Public Cloud Contracts in the City of London

Public Cloud
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 117 113
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 15 56 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 1.54% 1.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 4.29% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 46 64
10th Percentile £558 £519 £500
25th Percentile £625 £550 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £650 £615
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +5.69% +11.82%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £716
90th Percentile £775 £816 £864
Central London median daily rate £648 £650 £615
% change year-on-year -0.38% +5.69% +11.82%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 1,305 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.97% 35.88% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 891 1,104
10th Percentile £279 £350 £410
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £845 £860 £805
Central London median daily rate £575 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.97 £20.53
25th Percentile £16.00 £31.31 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £43.25 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.82% -9.90% +167.04%
75th Percentile £27.50 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £54.95 - £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) Azure
2 11 (73.33%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (26.67%) Azure AKS
4 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
7 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.67%) Serverless
7 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
3 2 (13.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Subversion
4 1 (6.67%) AppScan
4 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
4 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 1 (6.67%) GoCD
4 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Information Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Financial Leader
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (13.33%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) OpenID
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) DevOps
1 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (13.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (13.33%) Change Control
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (13.33%) FinOps
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) RBAC
3 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Ceph
3 1 (6.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
2 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (20.00%) Puppet
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Graylog
4 2 (13.33%) Nagios
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) CASB
5 1 (6.67%) Consul
5 1 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (6.67%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
5 1 (6.67%) Mesos
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (6.67%) Nessus
5 1 (6.67%) PingFederate
5 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (6.67%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Veracode