Cloud Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 72 86
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.53% 0.54% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.57% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £320 £539
25th Percentile £413 £406 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% -9.43% +103.85%
75th Percentile £438 £644 £772
90th Percentile - £648 £834
West Midlands median daily rate £650 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +28.71% -3.81% +61.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 697 883 1,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 95.67% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 597 956
10th Percentile £250 £263 £205
25th Percentile £325 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 32 20
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.10 £12.45
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £16.99
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +17.72% -5.61%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.47 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £63.13 £20.23
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.28
% change year-on-year +18.42% +9.95% +6.34%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Birmingham region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) ODBC
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Sage
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) VMware

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JDBC
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) ODBC
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Sage
2 1 (25.00%) VMware