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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 138 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 13 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.29% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 0.80% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 0
10th Percentile - £501 -
25th Percentile £600 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% - -
75th Percentile £725 £703 -
90th Percentile £750 £900 -
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +1.38%

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 1,412 999 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.30% 36.82% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 633 460
10th Percentile £306 £253 £208
25th Percentile £413 £386 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £668 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 67 20
10th Percentile £12.95 - £15.46
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.15 £32.21
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -21.91% +17.12%
75th Percentile £43.96 £42.23 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.59 £50.00 £57.40
England median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +16.67% -47.69% +24.59%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 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 2 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 -34 13 £675 +17.30% 7
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 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Datadog
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (53.85%) OpenShift
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (7.69%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) GitLab
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Gradle
2 1 (7.69%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) Snyk
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 6 (46.15%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Site Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Migration Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 7 (53.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (53.85%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
2 7 (53.85%) Data Protection
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Observability
2 7 (53.85%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (53.85%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (53.85%) Runbook
2 7 (53.85%) Task Automation
3 6 (46.15%) BCP
3 6 (46.15%) Business Continuity
3 6 (46.15%) Business Continuity Planning
3 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (46.15%) Incident Management
3 6 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) Architecture Governance
5 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Bash
1 6 (46.15%) Go
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (61.54%) Ansible
3 7 (53.85%) Grafana
3 7 (53.85%) Progress Chef
3 7 (53.85%) Prometheus
3 7 (53.85%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) Podman
4 1 (7.69%) PowerCLI
4 1 (7.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Splunk
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) VMware