Public Cloud Contracts in the West Midlands

Public Cloud
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 110 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 12 30 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 1.26% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 3.91% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 32
10th Percentile £650 - £485
25th Percentile £656 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +52.22%
75th Percentile £750 £701 £875
90th Percentile £760 £805 £1,100
England median daily rate £610 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -2.40% +2.04% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 645 768 1,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.23% 32.21% 28.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 525 722
10th Percentile £307 £263 £257
25th Percentile £363 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £584
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 19 26
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.71 £17.99 £12.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.00 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +51.32% -5.71%
75th Percentile £40.25 £52.50 £17.70
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.50 £19.38
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the West Midlands

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the West Midlands

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 5 £700 - 4
Warwickshire +1 3 - - 1
Coventry - 2 £675 - 1
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) BGP
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) OSPF
3 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Designer
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Test Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) ERP Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) ERP Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector Programme Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Release Train
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Data Science
4 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) F5
2 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (8.33%) Qualys
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk