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 17 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	185	149	-
Rank change year-on-year	-36	-	-
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud	13	9	0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands	0.26%	0.32%	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.92%	0.85%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	11	9	0
10^th Percentile	-	£522	-
25^th Percentile	£600	£563	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£675	£575	-
Median % change year-on-year	+17.30%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£725	£638	-
90^th Percentile	£750	£900	-
England median daily rate	£600	£575	£575
% change year-on-year	+4.35%	-	+4.55%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	1,418	1,055	777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands	28.42%	38.03%	29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted	804	663	461
10^th Percentile	£284	£263	£208
25^th Percentile	£413	£383	£358
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£488	£475	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+2.63%	-5.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£600	£575	£625
90^th Percentile	£700	£669	£725
England median daily rate	£525	£525	£546
% change year-on-year	-	-3.85%	-0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted	172	70	20
10^th Percentile	£12.85	£18.83	£15.46
25^th Percentile	£14.23	£18.87	£20.30
Median hourly rate	£23.56	£25.08	£27.53
Median % change year-on-year	-6.03%	-8.91%	+0.10%
75^th Percentile	£33.99	£40.46	£51.25
90^th Percentile	£67.84	£50.00	£55.45
England median hourly rate	£33.60	£29.27	£54.00
% change year-on-year	+14.79%	-45.80%	+17.31%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Private Cloud Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the Midlands

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 17 October 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	-36	13	£675	+17.30%	6
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Private Cloud Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Private Cloud also mentioned 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 with a requirement for Private Cloud.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Kubernetes	92.3%	12
2	AWS	84.6%	11
2	Azure	84.6%	11
4	Ansible	61.5%	8
4	CI/CD	61.5%	8
4	Infrastructure as Code	61.5%	8
4	Terraform	61.5%	8
8	Azure DevOps	53.8%	7
8	Capacity Planning	53.8%	7
8	Containerisation	53.8%	7
8	Data Protection	53.8%	7
8	Datadog	53.8%	7
8	DevOps	53.8%	7
8	Docker	53.8%	7
8	DV Cleared	53.8%	7
8	Elastic Stack	53.8%	7
8	GitHub	53.8%	7
8	GitHub Actions	53.8%	7
8	GitLab	53.8%	7
8	Grafana	53.8%	7
8	Jenkins	53.8%	7
8	Linux	53.8%	7
8	Observability	53.8%	7
8	OpenShift	53.8%	7
8	Performance Tuning	53.8%	7
8	Progress Chef	53.8%	7
8	Prometheus	53.8%	7
8	Puppet	53.8%	7
8	Root Cause Analysis	53.8%	7
8	Runbook	53.8%	7

Private Cloud Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Distributed Systems	53.8%	7
2	Public Cloud	30.8%	4
3	Data Protection Act	7.7%	1