Public Cloud Contracts in Central London

Public Cloud
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud 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 105 115 116
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 24 18 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.20% 0.74% 1.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.52% 2.40% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 46
10th Percentile £525 £515 £519
25th Percentile £575 £558 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £648 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% -0.38% +5.69%
75th Percentile £688 £709 £775
90th Percentile £781 £771 £816
London median daily rate £650 £585 £650
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.00%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Public 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 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Central London

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Central London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Central London

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in Central London

Public 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 Public Cloud 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 +17 24 £675 -2.17% 6
Public Cloud
London

Public Cloud
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:

Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (4.17%) SAP CO
3 1 (4.17%) SAP FI
3 1 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (4.17%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Amazon S3
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 6 (25.00%) Route 53
4 5 (20.83%) Azure
5 4 (16.67%) PaaS
5 4 (16.67%) Serverless
6 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 2 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DHCP
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (25.00%) DocumentDB
1 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (25.00%) Redis
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) CockroachDB
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Zephyr
3 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 14 (58.33%) Finance
2 11 (45.83%) Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Retail Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Architect
2 6 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Azure Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
7 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Database Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Lead
7 1 (4.17%) SAP Manager
7 1 (4.17%) SAP Test Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) RESTful
2 6 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Derivative
1 6 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) TDD
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) Secure Coding
4 6 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) SOLID
4 6 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Clojure
4 1 (4.17%) Elixir
4 1 (4.17%) Go
4 1 (4.17%) Haskell
4 1 (4.17%) Rust
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) CISM
2 1 (4.17%) CISSP
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) GRC
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
1 2 (8.33%) Lustre
2 1 (4.17%) IAG
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Karpenter
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) Podman
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) SAP
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Concur
3 2 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk