Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - 166
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% - 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% - 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £579 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile £685 - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Cloud Engineer
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 Senior Cloud Engineer 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 - 2 £534 - 7
West Midlands - 2 £650 - 12
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Bicep
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Batch
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Batch
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft