Senior Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 96 -
Rank change year-on-year -45 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.24% 0.20% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £670 - -
25th Percentile £726 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.23% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £544 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% -7.69%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,234 1,357 1,776
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.36% 91.69% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 856 1,171
10th Percentile £263 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 57 127
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.90 £12.11
25th Percentile £17.09 £16.26 £15.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -2.22% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £43.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £46.18 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.87% - -5.74%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 February 2026. 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 - 4 £892 - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £680 - 1
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 9 February 2026, Senior Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Data Encryption
2 4 (66.67%) Data Security
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 4 (66.67%) Go
2 4 (66.67%) Grafana
2 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Liquibase

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Financial Institution
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (66.67%) REST
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
1 4 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Data Encryption
1 4 (66.67%) Data Security
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Go
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Google