Public Cloud Contracts in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public 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 Public 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 226 223 212
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 +35
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 177 242 385
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 1.03% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.97% 3.18% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 179 265
10th Percentile £446 £413 £363
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £552
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +5.14%
75th Percentile £750 £694 £675
90th Percentile £850 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +11.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £72.75 -
25th Percentile £36.75 £76.13 -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.64% - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £75.50 £53.25
% change year-on-year -49.01% +41.78% -7.39%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public 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 Public 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
North of England -13 58 £800 +33.33% 45
North West +25 48 £850 +41.67% 22
Scotland +54 30 £575 +4.55% 13
South West +2 29 £600 +9.09% 25
South East +11 27 £595 +19.60% 17
Wales +34 19 £513 -7.87% 6
Midlands +21 18 £675 -3.57% 15
West Midlands +6 12 £700 - 11
Yorkshire -19 9 £550 - 15
East Midlands +19 6 £445 -36.43% 4
East of England -7 1 - - 4
North East -9 1 £525 -32.26% 8
Public Cloud
UK

Public 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 14 (7.91%) Confluence
2 5 (2.82%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.13%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 85 (48.02%) Azure
2 82 (46.33%) AWS
3 28 (15.82%) GCP
4 17 (9.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (6.21%) PaaS
6 10 (5.65%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.65%) SaaS
7 9 (5.08%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.95%) GitHub
9 6 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.82%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (2.82%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.82%) IaaS
10 5 (2.82%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.82%) Serverless
11 4 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 52 (29.38%) VPN
2 42 (23.73%) Firewall
3 14 (7.91%) WAN
4 10 (5.65%) LAN
5 9 (5.08%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.82%) BGP
7 4 (2.26%) DNS
7 4 (2.26%) MPLS
7 4 (2.26%) Network Security
7 4 (2.26%) SSL
8 3 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.69%) IOS XR
9 2 (1.13%) DSL
9 2 (1.13%) OSPF
9 2 (1.13%) SAN
9 2 (1.13%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.13%) Wireless
10 1 (0.56%) Internet
10 1 (0.56%) PBX
10 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.47%) Relational Database
3 14 (7.91%) MySQL
4 8 (4.52%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.39%) DB2
6 4 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.69%) Big Data
7 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.13%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.56%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (9.60%) JIRA
2 15 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.08%) GitLab
4 8 (4.52%) Git
5 7 (3.95%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.39%) Burp Suite
6 6 (3.39%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.82%) AppScan
7 5 (2.82%) JMeter
7 5 (2.82%) Selenium
7 5 (2.82%) Spinnaker
8 3 (1.69%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.56%) Maven
9 1 (0.56%) Postman
9 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 48 (27.12%) Finance
2 31 (17.51%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.43%) Banking
4 16 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.52%) Billing
8 6 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.39%) Legal
9 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.69%) Automotive
12 2 (1.13%) Electronics
12 2 (1.13%) Marketing
13 1 (0.56%) Military
13 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (38.98%) Architect
2 43 (24.29%) Technical Architect
3 35 (19.77%) Lead
4 27 (15.25%) Lead Architect
4 27 (15.25%) Technical Leader
5 14 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.34%) Senior
7 10 (5.65%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (5.08%) DBA
9 8 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Azure Architect
9 8 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Commercial Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Contracts Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Full Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Administrator
11 6 (3.39%) Consultant
11 6 (3.39%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.82%) Node.js
2 15 (8.47%) AngularJS
3 14 (7.91%) REST
4 12 (6.78%) .NET
4 12 (6.78%) CSS
4 12 (6.78%) HTML
5 11 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (6.21%) JPA
5 11 (6.21%) Spring
5 11 (6.21%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.52%) Middleware
7 7 (3.95%) RESTful
8 6 (3.39%) Kafka
9 5 (2.82%) OAuth
9 5 (2.82%) React
10 4 (2.26%) JSON
10 4 (2.26%) Keycloak
10 4 (2.26%) ModSecurity
10 4 (2.26%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.21%) NHS
2 11 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.08%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.52%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.95%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.95%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.39%) PKI
7 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.26%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.13%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.56%) BYOD
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (34.46%) Windows
2 38 (21.47%) Linux
2 38 (21.47%) Windows Server
3 37 (20.90%) Android
3 37 (20.90%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.26%) Unix
4 4 (2.26%) zOS
5 3 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.13%) VMS
7 1 (0.56%) AIX
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (55.37%) Agile
2 76 (42.94%) DevOps
3 60 (33.90%) CI/CD
4 39 (22.03%) Microservices
4 39 (22.03%) Security Architecture
5 32 (18.08%) Design Patterns
5 32 (18.08%) Mobile Device Management
5 32 (18.08%) Zero Trust
6 30 (16.95%) Risk Management
7 27 (15.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 27 (15.25%) Threat Intelligence
8 26 (14.69%) Roadmaps
9 21 (11.86%) Technical Leadership
10 20 (11.30%) Change Control
10 20 (11.30%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.30%) Project Management
11 18 (10.17%) Machine Learning
11 18 (10.17%) SDLC
12 17 (9.60%) Decision-Making
13 16 (9.04%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.38%) Java
2 26 (14.69%) Python
3 22 (12.43%) SQL
4 14 (7.91%) PowerShell
5 13 (7.34%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.21%) Bash
7 8 (4.52%) C
7 8 (4.52%) Ruby
8 5 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.26%) C#
9 4 (2.26%) PHP
10 3 (1.69%) C++
10 3 (1.69%) Perl
10 3 (1.69%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) Groovy
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.21%) Degree
4 6 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.26%) CCNP
5 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.26%) HND
5 4 (2.26%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.26%) MCSE
5 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.13%) CCIE
7 2 (1.13%) SANS
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.99%) QA
2 11 (6.21%) NCSC
3 9 (5.08%) NIST
3 9 (5.08%) SLA
4 8 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.26%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.69%) HL7
7 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 27 (15.25%) Docker
2 13 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.65%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.39%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.82%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 34 (19.21%) Kubernetes
2 31 (17.51%) Ansible
3 24 (13.56%) Terraform
4 13 (7.34%) Grafana
4 13 (7.34%) Progress Chef
5 12 (6.78%) Nagios
5 12 (6.78%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.21%) Graylog
6 11 (6.21%) Puppet
7 9 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (3.39%) Istio
9 5 (2.82%) HP Fortify
9 5 (2.82%) Nessus
9 5 (2.82%) WebInspect
10 4 (2.26%) OPNET
10 4 (2.26%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 3 (1.69%) PowerBroker
12 2 (1.13%) CFEngine
12 2 (1.13%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.86%) Splunk
2 21 (11.86%) VMware
3 13 (7.34%) Google
4 9 (5.08%) Cisco
5 8 (4.52%) Oracle
6 7 (3.95%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.95%) SAP
7 6 (3.39%) Checkmarx
7 6 (3.39%) Databricks
7 6 (3.39%) F5
8 5 (2.82%) Apple
8 5 (2.82%) Veracode
9 4 (2.26%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.26%) WSO2
10 3 (1.69%) New Relic
10 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.69%) TOWER Software
10 3 (1.69%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.13%) Qualys