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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 126 111
Rank change year-on-year +7 -15 +27
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 18 51 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.74% 1.39% 1.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 3.92% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 41 63
10th Percentile £434 £475 £495
25th Percentile £517 £538 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £650 £608
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +7.00% +10.45%
75th Percentile £679 £750 £750
90th Percentile £699 £800 £868
London median daily rate £567 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -12.77% +4.00% +13.64%

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 744 1,302 1,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.76% 35.49% 35.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 884 1,144
10th Percentile £300 £313 £400
25th Percentile £440 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +8.70% -2.54%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £838 £850 £813
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 30
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.14 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 £35.00 £30.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.42 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.53% -22.05% +140.00%
75th Percentile £25.50 £80.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £36.30 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
% change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%

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 17 June 2024.

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 17 June 2024. 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 +6 17 £565 -13.08% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) GCP
2 6 (33.33%) GitHub
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (22.22%) Azure AKS
4 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) IaaS
6 2 (11.11%) PaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.56%) SaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Serverless
7 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) 5G
1 1 (5.56%) Broadband
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
1 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Subversion
4 1 (5.56%) AppScan
4 1 (5.56%) Burp Suite
4 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.56%) GoCD
4 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Information Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Product Owner
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 2 (11.11%) Change Control
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) FinOps
5 2 (11.11%) Microservices
5 2 (11.11%) RBAC
5 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Ceph
3 1 (5.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Terraform
2 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Grafana
3 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 3 (16.67%) Puppet
5 2 (11.11%) Graylog
5 2 (11.11%) Nagios
6 1 (5.56%) CASB
6 1 (5.56%) Consul
6 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (5.56%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (5.56%) HP Fortify
6 1 (5.56%) Mesos
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (5.56%) Nessus
6 1 (5.56%) PingFederate
6 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (5.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
3 1 (5.56%) Veracode