Public Cloud Contracts in the Midlands

Public Cloud
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the 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 119 130 154
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 -12
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 22 28 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.75% 0.87% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 2.67% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 40
10th Percentile £445 - £428
25th Percentile £500 £625 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +14.29% +37.33%
75th Percentile £750 £702 £714
90th Percentile - £771 £1,100
England median daily rate £600 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 879 1,047 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.82% 32.53% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 690 1,054
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £611 £606 £575
90th Percentile £702 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 38 47
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.41 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.91 £20.22 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +56.61% +9.75%
75th Percentile £28.88 £54.69 £22.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £26.37
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 Midlands

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the Midlands

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the Midlands

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the Midlands

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud 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 +7 13 £700 - 9
East Midlands +5 9 £473 -32.50% 4
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) AWS
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (18.18%) SaaS
5 3 (13.64%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) LAN
1 2 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) DB2
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Billing
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Architect
2 7 (31.82%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Designer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Citrix Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux Build Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector Programme Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) .NET
1 4 (18.18%) React
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) ADO
3 1 (4.55%) BREW
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Android
1 4 (18.18%) Apple iOS
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) AIX
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
2 6 (27.27%) Waterfall
3 5 (22.73%) SDLC
4 4 (18.18%) API Design
4 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
4 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 4 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (18.18%) Microservices
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
5 3 (13.64%) FinOps
5 3 (13.64%) Release Train
5 3 (13.64%) Service Management
6 2 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) Data Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) Design Patterns
6 2 (9.09%) IT Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) C
1 4 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) R
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Server
2 1 (4.55%) XenApp
2 1 (4.55%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.55%) PowerBroker
1 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.55%) SCCM
1 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) Citrix
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) Ivanti
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Qualys
3 1 (4.55%) Sage
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Zscaler