Public Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 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 129 116 119
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +59
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 17 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.64% 0.58% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.75% 2.02% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 15
10th Percentile £442 £436 £429
25th Percentile £515 £445 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -25.93% +35.00%
75th Percentile £725 £619 £731
90th Percentile £891 £753 £783
England median daily rate £593 £567 £600
% change year-on-year +4.50% -5.50% -

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 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%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 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 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
East Midlands -4 10 £506 +13.71% 9
West Midlands -7 7 £613 -18.33% 8
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (23.53%) SAP ERP
3 1 (5.88%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Serverless
3 5 (29.41%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) Apigee
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Kong
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) Liquibase
3 3 (17.65%) GitLab
4 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Programme Manager
1 5 (29.41%) SAP Manager
1 5 (29.41%) SAP Programme Manager
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Java Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) RESTful
2 5 (29.41%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (29.41%) REST
3 3 (17.65%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) OpenID
5 1 (5.88%) RAML
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (5.88%) Spring
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.88%) Swagger
5 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
2 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 5 (29.41%) Cost Optimisation
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) ERP
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
4 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
4 4 (23.53%) Cryptography
4 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) Escalation Management
5 3 (17.65%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Go
3 3 (17.65%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) IAG
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (29.41%) Grafana
2 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) SAP
2 5 (29.41%) Splunk
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) Google
5 1 (5.88%) Commvault
5 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.88%) Veeam