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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 116 149
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 +25
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 19 17 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.95% 0.70% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 1.78% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 19
10th Percentile £513 £232 £430
25th Percentile £572 £311 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +38.95% -20.83% +6.19%
75th Percentile £751 £616 £672
90th Percentile £788 £765 £815
London median daily rate £625 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -

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 859 955 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.01% 39.04% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 689 1,022
10th Percentile £370 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +12 18 £670 +48.89% 9
City of Westminster 0 1 £650 +30.00% 2
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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.26%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) IaaS
5 3 (15.79%) PaaS
5 3 (15.79%) SaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.26%) Rubrik
7 1 (5.26%) Slack
7 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Subversion
2 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Jasmine
3 1 (5.26%) JUnit
3 1 (5.26%) MLflow
3 1 (5.26%) Serena SBM
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Back Office
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Security Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Business Solution Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (10.53%) LDAP
1 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Batch
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Security
2 1 (5.26%) Swagger
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
1 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (10.53%) Reinsurance
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.53%) Solaris
5 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) High Availability
2 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
4 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
4 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
4 3 (15.79%) OWASP
4 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.79%) Security Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Generative AI
5 2 (10.53%) LLM
5 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) Bicep
3 3 (15.79%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Clojure
5 1 (5.26%) Elixir
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) Haskell
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby
5 1 (5.26%) Rust
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) COBIT
3 1 (5.26%) NIST
3 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.26%) Docker
4 1 (5.26%) NFS
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (5.26%) Veritas File System
4 1 (5.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Control-M
3 2 (10.53%) QRadar
3 2 (10.53%) Tivoli
4 1 (5.26%) Data Guard
4 1 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (5.26%) Netcool
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (5.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) BMC
3 2 (10.53%) CyberArk
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) Qualys
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) EMC
4 1 (5.26%) SaltStack
4 1 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Serena
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Sybase