Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 119 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 22 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.71% 0.13% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 -
75th Percentile £488 £488 -
90th Percentile £540 - -
England median daily rate £525 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.91% +4.76%

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 2,781 2,170 2,461
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.36% 92.93% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,762 1,370 1,699
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £363 £361 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £676
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 87 109
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.95 £14.23
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.97 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +19.10% +13.51%
75th Percentile £27.41 £32.01 £33.25
90th Percentile £40.25 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Midlands - 22 £475 - 1
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Cloud Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 21 (95.45%) AWS
3 20 (90.91%) DevOps
4 19 (86.36%) Cloud Security
4 19 (86.36%) Linux
4 19 (86.36%) SC Cleared
4 19 (86.36%) Security Cleared
4 19 (86.36%) Windows
5 18 (81.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (81.82%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (81.82%) Amazon ELB
5 18 (81.82%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (81.82%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (81.82%) Amazon S3
5 18 (81.82%) AWS KMS
5 18 (81.82%) Change Management
5 18 (81.82%) Configuration Management
5 18 (81.82%) Confluence
5 18 (81.82%) Docker
5 18 (81.82%) Git
5 18 (81.82%) Grafana
5 18 (81.82%) Groovy
5 18 (81.82%) Jenkins
5 18 (81.82%) JIRA
5 18 (81.82%) PowerShell
5 18 (81.82%) Prometheus
5 18 (81.82%) Python
5 18 (81.82%) ServiceNow
5 18 (81.82%) SMTP
5 18 (81.82%) Terraform

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (81.82%) Confluence
2 11 (50.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) AWS
2 18 (81.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 18 (81.82%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (81.82%) Amazon ELB
2 18 (81.82%) Amazon S3
2 18 (81.82%) AWS KMS
2 18 (81.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 12 (54.55%) Azure
4 11 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (50.00%) Route 53
5 7 (31.82%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (81.82%) SMTP
2 17 (77.27%) DNS
2 17 (77.27%) Firewall
2 17 (77.27%) FTP
2 17 (77.27%) HTTP
2 17 (77.27%) SSH
3 11 (50.00%) IMAP
3 11 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (81.82%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (81.82%) Git
1 18 (81.82%) Jenkins
1 18 (81.82%) JIRA
1 18 (81.82%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (45.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (81.82%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Linux
1 19 (86.36%) Windows
2 18 (81.82%) Amazon Linux
2 18 (81.82%) VMS
3 10 (45.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.55%) Unix
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 20 (90.91%) DevOps
3 19 (86.36%) Cloud Security
4 18 (81.82%) Change Management
4 18 (81.82%) Configuration Management
5 17 (77.27%) Patch Management
6 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (4.55%) Agile
7 1 (4.55%) Analytics
7 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.55%) High Availability
7 1 (4.55%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (4.55%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (4.55%) Process Improvement
7 1 (4.55%) Service Management
7 1 (4.55%) Test Strategy
7 1 (4.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) Groovy
1 18 (81.82%) PowerShell
1 18 (81.82%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Java
3 7 (31.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (86.36%) SC Cleared
1 19 (86.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (45.45%) AWS Certification
2 10 (45.45%) Azure Certification
2 10 (45.45%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Server+ Certification
System Software
1 18 (81.82%) Docker
2 17 (77.27%) DFS Replication
3 11 (50.00%) Dovecot
3 11 (50.00%) Postfix
3 11 (50.00%) Squid
4 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) Grafana
1 18 (81.82%) Prometheus
1 18 (81.82%) Terraform
2 11 (50.00%) Nessus
3 10 (45.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) ServiceNow
2 11 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk