Private Cloud Contracts in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Private Cloud over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 247 392
Rank change year-on-year -46 +145 -40
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 103 209 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.89% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 2.75% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 168 86
10th Percentile £463 £425 £438
25th Percentile £475 £525 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +17.14% +0.96%
75th Percentile £600 £701 £633
90th Percentile £675 £758 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £610 £563
% change year-on-year -11.84% +8.49% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 5
10th Percentile - - £41.98
25th Percentile - - £42.33
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +47.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £72.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +47.37% -1.55%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Private 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,968 7,613 9,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.45% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 5,131 6,667
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 433 451
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 -25 70 £500 -18.70% 8
South East +18 13 £625 +47.06% 3
Scotland +40 8 £630 +5.00% 1
North of England +3 6 £513 -27.56% 13
North West +2 5 £513 -2.38% 10
Midlands +19 3 £675 +3.85% 8
West Midlands +6 3 £675 +3.85% 7
East of England +2 3 - - 3
North East +2 1 £600 -24.95% 1
Private Cloud
UK

Private Cloud
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 37 (35.92%) Confluence
2 35 (33.98%) SharePoint
2 35 (33.98%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (2.91%) CMS
3 3 (2.91%) Drupal
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.97%) nginx
5 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (51.46%) Azure
2 37 (35.92%) Azure Stack
3 9 (8.74%) AWS
4 6 (5.83%) GCP
5 4 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.91%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (2.91%) Datadog
6 3 (2.91%) IaaS
6 3 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.97%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.97%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.97%) Route 53
8 1 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 59 (57.28%) Firewall
2 35 (33.98%) BGP
3 15 (14.56%) DNS
4 11 (10.68%) DHCP
5 5 (4.85%) VoIP
6 4 (3.88%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.91%) LAN
7 3 (2.91%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.91%) SSL
7 3 (2.91%) VLAN
7 3 (2.91%) WAN
7 3 (2.91%) WLAN
8 2 (1.94%) VPN
8 2 (1.94%) VSAN
9 1 (0.97%) Internet
9 1 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.97%) Skype
9 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (43.69%) JIRA
2 6 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.85%) Git
4 3 (2.91%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.91%) GitLab
4 3 (2.91%) Selenium
4 3 (2.91%) Subversion
5 1 (0.97%) GoCD
5 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.48%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.88%) Finance
5 2 (1.94%) Marketing
6 1 (0.97%) Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Electronics
6 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Legal
6 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.97%) Retail
6 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (20.39%) Analyst
2 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (17.48%) Network Engineer
3 17 (16.50%) Microsoft Engineer
4 13 (12.62%) Architect
5 12 (11.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (10.68%) SOC Analyst
7 9 (8.74%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Service Analyst
10 5 (4.85%) Service Management Analyst
10 5 (4.85%) VoIP Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Voice Engineer
12 3 (2.91%) Developer
12 3 (2.91%) Python Developer
12 3 (2.91%) Senior
13 2 (1.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.97%) Keycloak
1 1 (0.97%) LDAP
1 1 (0.97%) Middleware
1 1 (0.97%) Node.js
1 1 (0.97%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (31.07%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.80%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.91%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (37.86%) Windows
2 3 (2.91%) Linux
3 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) Unix
4 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) ITIL
2 38 (36.89%) Network Management
3 37 (35.92%) Service Management
4 36 (34.95%) Capacity Management
4 36 (34.95%) Security Monitoring
5 28 (27.18%) ITSM
6 26 (25.24%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (24.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (17.48%) Resource Management
10 17 (16.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 15 (14.56%) Penetration Testing
12 14 (13.59%) Knowledge Transfer
13 13 (12.62%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 12 (11.65%) Agile
14 12 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (10.68%) Backlog Management
15 11 (10.68%) DevOps
16 9 (8.74%) Roadmaps
17 8 (7.77%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.80%) Python
2 4 (3.88%) Perl
2 4 (3.88%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.91%) Bash
3 3 (2.91%) C
3 3 (2.91%) C++
3 3 (2.91%) Java
3 3 (2.91%) Ruby
4 2 (1.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (76.70%) Security Cleared
2 54 (52.43%) DV Cleared
3 25 (24.27%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.80%) Degree
5 2 (1.94%) VCAP
5 2 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.97%) CISM
6 1 (0.97%) CISSP
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (33.98%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (5.83%) SLA
3 4 (3.88%) QA
4 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (21.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (15.53%) vSphere
3 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.88%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.91%) Docker
5 2 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.97%) NFS
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (26.21%) SCOM
2 14 (13.59%) vCenter Server
3 10 (9.71%) Ansible
4 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.77%) Terraform
5 5 (4.85%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.88%) Puppet
7 3 (2.91%) Nagios
8 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.97%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (46.60%) Microsoft
2 35 (33.98%) Atlassian
3 28 (27.18%) VMware
4 5 (4.85%) Cisco
5 4 (3.88%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.88%) Splunk
6 3 (2.91%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.91%) New Relic
6 3 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.94%) 3PAR
7 2 (1.94%) Citrix
7 2 (1.94%) Dell
7 2 (1.94%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (1.94%) Google
7 2 (1.94%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (1.94%) SAP
7 2 (1.94%) Veeam
8 1 (0.97%) Ariba