Public Cloud Contracts in the Thames Valley

Public Cloud
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 126 128
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 13 22 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.75% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.34% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 24
10th Percentile £338 £310 £430
25th Percentile £480 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £595
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -13.03% +66.43%
75th Percentile £643 £697 £658
90th Percentile £649 £716 £763
South East median daily rate £595 £495 £545
% change year-on-year +20.20% -9.17% +3.81%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 795 939 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.75% 31.96% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 618 696
10th Percentile £205 £280 £200
25th Percentile £280 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 24 30
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +143.75% -21.57%
75th Percentile £59.97 £70.90 £26.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.57
South East median hourly rate £47.19 £51.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.93% +138.37% -33.85%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the Thames Valley

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the Thames Valley

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the Thames Valley

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire -17 8 £513 -0.97% 7
Buckinghamshire - 5 £628 - 1
Public Cloud
South East

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (23.08%) IaaS
3 3 (23.08%) PaaS
3 3 (23.08%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) MPLS
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Automotive
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) DBA
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) SAP FI Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior VMware Architect
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
2 4 (30.77%) Microservices
2 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) API Management
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
3 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
3 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Key Management
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) PHP
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) Ruby
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) CCNP
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) MCSE
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NCSC
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) Graylog
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Nagios
1 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
1 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) Zscaler