Cloud Computing Contracts in the West Midlands

Cloud Computing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 99 165
Rank change year-on-year +1 +66 +1
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 16 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.84% 0.87% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.76% 2.49% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 4
10th Percentile £345 £375 £251
25th Percentile £358 £420 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £498
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +20.60% +9.04%
75th Percentile £606 £738 £570
90th Percentile £726 £800 -
England median daily rate £575 £597 £570
% change year-on-year -3.69% +4.74% +3.64%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 580 683 1,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.61% 35.04% 37.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 504 935
10th Percentile £223 £200 £257
25th Percentile £363 £362 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -7.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £660
England median daily rate £535 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 10
10th Percentile £20.34 £17.50 £12.66
25th Percentile £28.14 £17.69 £15.82
Median hourly rate £33.74 £18.50 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year +82.35% +8.12% +10.39%
75th Percentile £35.00 £19.38 £17.93
90th Percentile - £30.33 £27.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% +45.45% +10.00%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the West Midlands

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the West Midlands

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the West Midlands

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the West Midlands

Cloud Computing
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 Computing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Warwickshire -3 6 £500 -44.44% 1
Birmingham +6 3 £725 -3.33% 6
Solihull - 3 £345 -
Herefordshire -7 1 £600 -14.29%
Shropshire -17 1 - - 2
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
1 8 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Azure AKS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Storage
3 2 (12.50%) dbt
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Games
6 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Marketing
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Services Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Services Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) ARM Templates
2 2 (12.50%) Flask
2 2 (12.50%) Pandas
2 2 (12.50%) React
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (50.00%) Migration
3 5 (31.25%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (18.75%) Budget Management
4 3 (18.75%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
4 3 (18.75%) Resource Allocation
4 3 (18.75%) Resource Management
4 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 2 (12.50%) Physics
5 2 (12.50%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (31.25%) Bash
3 5 (31.25%) Bicep
4 3 (18.75%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Perforce