Cloud Specialist Contracts in London

Cloud Specialist
England > London

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in London is £516 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 463 539
Rank change year-on-year +81 +76 -68
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 15 22 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.085% 0.083% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.088% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 39
10th Percentile £500 £531 £463
25th Percentile £504 £560 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £564 £628 £647
90th Percentile £661 £681 £675
England median daily rate £536 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.73% - +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,380 25,121 37,063
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,833 18,239 27,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 285 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.24% +1.43% +7.89%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Cloud Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Specialist in London

Cloud Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Specialist in London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Specialist in London

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Specialist in London

Cloud Specialist
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
East London - 2 £500 -
South London - 1 £513 -
Cloud Specialist
England

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Cloud Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Cloud Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (40.00%) VMware
3 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (33.33%) Citrix
4 5 (33.33%) SCCM
4 5 (33.33%) Finance
5 4 (26.67%) Oracle
5 4 (26.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (20.00%) SLA
6 3 (20.00%) ITIL
6 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (20.00%) Time Management
7 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
7 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (13.33%) Agile
7 2 (13.33%) SQL
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) CI/CD

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) OCI
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) BGP
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
1 1 (6.67%) OSPF
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
1 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
1 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) Time Management
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Business Continuity
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.67%) Cost Control
4 1 (6.67%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (6.67%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (6.67%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CIPD
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) VMware
3 5 (33.33%) Citrix
3 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.67%) Juniper
5 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat