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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 330 416
Rank change year-on-year -8 +86 -66
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 255 443 515
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.77% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 2.08% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 321 308
10th Percentile £350 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £495
% change year-on-year +9.09% +11.11% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.63 £19.63
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -14.77% +12.82%
75th Percentile £36.63 £42.38 £41.13
90th Percentile £67.45 £55.28 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.75 £18.75 £21.38
% change year-on-year - -12.28% +9.62%

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 13,934 21,306 33,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.80% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,402 24,532
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 £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.09% +23.10% -

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -14 226 £600 +4.35% 209
London +20 125 £600 +3.90% 95
UK excluding London -1 92 £600 +9.09% 112
Work from Home -23 75 £550 - 143
North of England +43 30 £450 -21.74% 33
South West -7 30 £650 +4.00% 18
North West +24 17 £450 -21.74% 13
South East +9 15 £300 -44.95% 24
Yorkshire +24 10 £450 -37.93% 16
East of England +13 9 £575 -1.29% 6
Wales - 4 £91 - 3
Scotland +25 3 £550 +7.32% 7
North East - 3 - - 4
Midlands +4 1 - - 16
West Midlands +3 1 - - 6

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 9 (3.53%) Apache
2 8 (3.14%) Confluence
3 6 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.18%) CMS
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.78%) JBoss
6 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.53%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.96%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.14%) Endur
2 5 (1.96%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 110 (43.14%) Azure
2 99 (38.82%) AWS
3 59 (23.14%) PaaS
4 57 (22.35%) GCP
4 57 (22.35%) IaaS
5 54 (21.18%) SaaS
6 16 (6.27%) Serverless
7 14 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (4.71%) Nutanix
9 11 (4.31%) Entra ID
9 11 (4.31%) Twilio
10 8 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.14%) GitHub
10 8 (3.14%) Rubrik
11 7 (2.75%) Azure Storage
11 7 (2.75%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.35%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.96%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.69%) WAN
2 38 (14.90%) LAN
3 24 (9.41%) Firewall
4 22 (8.63%) DNS
5 15 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 15 (5.88%) VPN
6 13 (5.10%) SAN
7 12 (4.71%) DHCP
7 12 (4.71%) VoIP
8 11 (4.31%) CTI
8 11 (4.31%) NAS
9 9 (3.53%) Network Security
10 8 (3.14%) Kerberos
10 8 (3.14%) VLAN
11 7 (2.75%) Internet
12 6 (2.35%) InfiniBand
13 5 (1.96%) IPsec
13 5 (1.96%) SSH
13 5 (1.96%) WLAN
14 4 (1.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.10%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.31%) MySQL
2 11 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.92%) Big Data
3 10 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.75%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.35%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.96%) Bigtable
8 5 (1.96%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.57%) Cloud Spanner
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.18%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.78%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 22 (8.63%) Git
2 17 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.31%) JIRA
4 9 (3.53%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.57%) JMeter
7 3 (1.18%) GitLab
7 3 (1.18%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.18%) NeoLoad
7 3 (1.18%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.78%) webpack
9 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.39%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.39%) JUnit
9 1 (0.39%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.39%) Spinnaker
General
1 64 (25.10%) Finance
2 57 (22.35%) Public Sector
3 56 (21.96%) Social Skills
4 35 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.41%) Manufacturing
6 23 (9.02%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.27%) Banking
8 15 (5.88%) Marketing
9 13 (5.10%) Electronics
10 11 (4.31%) Retail
11 9 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.75%) Law
13 5 (1.96%) Mandarin Language
13 5 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.18%) Legal
15 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.78%) French Language
16 2 (0.78%) German Language
Job Titles
1 75 (29.41%) Architect
2 28 (10.98%) Network Architect
3 25 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (8.63%) Senior
5 20 (7.84%) Analyst
6 17 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (5.88%) Developer
8 14 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.49%) Support Engineer
9 13 (5.10%) Consultant
10 11 (4.31%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Lead
12 8 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.14%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.14%) Enterprise Architect
13 7 (2.75%) Software Engineer
14 6 (2.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.27%) Middleware
2 13 (5.10%) React
2 13 (5.10%) RESTful
3 12 (4.71%) LDAP
3 12 (4.71%) Web Services
4 10 (3.92%) HTML
5 8 (3.14%) .NET
6 7 (2.75%) Kafka
6 7 (2.75%) PyTorch
6 7 (2.75%) TensorFlow
7 6 (2.35%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.96%) Hugging Face
8 5 (1.96%) JSON
8 5 (1.96%) LangChain
8 5 (1.96%) Node.js
9 3 (1.18%) CSS
9 3 (1.18%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.18%) IDoc
9 3 (1.18%) Next.js
9 3 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.90%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.31%) Clustering
3 11 (4.31%) IVR
4 10 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.53%) IoT
6 8 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.14%) Replication
7 7 (2.75%) Robotics
8 6 (2.35%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.35%) PKI
9 5 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.96%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.57%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.55%) Windows
2 29 (11.37%) Linux
3 19 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.31%) Unix
5 8 (3.14%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (3.14%) Solaris
6 5 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.18%) CentOS
8 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.78%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.27%) DevOps
2 61 (23.92%) Agile
3 57 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (16.47%) Computer Science
5 40 (15.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 39 (15.29%) Business Strategy
7 37 (14.51%) Open Source
8 33 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (12.55%) CI/CD
10 31 (12.16%) Migration
11 28 (10.98%) Network Management
11 28 (10.98%) Zero Trust
12 27 (10.59%) Machine Learning
13 25 (9.80%) Analytics
13 25 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 22 (8.63%) Roadmaps
16 21 (8.24%) Change Management
16 21 (8.24%) Containerisation
17 19 (7.45%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 54 (21.18%) SQL
2 53 (20.78%) Python
3 33 (12.94%) Java
4 32 (12.55%) PowerShell
5 18 (7.06%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.88%) Bash
6 15 (5.88%) C#
6 15 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.14%) C
7 8 (3.14%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.96%) ABAP
9 4 (1.57%) Go
9 4 (1.57%) Scala
10 3 (1.18%) Bicep
10 3 (1.18%) C++
11 2 (0.78%) Clojure
11 2 (0.78%) Haskell
11 2 (0.78%) Perl
11 2 (0.78%) Rust
11 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.82%) Degree
3 33 (12.94%) DV Cleared
4 30 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (9.02%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 14 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (4.31%) Master's Degree
9 9 (3.53%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.18%) CCIE
11 3 (1.18%) CCNA
11 3 (1.18%) CCNP
12 2 (0.78%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.78%) CISSP
12 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.78%) MCP
12 2 (0.78%) MCSE
12 2 (0.78%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.06%) GDPR
2 10 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.14%) HIPAA
3 8 (3.14%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (3.14%) SOC 2
4 7 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.96%) SLA
7 2 (0.78%) COBIT
7 2 (0.78%) QA
8 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.39%) EMIR
8 1 (0.39%) FATCA
8 1 (0.39%) MiFID
8 1 (0.39%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (9.80%) Active Directory
1 25 (9.80%) Docker
2 22 (8.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.71%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.35%) vSphere
6 4 (1.57%) NFS
7 2 (0.78%) HDFS
7 2 (0.78%) KVM
7 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.39%) Firmware
8 1 (0.39%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 37 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.20%) Terraform
3 17 (6.67%) Ansible
4 8 (3.14%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.14%) Netcool
4 8 (3.14%) Tivoli
4 8 (3.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (2.75%) Grafana
6 5 (1.96%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.96%) SCCM
7 4 (1.57%) Kibana
8 3 (1.18%) Puppet
8 3 (1.18%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.78%) Nagios
9 2 (0.78%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (21.96%) Microsoft
2 35 (13.73%) Google
3 30 (11.76%) Cisco
4 28 (10.98%) Oracle
5 25 (9.80%) VMware
6 21 (8.24%) SAP
7 15 (5.88%) ServiceNow
8 12 (4.71%) Splunk
9 11 (4.31%) Avaya
9 11 (4.31%) Dell
9 11 (4.31%) Genesys
10 10 (3.92%) HP
10 10 (3.92%) IBM
11 8 (3.14%) CyberArk
11 8 (3.14%) EMC
11 8 (3.14%) Isilon
11 8 (3.14%) Qualys
11 8 (3.14%) Serena
12 6 (2.35%) Citrix
12 6 (2.35%) Red Hat