cloud-init Contracts

cloud-init
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud-init skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited cloud-init over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 675 813
Rank change year-on-year +86 +138 -
Contract jobs citing cloud-init 2 43 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.073% 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.023% 0.31% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 38 34
10th Percentile - £613 £586
25th Percentile - £625 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £628
Median % change year-on-year - +3.59% -
75th Percentile - £688 £675
90th Percentile - £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

cloud-init is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing cloud-init as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for cloud-init in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing cloud-init.

Daily rate trend for cloud-init in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing cloud-init within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +70 2 - -
UK excluding London +52 2 - -
North of England +12 2 - -
North West +5 2 - -

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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 2 (100.00%) nginx
1 2 (100.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Consul
1 2 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (100.00%) Graphite
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) linkerd
1 2 (100.00%) Packer
1 2 (100.00%) Podman
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) VMware