Private Cloud Contracts in the Midlands

Private Cloud
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 137 139
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +56
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 3 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.14% 0.10% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.33% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £466 - £454
25th Percentile £629 £663 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £688 £696
90th Percentile - - £813
England median daily rate £595 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +10.59% -13.92% +7.76%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Private 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 751 898 1,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.91% 30.41% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 566 690
10th Percentile £230 £220 £275
25th Percentile £367 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £600
90th Percentile £649 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 61 38
10th Percentile £13.81 £10.42 £18.78
25th Percentile £18.60 £13.91 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.67 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.34% -30.91% +46.67%
75th Percentile £43.12 £33.93 £52.19
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.65
% change year-on-year -11.32% +56.48% -10.77%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the Midlands

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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 Private Cloud within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 June 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 +6 2 £900 +33.33% 15
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 5
Private Cloud
England

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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 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Stack
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RAML
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Control
2 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle