Cloud Computing Contracts in the South West

Cloud Computing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 115 154
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 -39
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 30 55 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.95% 1.55% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 4.52% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 46 13
10th Percentile £618 £400 £273
25th Percentile £625 £503 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +35.14% -11.90%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £573
90th Percentile - - £595
England median daily rate £600 £575 £552
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.17% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate £18.75 £18.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% -28.85% +38.67%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 793 1,216 1,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.14% 34.27% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 979 859
10th Percentile £205 £298 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £592
90th Percentile £688 £719 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 56 22
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.40 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.69 £18.13
Median hourly rate £15.20 £51.68 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.60% +106.70% -44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £53.78
England median hourly rate £20.97 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -35.08% +51.55% +0.95%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Wiltshire +2 27 £650 -5.45% 4
Bristol +10 2 £579 +5.23% 7
Devon - 1 £600 - 3
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 28 (93.33%) IaaS
1 28 (93.33%) PaaS
1 28 (93.33%) SaaS
2 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 27 (90.00%) LAN
1 27 (90.00%) WAN
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
General
1 27 (90.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (90.00%) Architect
1 27 (90.00%) Network Architect
2 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (90.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
1 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Open Source
2 27 (90.00%) Business Strategy
2 27 (90.00%) Network Management
2 27 (90.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (6.67%) Project Management
5 1 (3.33%) Customer Service
5 1 (3.33%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (96.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.67%) VMware
2 1 (3.33%) Veritas