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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 113 118
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 3 13 22
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.12% 0.68% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 1.58% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 15
10th Percentile £626 £509 £282
25th Percentile £628 £534 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 £660 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% +32.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £669
90th Percentile £705 £755 £790
London median daily rate £650 £600 £588
% change year-on-year +8.33% +2.13% -2.08%

All Cloud Computing 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 976 823 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.15% 43.32% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 530 689
10th Percentile £350 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.90%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £740
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £28.79 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.70% +27.93% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £96.63 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

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
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 10 June 2026. 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 -22 3 £661 -1.31% 11
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Watson
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Matplotlib
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
1 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Dialogue System
1 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Linear Algebra
1 1 (33.33%) Linear Regression
1 1 (33.33%) LLM
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (33.33%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cognos
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Sage