Private Cloud Contracts with Work from Home Options

Private Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Private Cloud over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 302 400
Rank change year-on-year -3 +98 +1
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 36 169 227
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.67% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 2.14% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 117 170
10th Percentile £460 £440 £425
25th Percentile £475 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +7.21%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £638
90th Percentile £656 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £610 £563
% change year-on-year -11.84% +8.49% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -17.65% +76.17%
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +47.37% -1.55%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Private Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,326 7,897 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.70% 31.48% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 5,553 9,859
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 154 221
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Private Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Private Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud.

Private Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Private Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud.

Private Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
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 21 (58.33%) Confluence
2 17 (47.22%) SharePoint
2 17 (47.22%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (75.00%) Azure
2 18 (50.00%) Azure Stack
3 12 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) IaaS
4 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub
5 3 (8.33%) Route 53
5 3 (8.33%) Serverless
6 2 (5.56%) Apigee
6 2 (5.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (55.56%) Firewall
2 18 (50.00%) BGP
3 3 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.78%) DHCP
5 1 (2.78%) DNS
5 1 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.78%) IPv6
5 1 (2.78%) MPLS
5 1 (2.78%) SAN
5 1 (2.78%) VLAN
5 1 (2.78%) VPN
5 1 (2.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (58.33%) JIRA
2 6 (16.67%) Git
2 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) GitLab
4 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.56%) Maven
4 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) IT Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Network Migration Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Node.js
2 3 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Data Centre
2 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 17 (47.22%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) ITIL
2 17 (47.22%) Capacity Management
2 17 (47.22%) ITSM
2 17 (47.22%) Network Management
2 17 (47.22%) Security Monitoring
2 17 (47.22%) Service Management
3 10 (27.78%) DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) High Availability
5 6 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 6 (16.67%) Open Source
6 5 (13.89%) Agile
6 5 (13.89%) Coaching
6 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
6 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.11%) Kanban
8 3 (8.33%) BDD
8 3 (8.33%) Migration
9 2 (5.56%) Security Architecture
9 2 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) Bash
3 3 (8.33%) Java
3 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.56%) C
4 2 (5.56%) C++
4 2 (5.56%) Perl
4 2 (5.56%) Ruby
5 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (69.44%) Security Cleared
2 18 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) CISM
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (47.22%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
1 3 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (47.22%) SCOM
2 11 (30.56%) Terraform
3 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 6 (16.67%) Ansible
5 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
5 3 (8.33%) Puppet
6 2 (5.56%) Nagios
7 1 (2.78%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 17 (47.22%) Atlassian
3 5 (13.89%) VMware
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.56%) Mercator
5 2 (5.56%) New Relic
5 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) SAP