Public Cloud Contracts with Work from Home Options

Public Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public 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 Public Cloud over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 231 181
Rank change year-on-year -6 -50 +47
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 110 261 679
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 1.04% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.54% 3.30% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 192 512
10th Percentile £500 £451 £417
25th Percentile £558 £523 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +10.85%
75th Percentile £734 £700 £675
90th Percentile £831 £807 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £64.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +61.25% -26.27%
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £75.50 £53.25
% change year-on-year -49.01% +41.78% -7.39%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Public 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 4,324 7,910 13,903
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.64% 31.48% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 5,561 9,934
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £454 £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 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 154 221
10th Percentile £15.50 £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 £66.38 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

Public Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Public Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public 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 Public Cloud.

Public Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Public Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public 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 Public Cloud.

Public Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public 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 12 (10.91%) Confluence
2 3 (2.73%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.82%) Apache
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.82%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.82%) nginx
4 1 (0.91%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.82%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.91%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.91%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.91%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 62 (56.36%) Azure
2 55 (50.00%) AWS
3 19 (17.27%) GCP
4 12 (10.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (8.18%) SaaS
6 8 (7.27%) AWS CloudTrail
6 8 (7.27%) Serverless
7 6 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.45%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.45%) PaaS
8 5 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.64%) Datadog
9 4 (3.64%) IaaS
10 3 (2.73%) Apigee
10 3 (2.73%) Route 53
10 3 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.36%) Firewall
2 15 (13.64%) VPN
3 8 (7.27%) LAN
3 8 (7.27%) WAN
4 4 (3.64%) BGP
5 3 (2.73%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.73%) Internet
5 3 (2.73%) IOS XR
5 3 (2.73%) MPLS
5 3 (2.73%) Network Security
5 3 (2.73%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.82%) DSL
6 2 (1.82%) HTTP
6 2 (1.82%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.82%) Wireless
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.91%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.91%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.18%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.55%) MySQL
4 5 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.73%) DB2
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.82%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.82%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.82%) Redis
7 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.91%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (10.91%) JIRA
2 10 (9.09%) GitLab
3 9 (8.18%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.27%) Git
5 3 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.82%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.82%) JMeter
6 2 (1.82%) Selenium
7 1 (0.91%) AppScan
7 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.91%) Hudson
7 1 (0.91%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.91%) Maven
7 1 (0.91%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.91%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.91%) VisualWorks
General
1 41 (37.27%) Finance
2 24 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.18%) Banking
4 12 (10.91%) Billing
5 10 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.82%) Electronics
10 2 (1.82%) Marketing
11 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.91%) Police
11 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (32.73%) Architect
2 19 (17.27%) Technical Architect
3 15 (13.64%) Senior
4 12 (10.91%) Commercial Manager
4 12 (10.91%) Contracts Manager
5 11 (10.00%) Lead
6 9 (8.18%) Consultant
6 9 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.18%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (7.27%) Azure Architect
7 8 (7.27%) Cloud Architect
8 7 (6.36%) Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Technical Leader
9 5 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Lead Architect
9 5 (4.55%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.64%) Node.js
2 6 (5.45%) .NET
2 6 (5.45%) JSON
2 6 (5.45%) REST
3 5 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.55%) Middleware
4 4 (3.64%) OAuth
5 3 (2.73%) Django
5 3 (2.73%) Kafka
5 3 (2.73%) LDAP
5 3 (2.73%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.73%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.73%) React
5 3 (2.73%) RESTful
5 3 (2.73%) SOAP
5 3 (2.73%) Swagger
5 3 (2.73%) YAML
5 3 (2.73%) YANG
6 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.82%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.36%) Private Cloud
4 6 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.55%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.73%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.91%) BYOD
9 1 (0.91%) Clustering
9 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.91%) IoT
9 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.91%) Replication
9 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.64%) Linux
2 22 (20.00%) Windows
3 12 (10.91%) Android
3 12 (10.91%) Apple iOS
4 10 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.55%) Unix
6 2 (1.82%) CentOS
6 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.82%) VMS
7 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (53.64%) Agile
2 38 (34.55%) DevOps
3 29 (26.36%) CI/CD
4 16 (14.55%) Change Control
5 15 (13.64%) Security Architecture
6 14 (12.73%) Decision-Making
7 13 (11.82%) Analytics
7 13 (11.82%) Microservices
8 12 (10.91%) Contract Management
8 12 (10.91%) Design Patterns
9 11 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 11 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 10 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 10 (9.09%) Project Management
10 10 (9.09%) Risk Management
10 10 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 10 (9.09%) Zero Trust
11 9 (8.18%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.18%) Python
2 17 (15.45%) Java
3 13 (11.82%) SQL
4 10 (9.09%) Bash
5 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.45%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.55%) C
7 5 (4.55%) Ruby
8 3 (2.73%) C#
8 3 (2.73%) Go
8 3 (2.73%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.82%) C++
9 2 (1.82%) Groovy
9 2 (1.82%) Perl
9 2 (1.82%) PHP
9 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.91%) Scala
10 1 (0.91%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.91%) CCIE
4 1 (0.91%) CCNP
4 1 (0.91%) Degree
4 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.91%) MCSE
4 1 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) QA
1 12 (10.91%) SLA
2 9 (8.18%) NCSC
3 5 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.55%) NIST
4 4 (3.64%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.91%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (12.73%) Docker
2 7 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.55%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (19.09%) Terraform
2 19 (17.27%) Ansible
2 19 (17.27%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.27%) Grafana
4 7 (6.36%) Progress Chef
4 7 (6.36%) Puppet
5 6 (5.45%) Nagios
5 6 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.64%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (2.73%) Graylog
8 2 (1.82%) CFEngine
8 2 (1.82%) PowerBroker
8 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.82%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.91%) Argo
9 1 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.91%) Nessus
9 1 (0.91%) Salt
9 1 (0.91%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) VMware
3 9 (8.18%) SAP
3 9 (8.18%) Splunk
4 7 (6.36%) Google
5 6 (5.45%) Cisco
6 5 (4.55%) Databricks
6 5 (4.55%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.73%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.73%) Checkmarx
7 3 (2.73%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.82%) Confluent
8 2 (1.82%) F5
8 2 (1.82%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.82%) IBM
8 2 (1.82%) Informatica
8 2 (1.82%) Oracle
8 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.82%) StreamSets
8 2 (1.82%) Zscaler