Cloud Computing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 247 376
Rank change year-on-year -26 +129 -55
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 74 235 261
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.94% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 2.37% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 166 183
10th Percentile £398 £400 £400
25th Percentile £460 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £663
90th Percentile £678 £741 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £552
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.36% +10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £20.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% -
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.75 £18.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -14.77% +12.82%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Cloud Computing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Computing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Cloud Computing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (9.46%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Apache
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.35%) JBoss
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.05%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Endur
2 2 (2.70%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 2 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.81%) Azure
2 40 (54.05%) AWS
3 22 (29.73%) GCP
4 11 (14.86%) IaaS
4 11 (14.86%) PaaS
4 11 (14.86%) SaaS
5 9 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.81%) Nutanix
7 7 (9.46%) Rubrik
7 7 (9.46%) Serverless
8 5 (6.76%) Twilio
9 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.70%) Azure App Service
11 2 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.70%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.70%) ChatGPT
11 2 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.22%) Firewall
2 10 (13.51%) DNS
3 8 (10.81%) DHCP
3 8 (10.81%) TCP/IP
4 7 (9.46%) Kerberos
4 7 (9.46%) NAS
4 7 (9.46%) Network Security
4 7 (9.46%) SAN
4 7 (9.46%) VLAN
5 6 (8.11%) VoIP
6 5 (6.76%) CTI
7 4 (5.41%) InfiniBand
8 3 (4.05%) WAN
9 2 (2.70%) LAN
9 2 (2.70%) VPN
10 1 (1.35%) NaaS
10 1 (1.35%) NGFW
10 1 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (1.35%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.76%) Big Data
3 4 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.05%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.70%) MySQL
5 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.70%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.35%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.35%) Flink
6 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
2 9 (12.16%) Git
3 8 (10.81%) JIRA
4 7 (9.46%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.05%) Terragrunt
6 2 (2.70%) GitLab
7 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.35%) JMeter
7 1 (1.35%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.35%) NeoLoad
General
1 24 (32.43%) Finance
2 14 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.86%) Public Sector
4 9 (12.16%) Manufacturing
4 9 (12.16%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.46%) Banking
6 5 (6.76%) Electronics
6 5 (6.76%) Marketing
7 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.05%) Retail
8 1 (1.35%) French Language
8 1 (1.35%) German Language
8 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Architect
2 10 (13.51%) Developer
3 9 (12.16%) Consultant
4 8 (10.81%) Senior
5 7 (9.46%) Analyst
5 7 (9.46%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Network Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Technical Support
7 5 (6.76%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Cloud Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) LDAP
1 7 (9.46%) Middleware
2 5 (6.76%) React
2 5 (6.76%) RESTful
2 5 (6.76%) Web Services
3 3 (4.05%) .NET
3 3 (4.05%) EDI
3 3 (4.05%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.05%) HTML
3 3 (4.05%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.70%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.70%) Hugging Face
4 2 (2.70%) IDoc
4 2 (2.70%) LangChain
4 2 (2.70%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.70%) XML
5 1 (1.35%) Node.js
5 1 (1.35%) REST
5 1 (1.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Clustering
1 7 (9.46%) Replication
2 5 (6.76%) IVR
2 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.05%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.70%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.35%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) IoT
6 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.22%) Linux
2 9 (12.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (10.81%) Windows
3 8 (10.81%) Windows Server
4 7 (9.46%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (9.46%) Solaris
5 1 (1.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.19%) DevOps
2 24 (32.43%) Agile
3 15 (20.27%) Computer Science
4 14 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (14.86%) Microservices
6 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (12.16%) Analytics
7 9 (12.16%) Change Management
7 9 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (12.16%) Data Analysis
7 9 (12.16%) Data Security
7 9 (12.16%) High Availability
7 9 (12.16%) Machine Learning
8 8 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (9.46%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (9.46%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.43%) Python
2 18 (24.32%) SQL
3 17 (22.97%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.16%) Bash
5 7 (9.46%) Java
6 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.41%) C#
9 3 (4.05%) C
10 2 (2.70%) ABAP
11 1 (1.35%) Bicep
11 1 (1.35%) C++
11 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.35%) Perl
11 1 (1.35%) PHP
11 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.35%) R
11 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Degree
2 12 (16.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (12.16%) Azure Certification
4 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.41%) Master's Degree
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.35%) CCDP
9 1 (1.35%) CCIP
9 1 (1.35%) CCNA
9 1 (1.35%) CCNP
9 1 (1.35%) CCSP
9 1 (1.35%) CISSP
9 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) GDPR
2 7 (9.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (6.76%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.70%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.35%) COBIT
5 1 (1.35%) EMIR
5 1 (1.35%) FATCA
5 1 (1.35%) MiFID
5 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 15 (20.27%) Docker
2 10 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) Terraform
2 15 (20.27%) Kubernetes
3 10 (13.51%) Ansible
4 7 (9.46%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (9.46%) Netcool
4 7 (9.46%) Tivoli
4 7 (9.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.70%) Nagios
6 2 (2.70%) Puppet
7 1 (1.35%) Control-M
7 1 (1.35%) Grafana
7 1 (1.35%) Kibana
7 1 (1.35%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.35%) Opsview
7 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (25.68%) Oracle
2 17 (22.97%) Microsoft
3 13 (17.57%) Cisco
4 10 (13.51%) Google
4 10 (13.51%) ServiceNow
4 10 (13.51%) VMware
5 8 (10.81%) IBM
5 8 (10.81%) Splunk
6 7 (9.46%) CyberArk
6 7 (9.46%) Dell
6 7 (9.46%) EMC
6 7 (9.46%) HP
6 7 (9.46%) Isilon
6 7 (9.46%) Qualys
6 7 (9.46%) SAP
6 7 (9.46%) Serena
7 5 (6.76%) Avaya
7 5 (6.76%) Genesys
8 3 (4.05%) Phenom
8 3 (4.05%) Red Hat