Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 - 171
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% - 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% - 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £572
25th Percentile - - £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £620
75th Percentile - - £651
90th Percentile - - £664
England median daily rate £538 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -8.51% +2.17% +6.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,758 2,233 3,420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 94.90% 96.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 1,533 2,500
10th Percentile £259 £250 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £707 £694 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 79
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.41
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +12.85% +9.71%
75th Percentile £41.44 £26.82 £19.93
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £22.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the West Midlands

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the West Midlands

Cloud Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 - - 2
Warwickshire - 2 £375 -
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Cloud Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) YAML
2 2 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management

Cloud Platform 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform