Cloud Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 109 165
Rank change year-on-year +6 +56 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 8 20 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.39% 0.90% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.96% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 8
10th Percentile £392 £368 £416
25th Percentile £487 £443 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +4.65% +7.50%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £626
90th Percentile - - £711
England median daily rate £550 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% +9.52%

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 1,870 2,090 3,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 94.44% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,426 2,483
10th Percentile £250 £260 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 63 67
10th Percentile £12.02 £12.50 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.75 £14.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £39.69 £28.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.75 £24.05
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer 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 12 June 2024.

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 12 June 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
Coventry +10 5 £650 +36.84% 3
Birmingham +12 1 £425 -29.17% 5
Solihull -11 1 £345 +15.00% 1
Shropshire - 1 £523 -
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) DNS
3 5 (62.50%) Network Security
3 5 (62.50%) Retail
3 5 (62.50%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (62.50%) VPN
3 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (62.50%) SAML
3 5 (62.50%) Data Security
3 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) Defensive Programming
3 5 (62.50%) CloudFront
3 5 (62.50%) OAuth
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (62.50%) OAuth2
3 5 (62.50%) AWS Certification
3 5 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) Docker
3 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (62.50%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 5 (62.50%) Task Automation
3 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
3 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (62.50%) Application Security
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security

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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) CloudFront
2 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) Network Security
2 5 (62.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth2
1 5 (62.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Application Security
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
1 5 (62.50%) Data Security
1 5 (62.50%) Defensive Programming
1 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
1 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (62.50%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Task Automation
1 5 (62.50%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) API Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bicep
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware