Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 46 60
Rank change year-on-year -24 +14 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 7 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.78% 0.76% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.86% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £547 - -
25th Percentile £563 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% +8.82% -29.17%
75th Percentile £816 £542 £438
90th Percentile £892 £573 -
West Midlands median daily rate £680 £588 £650
% change year-on-year +15.74% -9.62% +28.71%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 816 467 693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 89.12% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 331 488
10th Percentile £319 £160 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £485 £488
% change year-on-year -1.03% -0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 28 40
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.10
25th Percentile £17.09 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £20.43 £14.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.93% -50.88% +42.50%
75th Percentile £26.10 £25.06 £48.75
90th Percentile £34.13 £37.22 £57.91
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +65.47% -19.42% +18.42%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 22 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 22 April 2026, Cloud Engineer 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 Birmingham region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Grafana
3 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (28.57%) GitLab
4 2 (28.57%) Go
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Liquibase
4 2 (28.57%) REST

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Liquibase
3 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Metasploit
3 1 (14.29%) sqlmap
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Data Encryption
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Grafana
3 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Google