Public Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 96 127
Rank change year-on-year -27 +31 +20
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 7 38 19
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 1.63% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.91% 5.20% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 32 18
10th Percentile £470 £435 £500
25th Percentile £500 £563 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £674
90th Percentile £661 £798 £775
London median daily rate £602 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +0.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 770 731 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.35% 31.27% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 475 597
10th Percentile £350 £363 £300
25th Percentile £436 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £724
90th Percentile £775 £825 £830
London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 12
10th Percentile £19.79 £30.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.47 £38.42 £18.45
Median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -44.19%
75th Percentile £32.75 £75.92 £30.69
90th Percentile £41.75 £85.87 £45.73
London median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -11.30%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Central London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Central London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Central London

Public Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Public Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Public Cloud

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 20 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 -37 7 £600 -2.04% 2
Public Cloud
London

Public 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP CO
1 1 (14.29%) SAP FI
1 1 (14.29%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Architect
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SAP CO Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP FI Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 1 (14.29%) JPA
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Profit Centre Accounting
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Istio
3 1 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) VMware