Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Public Cloud
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 53 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 +30
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 8 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.91% 0.51% 1.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.69% 1.91% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £470 £374 -
25th Percentile £518 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year +42.12% -6.53% -18.10%
75th Percentile £775 £467 £575
90th Percentile £842 £481 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 297 157 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.67% 26.48% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 79 113
10th Percentile £185 £180 £213
25th Percentile £355 £320 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £563
90th Percentile £625 £613 £695
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 10
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.57 £16.47
25th Percentile £17.50 £14.56 £16.93
Median hourly rate £21.25 £23.43 £20.76
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +12.89% +18.19%
75th Percentile £25.15 £37.57 £47.93
90th Percentile £25.83 £48.03 £93.75
England median hourly rate £28.13 £37.00 £43.92
% change year-on-year -23.99% -15.76% +25.49%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the East Midlands

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Nottinghamshire - 5 £825 -
Derbyshire - 2 - -
Northamptonshire -14 1 £437 -1.58%
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (62.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (50.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Programme Manager
1 5 (62.50%) SAP Manager
1 5 (62.50%) SAP Programme Manager
2 2 (25.00%) CloudOps Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Implementation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ERP
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Escalation Management
3 3 (37.50%) Programme Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Operations Management
4 2 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) SAP Implementation
4 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft