Cloud Computing Contracts in the West Midlands

Cloud Computing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 113 157
Rank change year-on-year +9 +44 -37
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 2 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.71% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 1.93% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 7
10th Percentile - - £427
25th Percentile - £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +6.06% +4.21%
75th Percentile - £600 £525
90th Percentile - £790 £580
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.30% +4.55% +5.77%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 461 831 1,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.39% 36.82% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 589 894
10th Percentile £210 £298 £213
25th Percentile £343 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 16
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.54 £13.75
25th Percentile £15.13 £15.98 £15.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +7.95% +17.19%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.95
90th Percentile - £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%

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
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 18 May 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
Solihull - 1 £345 -
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft