Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in Central London

Cloud Computing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 106 123
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +63
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 10 23 28
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.50% 0.95% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 2.41% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 19
10th Percentile £442 £448 £313
25th Percentile £495 £503 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £735 £704
90th Percentile £1,100 £805 £805
London median daily rate £575 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -8.66% +0.72% +5.04%

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 818 955 1,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.17% 39.64% 41.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 628 833
10th Percentile £329 £388 £356
25th Percentile £425 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £675
90th Percentile £744 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £20.85 £31.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £34.44
90th Percentile £62.93 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +21.77%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in Central London

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in Central London

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cloud Computing

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 6 December 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 -8 10 £496 -13.83% 7
Cloud Computing
London

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) IaaS
4 2 (20.00%) IBM Watson
4 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (10.00%) MemSQL
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Managing Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Matplotlib
1 2 (20.00%) NumPy
1 2 (20.00%) Pandas
1 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (20.00%) Seaborn
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) AI
1 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (30.00%) Data Science
1 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (30.00%) Release Management
1 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (20.00%) Deep Learning
2 2 (20.00%) Dialogue System
2 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Linear Algebra
2 2 (20.00%) Linear Regression
2 2 (20.00%) LLM
2 2 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (20.00%) Neural Network
2 2 (20.00%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (20.00%) MCITP
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) SLA
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cognos
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Sage
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks