Cloud Computing Contracts

Cloud Computing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 321 422
Rank change year-on-year -7 +101 -63
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 264 446 508
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.78% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 2.12% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 329 306
10th Percentile £350 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile £16.70 - £16.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.25 £19.63
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -17.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £36.63 £42.38 £41.13
90th Percentile £67.45 £55.28 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.75 £18.25 £21.38
% change year-on-year +2.74% -14.62% +1.79%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,861 21,047 33,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.57% 36.74% 38.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,856 15,234 24,645
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 335 407
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.44
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England +16 235 £600 +4.30% 238
London +17 124 £600 +3.00% 121
UK excluding London +3 100 £575 +4.55% 136
Work from Home -19 80 £550 - 148
North of England +49 36 £475 -17.39% 40
South West -16 31 £650 +8.33% 16
North West +19 17 £450 -21.74% 19
Yorkshire +29 16 £507 -30.07% 15
South East +12 16 £250 -54.09% 37
East of England +11 9 £575 -1.29% 3
Wales - 4 £91 - 5
North East - 3 - - 6
Scotland +24 2 £594 +15.85% 9
West Midlands +10 2 £345 -34.29% 8
Midlands +1 2 £345 -31.00% 19

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.41%) Apache
3 6 (2.27%) Confluence
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.52%) CMS
6 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.76%) JBoss
7 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.38%) IIS
8 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.41%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.03%) Endur
2 5 (1.89%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 119 (45.08%) Azure
2 106 (40.15%) AWS
3 65 (24.62%) GCP
4 57 (21.59%) PaaS
5 53 (20.08%) IaaS
6 51 (19.32%) SaaS
7 23 (8.71%) Serverless
8 16 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (4.17%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.17%) Twilio
11 10 (3.79%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.79%) Nutanix
12 9 (3.41%) GitHub
13 7 (2.65%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 7 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (2.65%) Azure Storage
13 7 (2.65%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 38 (14.39%) WAN
2 36 (13.64%) LAN
3 21 (7.95%) Firewall
4 20 (7.58%) DNS
5 15 (5.68%) TCP/IP
5 15 (5.68%) VPN
6 12 (4.55%) VoIP
7 11 (4.17%) CTI
7 11 (4.17%) SAN
8 10 (3.79%) DHCP
9 9 (3.41%) NAS
9 9 (3.41%) Network Security
10 7 (2.65%) Internet
10 7 (2.65%) VLAN
11 6 (2.27%) InfiniBand
11 6 (2.27%) Kerberos
12 5 (1.89%) IPsec
12 5 (1.89%) SSH
13 4 (1.52%) OSPF
13 4 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.44%) Big Data
2 15 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (5.30%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.92%) Data Lake
5 12 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 12 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 11 (4.17%) MySQL
6 11 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.03%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.89%) Bigtable
11 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.52%) Cloud Spanner
13 3 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (11.74%) Git
2 22 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.41%) JIRA
4 8 (3.03%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.89%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.52%) JMeter
7 3 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.14%) GitLab
7 3 (1.14%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.14%) NeoLoad
7 3 (1.14%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.76%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.76%) webpack
9 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.38%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.38%) JUnit
9 1 (0.38%) Spinnaker
General
1 64 (24.24%) Finance
2 58 (21.97%) Public Sector
2 58 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 24 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 17 (6.44%) Banking
6 15 (5.68%) Marketing
7 13 (4.92%) Electronics
8 11 (4.17%) Retail
9 9 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.65%) Law
11 5 (1.89%) Mandarin Language
11 5 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.14%) Legal
13 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Wearables
14 1 (0.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 80 (30.30%) Architect
2 30 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
3 28 (10.61%) Network Architect
4 22 (8.33%) Senior
5 20 (7.58%) Analyst
6 19 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (7.20%) Developer
7 15 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.68%) Support Engineer
8 14 (5.30%) Consultant
8 14 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.17%) Network Engineer
10 10 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.03%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (3.03%) Lead
12 7 (2.65%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.27%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.44%) React
2 16 (6.06%) Middleware
3 14 (5.30%) Kafka
3 14 (5.30%) RESTful
4 12 (4.55%) Web Services
5 11 (4.17%) HTML
6 10 (3.79%) LDAP
7 9 (3.41%) .NET
7 9 (3.41%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.65%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.27%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.89%) CSS
10 5 (1.89%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.89%) JSON
10 5 (1.89%) LangChain
10 5 (1.89%) Node.js
11 3 (1.14%) EDI
11 3 (1.14%) FastAPI
11 3 (1.14%) Spring
11 3 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.02%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.17%) IVR
4 10 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.41%) IoT
6 8 (3.03%) Clustering
6 8 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.65%) Robotics
8 6 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.27%) Replication
8 6 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.89%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.89%) PKI
10 4 (1.52%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.98%) Windows
2 28 (10.61%) Linux
3 15 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.17%) Unix
5 9 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
6 6 (2.27%) Solaris
7 4 (1.52%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.76%) CentOS
8 2 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.76%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (29.55%) DevOps
2 60 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (21.97%) Agile
4 42 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence
4 42 (15.91%) Computer Science
5 39 (14.77%) Business Strategy
6 37 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (14.02%) Open Source
7 36 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 31 (11.74%) Machine Learning
9 30 (11.36%) Analytics
9 30 (11.36%) Migration
10 29 (10.98%) Containerisation
11 28 (10.61%) Network Management
11 28 (10.61%) Zero Trust
12 23 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (8.33%) High Availability
13 22 (8.33%) Roadmaps
14 21 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (7.58%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 63 (23.86%) SQL
2 59 (22.35%) Python
3 40 (15.15%) Java
4 31 (11.74%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.20%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.44%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.68%) C#
8 14 (5.30%) Bash
9 8 (3.03%) C
9 8 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.89%) ABAP
11 4 (1.52%) Bicep
11 4 (1.52%) Go
11 4 (1.52%) Scala
12 3 (1.14%) C++
12 3 (1.14%) Rust
12 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.76%) Clojure
13 2 (0.76%) Haskell
13 2 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 49 (18.56%) Degree
3 33 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 29 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (7.95%) SC Cleared
6 18 (6.82%) Azure Certification
7 14 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (4.55%) Master's Degree
9 11 (4.17%) AWS Certification
10 10 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.14%) CCIE
12 3 (1.14%) CCNA
12 3 (1.14%) CCNP
12 3 (1.14%) CISSP
13 2 (0.76%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.76%) MCP
13 2 (0.76%) MCSE
13 2 (0.76%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.44%) GDPR
2 10 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.41%) HIPAA
3 9 (3.41%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.03%) SOC 2
5 6 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.89%) SLA
7 3 (1.14%) WCAG
8 2 (0.76%) COBIT
8 2 (0.76%) QA
9 1 (0.38%) EMIR
9 1 (0.38%) FATCA
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.38%) MiFID
9 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (9.85%) Docker
2 22 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 21 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.27%) vSphere
7 4 (1.52%) NFS
8 2 (0.76%) HDFS
8 2 (0.76%) KVM
8 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.38%) Firmware
9 1 (0.38%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 38 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.36%) Terraform
3 15 (5.68%) Ansible
4 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.27%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (2.27%) Grafana
5 6 (2.27%) Netcool
5 6 (2.27%) SCCM
5 6 (2.27%) Tivoli
5 6 (2.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (1.52%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.52%) Kibana
7 2 (0.76%) Nagios
7 2 (0.76%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.76%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.38%) Opsview
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 43 (16.29%) Google
3 28 (10.61%) Cisco
4 27 (10.23%) Oracle
5 23 (8.71%) VMware
6 21 (7.95%) SAP
7 13 (4.92%) ServiceNow
8 12 (4.55%) Avaya
9 11 (4.17%) Genesys
10 10 (3.79%) Dell
10 10 (3.79%) Splunk
11 8 (3.03%) IBM
12 7 (2.65%) HP
12 7 (2.65%) Qualys
13 6 (2.27%) CyberArk
13 6 (2.27%) EMC
13 6 (2.27%) Isilon
13 6 (2.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (2.27%) Serena
14 5 (1.89%) OpenLink