Cloud Consultant Contracts

Cloud Consultant
UK

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in the UK is £543 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 571 608
Rank change year-on-year +65 +37 -192
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 94 145 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.26% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 70 139
10th Percentile £272 £475 £500
25th Percentile £450 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £630
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £585 £694 £676
90th Percentile £690 £750 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -26.04% -7.69% +23.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Cloud Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Consultant over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +90 78 £546 -8.96% 32
London +112 57 £550 -8.33% 12
Work from Home +87 38 £538 -0.46% 21
UK excluding London +37 21 £444 -26.04% 20
South East +21 7 £294 -48.83% 3
North of England +24 4 £550 +10.00% 5
South West +23 4 £263 -62.50% 5
North West +22 3 £550 +4.76% 4
Scotland - 3 - - 2
East of England - 2 £538 - 2
Yorkshire +17 1 - -
Midlands +12 1 £550 -20.00% 4
West Midlands +9 1 £550 -20.00% 4

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Cloud Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cloud Consultant in the job title.

1 54 (57.45%) Oracle
2 48 (51.06%) OCI
3 25 (26.60%) Finance
4 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
5 21 (22.34%) Azure
6 18 (19.15%) Migration
7 16 (17.02%) Data Migration
7 16 (17.02%) Cloud Security
8 15 (15.96%) Degree
8 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
9 12 (12.77%) ERP
9 12 (12.77%) Oracle Fusion
10 10 (10.64%) AWS
10 10 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (10.64%) GCP
10 10 (10.64%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (10.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (9.57%) Risk Management
12 8 (8.51%) Oracle EBS
12 8 (8.51%) PLM
12 8 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
13 7 (7.45%) WAN
14 6 (6.38%) Firewall
14 6 (6.38%) Project Management
14 6 (6.38%) Penetration Testing
14 6 (6.38%) Agile
14 6 (6.38%) Banking
14 6 (6.38%) DevOps
14 6 (6.38%) Microsoft 365

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
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 1 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (5.32%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle Payroll
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (2.13%) SAP SD
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (1.06%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (1.06%) SAP CX
6 1 (1.06%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 48 (51.06%) OCI
2 21 (22.34%) Azure
3 10 (10.64%) AWS
3 10 (10.64%) GCP
4 6 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (5.32%) SaaS
6 4 (4.26%) IaaS
6 4 (4.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 3 (3.19%) Oracle CX
7 3 (3.19%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.13%) Taleo
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.06%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.06%) PaaS
9 1 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) WAN
2 6 (6.38%) Firewall
2 6 (6.38%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.13%) Broadband
3 2 (2.13%) Internet
3 2 (2.13%) VSAN
4 1 (1.06%) DNS
4 1 (1.06%) LAN
4 1 (1.06%) MPLS
4 1 (1.06%) NAS
4 1 (1.06%) PBX
4 1 (1.06%) SAN
4 1 (1.06%) VPLS
4 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.06%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
General
1 25 (26.60%) Finance
2 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Banking
5 5 (5.32%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.26%) Law
6 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.13%) French Language
8 2 (2.13%) German Language
9 1 (1.06%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Legal
9 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.26%) Web Services
3 2 (2.13%) RESTful
4 1 (1.06%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.06%) Middleware
4 1 (1.06%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.32%) PKI
1 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.19%) IVR
3 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.13%) IoT
4 2 (2.13%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 1 (1.06%) Clustering
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.06%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.26%) Windows
2 2 (2.13%) Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (19.15%) Migration
2 16 (17.02%) Cloud Security
2 16 (17.02%) Data Migration
3 12 (12.77%) ERP
4 10 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (9.57%) Risk Management
6 8 (8.51%) PLM
6 8 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (6.38%) Agile
7 6 (6.38%) DevOps
7 6 (6.38%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (6.38%) Penetration Testing
7 6 (6.38%) Project Management
7 6 (6.38%) SDLC
8 5 (5.32%) Business Continuity
8 5 (5.32%) DevSecOps
8 5 (5.32%) Ethical Hacking
8 5 (5.32%) Key Management
8 5 (5.32%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (5.32%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.32%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (4.26%) Java
3 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.13%) SQL
4 1 (1.06%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.06%) Go
4 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.06%) Python
4 1 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Degree
2 5 (5.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (5.32%) CISA
2 5 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (5.32%) CISM
2 5 (5.32%) CISMP
2 5 (5.32%) CISSP
2 5 (5.32%) CRISC
3 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.13%) CCSP
5 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.32%) COBIT
2 5 (5.32%) GRC
2 5 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 5 (5.32%) NIST
3 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.13%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.13%) VxRail
3 1 (1.06%) Proxmox
3 1 (1.06%) QRadar
3 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (57.45%) Oracle
2 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.26%) Google
3 4 (4.26%) VMware
4 3 (3.19%) Genesys
4 3 (3.19%) SAP
5 2 (2.13%) Avaya
5 2 (2.13%) Cisco
5 2 (2.13%) Dell
5 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) ESET
6 1 (1.06%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.06%) IBM
6 1 (1.06%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.06%) Supermicro