Cloud Computing Contracts in Central London

Cloud Computing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 115 150
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 +27
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 12 19 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.62% 0.81% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.96% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 17
10th Percentile £468 £311 £429
25th Percentile £513 £400 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £638
90th Percentile £751 £808 £733
London median daily rate £585 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.54% +0.04% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 824 970 1,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.30% 41.31% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 687 994
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% -
75th Percentile £668 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £24.30 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.45 £14.88 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.25 £38.63 -
London median hourly rate £32.25 £26.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +24.04% -53.78% +32.35%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in Central London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in Central London

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in Central London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in Central London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in Central London

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
City of London -2 11 £600 -4.00% 53
City of Westminster 0 1 £650 +30.00%
Cloud Computing
London

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (8.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 6 (50.00%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) IaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) MemSQL
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Business Solution Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (16.67%) Reinsurance
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Solaris
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 2 (16.67%) Cost Management
6 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Time Management
6 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bicep
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (8.33%) PMP
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) NFS
2 1 (8.33%) Veritas File System
2 1 (8.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Control-M
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Netcool
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) QRadar
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (8.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) BMC
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Qualys
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) SaltStack
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) VMware