Cloud Computing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 306 345
Rank change year-on-year +13 +39 -63
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 92 151 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.64% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.93% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 119 79
10th Percentile £268 £413 £299
25th Percentile £438 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £647 £588
90th Percentile - £694 £668
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £552
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.36% +10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.75 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year - -9.64% +6.41%
75th Percentile £36.63 £42.38 £23.00
90th Percentile £67.45 £55.28 £24.40
UK median hourly rate £18.75 £18.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -14.77% +12.82%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,280 7,819 9,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.73% 33.27% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 5,787 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £368 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 227 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South West -5 30 £650 +4.00% 17
North of England +37 29 £450 -21.74% 32
North West +25 17 £450 -21.74% 11
South East -4 15 £300 -44.95% 25
Yorkshire +31 9 £450 -37.93% 16
East of England +4 9 £575 -2.54% 10
Scotland +29 4 £550 +7.32% 9
Wales - 4 £91 - 3
North East - 3 - - 5
West Midlands +11 1 - - 10
Midlands +9 1 - - 19
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 6 (6.52%) Apache
2 5 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.09%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.04%) IaaS
1 35 (38.04%) PaaS
1 35 (38.04%) SaaS
2 20 (21.74%) Azure
3 19 (20.65%) AWS
4 13 (14.13%) GCP
5 4 (4.35%) GitHub
5 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.35%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.26%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.26%) Serverless
6 3 (3.26%) Vertex AI
6 3 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.17%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.17%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (32.61%) LAN
1 30 (32.61%) WAN
2 7 (7.61%) DNS
3 3 (3.26%) DHCP
3 3 (3.26%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) MQTT
3 3 (3.26%) VPN
4 2 (2.17%) Internet
4 2 (2.17%) SAN
4 2 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.09%) BGP
5 1 (1.09%) DSL
5 1 (1.09%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.09%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.09%) MPLS
5 1 (1.09%) OSPF
5 1 (1.09%) PPP
5 1 (1.09%) RIP
5 1 (1.09%) SNMP
5 1 (1.09%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) MySQL
1 7 (7.61%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.35%) Big Data
2 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.26%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.26%) Bigtable
3 3 (3.26%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.17%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.17%) Power BI
4 2 (2.17%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.09%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.09%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Git
2 3 (3.26%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.09%) GitLab
3 1 (1.09%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.09%) JMeter
3 1 (1.09%) JUnit
3 1 (1.09%) Spinnaker
3 1 (1.09%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (33.70%) Public Sector
2 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Finance
5 7 (7.61%) Banking
5 7 (7.61%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.43%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.09%) Automotive
10 1 (1.09%) Local Government
10 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (44.57%) Architect
2 27 (29.35%) Network Architect
3 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (8.70%) Analyst
6 7 (7.61%) Senior
7 6 (6.52%) Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) GCP Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Wintel Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (3.26%) Full Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Lead
10 3 (3.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.17%) Consultant
11 2 (2.17%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.35%) React
2 3 (3.26%) Kafka
2 3 (3.26%) Next.js
2 3 (3.26%) RESTful
3 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.17%) CSS
3 2 (2.17%) HTML
3 2 (2.17%) Node.js
3 2 (2.17%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.09%) .NET
4 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.09%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.09%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.09%) LangChain
4 1 (1.09%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.09%) Spring
4 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.09%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 31 (33.70%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.78%) IoT
3 7 (7.61%) Robotics
4 6 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.43%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (4.35%) PKI
7 3 (3.26%) Clustering
7 3 (3.26%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (2.17%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.09%) Digital Signage
9 1 (1.09%) iSeries
9 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) Windows
2 6 (6.52%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (3.26%) Linux
5 2 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (2.17%) Unix
5 2 (2.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) Business Strategy
2 30 (32.61%) Open Source
3 27 (29.35%) Network Management
3 27 (29.35%) Zero Trust
4 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (15.22%) Agile
6 12 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (13.04%) Computer Science
6 12 (13.04%) DevOps
6 12 (13.04%) Migration
6 12 (13.04%) Roadmaps
7 11 (11.96%) CI/CD
7 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.70%) Data Science
8 8 (8.70%) Use Case
9 7 (7.61%) Machine Learning
9 7 (7.61%) Project Management
9 7 (7.61%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (6.52%) Business Case
10 6 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.22%) Java
2 13 (14.13%) SQL
3 11 (11.96%) Python
4 5 (5.43%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.26%) Bash
5 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.17%) Scala
7 1 (1.09%) C#
7 1 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 37 (40.22%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.78%) DV Cleared
3 16 (17.39%) Degree
4 8 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.17%) MCP
6 2 (2.17%) MCSE
6 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.17%) MOS
7 1 (1.09%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.09%) CCDP
7 1 (1.09%) CCIP
7 1 (1.09%) CCNA
7 1 (1.09%) CCNP
7 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.17%) COBIT
2 2 (2.17%) QA
2 2 (2.17%) SLA
3 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (9.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.52%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.35%) Docker
3 4 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.26%) vSphere
5 2 (2.17%) HDFS
5 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) Grafana
1 5 (5.43%) SCCM
2 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.35%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (3.26%) Terraform
4 2 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (2.17%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.09%) Ansible
5 1 (1.09%) Kibana
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (13.04%) Google
1 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.52%) VMware
3 5 (5.43%) Cisco
3 5 (5.43%) Veritas
4 4 (4.35%) Informatica
4 4 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.26%) SAP
6 2 (2.17%) Brocade
6 2 (2.17%) Citrix
6 2 (2.17%) Dell
6 2 (2.17%) HP
6 2 (2.17%) Huawei
6 2 (2.17%) McAfee
6 2 (2.17%) Meraki
6 2 (2.17%) NetApp
6 2 (2.17%) Sophos
6 2 (2.17%) Symantec
7 1 (1.09%) ADVA
7 1 (1.09%) Splunk