 174
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.35 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.21 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.19
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.33% +13.18%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.88 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £61.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +11 10 £650 +23.81% 11
East Midlands +18 5 £356 -17.93% 12
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) Windows
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (66.67%) Docker
2 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Azure
4 7 (46.67%) DevOps
5 6 (40.00%) DNS
5 6 (40.00%) Python
5 6 (40.00%) Finance
5 6 (40.00%) JIRA
5 6 (40.00%) Network Security
5 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
6 5 (33.33%) AppDynamics
6 5 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
6 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
6 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
6 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
6 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (33.33%) OAuth2
6 5 (33.33%) Progress Chef
6 5 (33.33%) OpenShift
6 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
6 5 (33.33%) Defensive Programming
6 5 (33.33%) CloudFront
6 5 (33.33%) OAuth
6 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) CloudFront
3 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 5 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 5 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
1 6 (40.00%) Network Security
2 5 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 5 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Retail
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 5 (33.33%) SAML
1 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) JDBC
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Application Security
3 5 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 5 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (33.33%) Data Security
3 5 (33.33%) Defensive Programming
3 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
3 5 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 5 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 2 (13.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kibana
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Sage
3 1 (6.67%) VMware