Private Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 22 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 - 130
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 10 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.27% - 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% - 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.95%
75th Percentile £664 - £688
90th Percentile £673 - -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%

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 1,206 620 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.85% 30.11% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 731 374 547
10th Percentile £200 £180 £213
25th Percentile £365 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +2.98%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
England median daily rate £510 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 80
10th Percentile £15.82 £14.37 £11.32
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.67 £14.56
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.59 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -3.56% +21.90%
75th Percentile £27.00 £30.68 £43.81
90th Percentile £30.60 £46.57 £67.50
England median hourly rate £32.75 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.49% +13.85% +44.44%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
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 22 February 2026. 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 - 10 £575 - 2
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
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 4 (40.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Datadog
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 4 (40.00%) npm
2 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (40.00%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (40.00%) CircleCI
1 4 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
1 4 (40.00%) Gradle
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (40.00%) JUnit
1 4 (40.00%) Maven
1 4 (40.00%) Postman
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium
1 4 (40.00%) Snyk
1 4 (40.00%) SonarQube
1 4 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 4 (40.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (40.00%) JSON
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (60.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Podman
1 4 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (40.00%) Puppet
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Denodo
3 2 (20.00%) Talend