Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Public Cloud
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 35 59
Rank change year-on-year -11 +24 +38
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 1 20 2
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.26% 5.01% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 14.93% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 2
10th Percentile - £490 -
25th Percentile £513 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £743
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -30.01% +48.60%
75th Percentile £538 £560 -
90th Percentile - £719 -
South East median daily rate £600 £575 £642
% change year-on-year +4.35% -10.37% +6.92%

All Generic Skills
Buckinghamshire

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 106 134 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 27.89% 33.58% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 94 127
10th Percentile £173 £309 £263
25th Percentile £314 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +2.37% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £653 £675 £846
South East median daily rate £488 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -2.99% +0.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 8
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.82 £20.70
25th Percentile £15.13 £24.23 £21.19
Median hourly rate £15.25 £34.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +43.10% +41.18%
75th Percentile £15.38 £44.60 £25.50
90th Percentile £18.46 £50.09 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £22.75 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -56.67% - +40.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. 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
Milton Keynes -10 1 £525 - 2
Public Cloud
South East

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Isilon
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware