Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Central London

Private Cloud
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 125 139
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +37
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 8 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.40% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 1.09% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £445 £550 £453
25th Percentile £505 £571 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +36.84% -15.56%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £715 £778
London median daily rate £658 £596 £600
% change year-on-year +10.27% -0.63% -7.69%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Private 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 772 731 891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.54% 31.35% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 474 606
10th Percentile £350 £358 £300
25th Percentile £439 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 12
10th Percentile £19.51 £30.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.11 £38.42 £18.45
Median hourly rate £26.81 £55.40 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +130.81% -44.19%
75th Percentile £34.38 £75.92 £30.69
90th Percentile £41.77 £85.87 £45.73
London median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -12.82%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Central London

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in Central London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in Central London

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud within the Central London region over the 6 months to 19 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 -3 8 £653 +0.38% 1
Private Cloud
London

Private Cloud
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 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (12.50%) SAP CO
2 1 (12.50%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Architect
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Service Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) F5
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow