Cloud Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Developer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 - 150
Rank change year-on-year - - +59
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.12% - 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £461 - -
25th Percentile £467 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 - £505
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.67%
75th Percentile £492 - £508
90th Percentile £497 - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -4.00%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,282 2,495 2,816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.46% 92.65% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 1,645 1,961
10th Percentile £220 £244 £225
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £554 £598 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 132 103
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.70 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.91 £14.27 £16.75
Median hourly rate £24.58 £19.80 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -7.93% +19.44%
75th Percentile £31.72 £35.00 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.91 £69.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -42.84% +0.32% +68.69%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Cloud Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the Midlands

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in the Midlands

Cloud Developer
DemandTrendContract 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 Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 3 £481 - 2
Cloud Developer
England

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Cloud Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Apigee
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills

Cloud Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Apigee
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google