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 1 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 119 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 8 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.32% 0.52% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 1.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £475 £608 -
25th Percentile £500 £611 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £631 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% - -
75th Percentile £644 £661 -
90th Percentile £651 £669 -
London median daily rate £642 £600 £638
% change year-on-year +7.04% -5.88% -8.93%

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 806 635 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.28% 33.21% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 412 511
10th Percentile £350 £351 £265
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £809 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 7
10th Percentile £19.27 £19.80 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.52 £14.38
Median hourly rate £26.11 £26.45 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +15.00% -34.29%
75th Percentile £58.92 £30.04 £25.50
90th Percentile £63.94 £58.60 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +21.30% -22.44%

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 1 June 2026.

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 1 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 -13 6 £525 -16.83% 1
West End of London - 2 £625 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) AIX
1 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) FinOps
4 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow