Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Public Cloud
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 67 71
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.97% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 1.08% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £515 - £360
25th Percentile £518 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £721 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.92%
75th Percentile £892 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £700 £625 £675
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +35.00%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 259 185 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 41.91% 25.80% 36.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 109 166
10th Percentile £249 £158 £270
25th Percentile £383 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £663 £588
90th Percentile £600 £738 £678
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 17
10th Percentile - £32.30 £26.25
25th Percentile - £50.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £53.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.73% -17.69% +261.11%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £31.75 £58.90 £68.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £32.21 £27.50
% change year-on-year -6.85% +17.12% +44.74%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Birmingham

Public Cloud
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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Liquibase
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) GCP Software Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (83.33%) REST
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (83.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 5 (83.33%) Cryptography
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Data Encryption
4 3 (50.00%) Data Security
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Go
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Commvault
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam