Cloud Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 118 133
Rank change year-on-year +23 +15 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 16 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.54% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.59% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 26
10th Percentile £413 £356 £387
25th Percentile £461 £356 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £505
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.47% -3.81%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £634
90th Percentile £650 - £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +13 8 £475 +33.43% 10
West Midlands +12 8 £588 -9.62% 26
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Azure
1 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) DevOps
3 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (43.75%) Python
5 6 (37.50%) AWS
5 6 (37.50%) Terraform
6 5 (31.25%) Docker
6 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
6 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
7 4 (25.00%) Linux
7 4 (25.00%) Migration
7 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 3 (18.75%) Bicep
8 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (18.75%) Serverless
8 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
8 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
8 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
8 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (12.50%) Code Quality

Cloud Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Batch
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 2 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (12.50%) Data Lineage
6 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (12.50%) Data Science
6 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bicep
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Kibana
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) AppDynamics
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Google