Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cloud Platform Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.35% - 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - -

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 778 494 705
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 91.14% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 352 487
10th Percentile £263 £190 £237
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £571
90th Percentile £686 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 35
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.90 £12.35
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -21.05% +73.97%
75th Percentile £26.10 £30.68 £51.88
90th Percentile £30.00 £48.14 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.12 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +32.21% -15.56% +26.98%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 1 March 2026, Cloud Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) DFS Replication
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) FTP
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Groovy
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Linux

Cloud Platform 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) FTP
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSH
2 1 (33.33%) IMAP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Vagrant
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) DFS Replication
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Dovecot
2 1 (33.33%) Postfix
2 1 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Nessus
3 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
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