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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - +62
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 8 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% - 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% - 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile £501 - £418
25th Percentile £563 - £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £669
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.59%
75th Percentile £703 - £758
90th Percentile £900 - £813
England median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -8.33%

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 969 792 938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.50% 28.91% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 471 593
10th Percentile £243 £240 £264
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £663 £738 £710
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 43
10th Percentile - £15.13 £17.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.10 £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.67 £26.23 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -4.61% +55.90%
75th Percentile £43.12 £53.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.05 £69.75
England median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%

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

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 - 7 £575 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 2
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
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 3 (37.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP GRC
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Stack
3 3 (37.50%) Datadog
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (37.50%) npm
3 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 3 (37.50%) Pulumi
4 2 (25.00%) IaaS
4 2 (25.00%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Artifactory
2 3 (37.50%) CircleCI
2 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) Gradle
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) JUnit
2 3 (37.50%) Maven
2 3 (37.50%) Postman
2 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Snyk
2 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
2 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (37.50%) webpack
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (37.50%) JSON
2 3 (37.50%) YAML
3 1 (12.50%) RAML
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Basis
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Budget Control
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) EAM
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Go
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Podman
1 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
1 3 (37.50%) Puppet
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
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