Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 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
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 100 109
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 6 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.33% 0.58% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.62% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 9
10th Percentile - £345 £392
25th Percentile £525 £485 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +0.92%
75th Percentile £813 £694 £638
90th Percentile £892 £713 £740
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,626 1,776 1,947
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.14% 93.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,050 1,127 1,331
10th Percentile £235 £243 £225
25th Percentile £380 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -3.03%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £669 £713 £713
England median daily rate £510 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 62 61
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.60 £14.54
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.44 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.05 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% -0.25% +22.78%
75th Percentile £38.13 £33.83 £31.04
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Birmingham +2 3 £892 +32.15% 4
Shropshire - 1 £540 -
Worcestershire - 1 £550 -
Herefordshire - 1 £550 - 1
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 September 2025, 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 West Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) Grafana
3 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Liquibase
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Data Encryption
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Commvault
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam