Cloud Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £474, 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 128 132 186
Rank change year-on-year +4 +54 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 13 26 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.44% 0.81% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.85% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 12
10th Percentile - £331 £360
25th Percentile £356 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £478 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -11.16% +14.36%
75th Percentile £675 £641 £644
90th Percentile - £650 £700
England median daily rate £550 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,719 3,042 4,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.50% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 2,147 3,499
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £569
90th Percentile £675 £692 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 113 146
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.00 £14.67
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.71 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +13.45% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
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 Midlands

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the 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 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
West Midlands +6 8 £650 +15.56% 10
East Midlands +7 5 £356 -20.00% 15
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Docker
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Azure
4 7 (53.85%) DevOps
5 6 (46.15%) JIRA
5 6 (46.15%) DNS
6 5 (38.46%) RDBMS
6 5 (38.46%) Perl
6 5 (38.46%) Linux
6 5 (38.46%) JBoss
6 5 (38.46%) Python
6 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
6 5 (38.46%) SAML
6 5 (38.46%) Data Security
6 5 (38.46%) Finance
6 5 (38.46%) Migration
6 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (38.46%) Network Security
6 5 (38.46%) Retail
6 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
6 5 (38.46%) OAuth
6 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (38.46%) TeamCity
6 5 (38.46%) Git
6 5 (38.46%) Kibana
6 5 (38.46%) Microservices
6 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (38.46%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) CloudFront
3 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 5 (38.46%) OpenShift
3 5 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) Network Security
2 5 (38.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (38.46%) RDBMS
1 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (38.46%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (38.46%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
2 5 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (38.46%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Retail
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth2
1 5 (38.46%) SAML
1 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Application Security
3 5 (38.46%) Build Automation
3 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 5 (38.46%) Code Quality
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (38.46%) Data Security
3 5 (38.46%) Defensive Programming
3 5 (38.46%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
3 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (38.46%) Incident Response
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (38.46%) Microservices
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
3 5 (38.46%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Perl
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bicep
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
1 10 (76.92%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kibana
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
1 5 (38.46%) Progress Chef
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) AppDynamics
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
1 5 (38.46%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) VMware