Cloud Computing Contracts in England

Cloud Computing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 329 416
Rank change year-on-year +9 +87 -90
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 225 379 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.75% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 2.05% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 276 220
10th Percentile £316 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% +8.57%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £661
90th Percentile £775 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £564 £570
% change year-on-year +6.43% -1.10% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.88% +38.67%
75th Percentile £36.63 £30.56 £85.00
90th Percentile £67.45 £42.13 -
UK median hourly rate £18.75 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -1.32% -13.64% +12.82%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +13 126 £600 +4.35% 103
South West +1 33 £650 +1.96% 25
North of England +39 27 £450 -21.74% 87
North West +18 18 £450 -21.74% 59
South East +3 14 £225 -60.49% 37
East of England +17 9 £575 -9.80% 14
Yorkshire +21 6 £450 -37.93% 21
North East - 3 - - 7
West Midlands +16 2 £275 -47.62% 13
Midlands +4 2 £275 -43.88% 25
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (3.56%) Confluence
2 5 (2.22%) Apache
3 4 (1.78%) CMS
4 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Endur
2 3 (1.33%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.89%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.44%) Magento
4 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 92 (40.89%) Azure
2 72 (32.00%) AWS
3 59 (26.22%) PaaS
4 57 (25.33%) IaaS
5 55 (24.44%) SaaS
6 39 (17.33%) GCP
7 12 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (5.33%) Nutanix
7 12 (5.33%) Serverless
8 11 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.44%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.56%) Rubrik
11 7 (3.11%) Azure Storage
12 6 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.67%) ChatGPT
12 6 (2.67%) GitHub
13 4 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.78%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (18.67%) WAN
2 40 (17.78%) LAN
3 26 (11.56%) Firewall
4 19 (8.44%) DNS
5 16 (7.11%) VPN
6 15 (6.67%) TCP/IP
7 11 (4.89%) NAS
7 11 (4.89%) SAN
8 10 (4.44%) DHCP
9 9 (4.00%) Network Security
10 8 (3.56%) Internet
10 8 (3.56%) Kerberos
10 8 (3.56%) VLAN
10 8 (3.56%) WLAN
11 7 (3.11%) InfiniBand
11 7 (3.11%) IPsec
12 6 (2.67%) BGP
12 6 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (2.67%) OSPF
12 6 (2.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.33%) NoSQL
2 10 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.56%) Big Data
3 8 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.56%) MySQL
4 7 (3.11%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.22%) Bigtable
6 5 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.22%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.78%) Cloud Spanner
7 4 (1.78%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.33%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.33%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (6.22%) Git
2 11 (4.89%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.44%) JIRA
4 9 (4.00%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.33%) GitLab
6 3 (1.33%) JMeter
6 3 (1.33%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.33%) NeoLoad
6 3 (1.33%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.89%) webpack
8 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.44%) Moq
8 1 (0.44%) Postman
8 1 (0.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.44%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (22.67%) Public Sector
2 47 (20.89%) Finance
3 44 (19.56%) Social Skills
4 35 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.78%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.78%) Banking
7 12 (5.33%) Marketing
8 11 (4.89%) Telecoms
9 10 (4.44%) Electronics
10 8 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (3.11%) Law
12 5 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.33%) Legal
14 3 (1.33%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.89%) Retail
16 1 (0.44%) Automotive
16 1 (0.44%) French Language
16 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (27.11%) Architect
2 28 (12.44%) Network Architect
3 23 (10.22%) Senior
4 18 (8.00%) Analyst
5 15 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (5.78%) Consultant
7 13 (5.78%) Developer
8 12 (5.33%) Support Engineer
9 11 (4.89%) Network Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Business Analyst
13 7 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) Enterprise Architect
14 6 (2.67%) Network Specialist
14 6 (2.67%) Senior Network Engineer
14 6 (2.67%) Software Engineer
15 5 (2.22%) Cloud Architect
15 5 (2.22%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.78%) React
2 12 (5.33%) LDAP
2 12 (5.33%) RESTful
3 9 (4.00%) .NET
3 9 (4.00%) HTML
4 7 (3.11%) PyTorch
4 7 (3.11%) TensorFlow
5 6 (2.67%) Hugging Face
5 6 (2.67%) LangChain
6 5 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.22%) JSON
6 5 (2.22%) Kafka
6 5 (2.22%) Node.js
7 3 (1.33%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.33%) CSS
7 3 (1.33%) EDI
7 3 (1.33%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.33%) Middleware
7 3 (1.33%) Next.js
7 3 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.89%) IoT
3 10 (4.44%) Clustering
3 10 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.56%) Replication
5 7 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.11%) PKI
5 7 (3.11%) Robotics
6 6 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.22%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.78%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.89%) Windows
2 26 (11.56%) Linux
3 18 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.56%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (3.56%) Solaris
5 8 (3.56%) Unix
6 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.78%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.89%) CentOS
8 2 (0.89%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (22.67%) Agile
3 45 (20.00%) DevOps
4 38 (16.89%) Business Strategy
5 37 (16.44%) Open Source
6 30 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (12.44%) Computer Science
7 28 (12.44%) Network Management
8 27 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 27 (12.00%) Zero Trust
9 26 (11.56%) CI/CD
10 24 (10.67%) Migration
11 23 (10.22%) Machine Learning
12 21 (9.33%) Change Management
13 20 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 18 (8.00%) Roadmaps
15 17 (7.56%) High Availability
16 16 (7.11%) Microservices
17 15 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
18 14 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 41 (18.22%) Python
1 41 (18.22%) SQL
2 29 (12.89%) Java
2 29 (12.89%) PowerShell
3 20 (8.89%) JavaScript
4 15 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 12 (5.33%) C#
6 11 (4.89%) Bash
7 8 (3.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.67%) C
9 4 (1.78%) Scala
10 3 (1.33%) ABAP
10 3 (1.33%) C++
10 3 (1.33%) Go
11 2 (0.89%) Clojure
11 2 (0.89%) Haskell
11 2 (0.89%) Perl
11 2 (0.89%) PHP
11 2 (0.89%) Rust
11 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.11%) Degree
3 32 (14.22%) DV Cleared
4 24 (10.67%) SC Cleared
5 20 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.33%) CCIE
8 3 (1.33%) CCNA
8 3 (1.33%) CCNP
9 2 (0.89%) CSPO
9 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.89%) MCP
9 2 (0.89%) MCSE
9 2 (0.89%) MOS
10 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) CISM
10 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.44%) Data Quality
1 10 (4.44%) GDPR
2 8 (3.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.33%) QA
4 3 (1.33%) SLA
5 2 (0.89%) COBIT
5 2 (0.89%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) EMIR
6 1 (0.44%) FATCA
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (10.22%) Active Directory
2 22 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (8.00%) Docker
4 11 (4.89%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.22%) vSphere
7 4 (1.78%) NFS
8 2 (0.89%) HDFS
8 2 (0.89%) KVM
8 2 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.44%) Firmware
9 1 (0.44%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 28 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.33%) Terraform
3 17 (7.56%) Ansible
4 8 (3.56%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.56%) Netcool
4 8 (3.56%) Tivoli
4 8 (3.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (3.11%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.22%) Grafana
6 5 (2.22%) SCCM
7 3 (1.33%) Kibana
8 2 (0.89%) Puppet
8 2 (0.89%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.44%) yum
9 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (20.44%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.11%) Oracle
3 24 (10.67%) VMware
4 20 (8.89%) Google
5 19 (8.44%) Cisco
6 17 (7.56%) SAP
7 14 (6.22%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.89%) Splunk
9 9 (4.00%) Dell
9 9 (4.00%) HP
9 9 (4.00%) IBM
10 8 (3.56%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.56%) EMC
10 8 (3.56%) Isilon
10 8 (3.56%) Qualys
10 8 (3.56%) Serena
11 7 (3.11%) Juniper
12 6 (2.67%) Palo Alto
13 5 (2.22%) Citrix
13 5 (2.22%) Extreme Networks