Cloud Computing Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Computing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 102 131 146
Rank change year-on-year +29 +15 +34
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 9 2 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.073% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 0.29% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 18
10th Percentile £69 - -
25th Percentile £75 £263 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £275 £490
Median % change year-on-year +33.45% -43.88% -6.67%
75th Percentile £459 £288 £589
90th Percentile £589 - £765
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +1.77%

All Cloud Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the Midlands

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the Midlands

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the Midlands

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the Midlands

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the 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 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
East Midlands - 7 £367 - 9
West Midlands +14 2 - - 21
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (22.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Google App Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) 3G
1 1 (11.11%) 3GPP
1 1 (11.11%) 4G
1 1 (11.11%) 5G
1 1 (11.11%) LTE
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Eclipse
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) NetBeans
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Games
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Head of IT
3 1 (11.11%) Head of IT Security
3 1 (11.11%) Head of Security
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
1 2 (22.22%) POSIX
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 1 (11.11%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Data Security
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Scala
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) CISSP
4 1 (11.11%) MCP
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 1 (11.11%) PMP
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) MISRA
2 2 (22.22%) MISRA C
2 2 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (11.11%) IEC 61508
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) QNX
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Perforce