Public Cloud Contracts in the Midlands

Public Cloud
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 115 133
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 +23
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 8 18 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.65% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 2.10% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 25
10th Percentile £357 £445 -
25th Percentile £410 £473 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% -3.57% +10.89%
75th Percentile £578 £750 £703
90th Percentile £701 - £798
England median daily rate £618 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +2.92% -4.00% +2.04%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Public 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 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the Midlands

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the Midlands

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the Midlands

Public 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 Public Cloud within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Midlands +9 5 £475 +6.74% 5
West Midlands +5 3 £706 +0.89% 19
Public Cloud
England

Public 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Apigee
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Kong
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 3 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Java Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Java Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (12.50%) Django
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Flask
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) RAML
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) Swagger
3 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Budget Control
3 3 (37.50%) Contingency Planning
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 3 (37.50%) Project Planning
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISA
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) CASB
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft
1 1 (12.50%) Siemens
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk