Cloud Computing Contracts in the East Midlands

Cloud Computing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - 79
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 7 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.31% - 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.93% - 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £69 - £421
25th Percentile £75 - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.17%
75th Percentile £459 - £759
90th Percentile £589 - £800
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +1.77%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 142 212 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.49% 27.43% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 149 231
10th Percentile £240 £163 £181
25th Percentile £356 £310 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £538
90th Percentile £558 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile £13.25 - £14.57
25th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £15.09 £16.63 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -11.82% +10.26%
75th Percentile £19.50 £27.50 £24.43
90th Percentile £21.60 £32.10 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the East Midlands

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the East Midlands

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the East Midlands

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 3 £413 - 4
Nottinghamshire - 2 £70 - 2
Leicestershire - 2 £650 - 1
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Google App Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) 3G
1 1 (14.29%) 3GPP
1 1 (14.29%) 4G
1 1 (14.29%) 5G
1 1 (14.29%) LTE
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) NetBeans
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Games
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) POSIX
2 1 (14.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Scala
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) MISRA
1 2 (28.57%) MISRA C
1 2 (28.57%) QA
1 2 (28.57%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (14.29%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) QNX
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Perforce