Public Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 107 111
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +43
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 7 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.38% 0.32% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 1.09% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £515 £523 £433
25th Percentile £520 £556 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +35.00%
75th Percentile £892 £706 £700
90th Percentile - £748 £728
England median daily rate £600 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

All Generic Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 718 548 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.87% 28.89% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 331 441
10th Percentile £246 £190 £275
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £674 £738 £725
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.27% -1.32% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 16 37
10th Percentile - £19.40 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.45 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.21 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +17.12% +44.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.31 £67.50
90th Percentile - £58.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £46.03
% change year-on-year -47.69% +24.59% +79.04%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 5 October 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 +9 6 £721 - 8
Warwickshire - 1 £700 -
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP GRC
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 5 (71.43%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Liquibase
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Financial Institution
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Software Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) GCP DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) GCP Software Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Access Control Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (71.43%) REST
2 5 (71.43%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) Cost Optimisation
2 5 (71.43%) Cryptography
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
4 3 (42.86%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (42.86%) Data Security
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Go
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Grafana
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (85.71%) Prometheus
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Commvault
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam