Cloud Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 63 70
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 0.52% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.56% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £320
25th Percentile £413 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £542 £438 £644
90th Percentile £573 - £648
West Midlands median daily rate £588 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -9.62% +23.81% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management

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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft