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 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 105 134
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 -13
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 13 24 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.64% 1.08% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 3.26% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 20 32
10th Percentile £650 - £454
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 £753
90th Percentile £760 £779 £1,100
England median daily rate £600 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +9.09%

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 628 736 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.75% 33.26% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 478 734
10th Percentile £271 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 18
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.77 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.54 £15.06
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% +61.76% +3.37%
75th Percentile £40.38 £30.00 £23.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £36.58
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

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 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
Birmingham +10 6 £700 - 6
Warwickshire -4 2 - -
Coventry - 2 £675 -
Staffordshire - 1 - - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (23.08%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Designer
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Citrix Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector Programme Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) ADO
2 1 (7.69%) BREW
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Release Train
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) Data Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) R
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) XenApp
1 1 (7.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) F5
3 1 (7.69%) Ivanti
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Qualys
3 1 (7.69%) Sage
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Zscaler