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 advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 118 106
Rank change year-on-year +3 -12 +27
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 18 54 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 1.40% 2.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 3.90% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 44 70
10th Percentile £515 £516 £493
25th Percentile £558 £550 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £650 £604
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +7.62% +9.82%
75th Percentile £709 £775 £700
90th Percentile £771 £818 £848
London median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +19.05%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 744 1,385 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.81% 36.02% 35.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 951 1,205
10th Percentile £266 £319 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
London median daily rate £580 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 23
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.78 £19.85
25th Percentile £16.73 £25.00 £38.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +137.50%
75th Percentile £26.25 £83.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £29.78 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.74
% change year-on-year -25.71% -19.98% +25.40%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +11 15 £690 +6.15% 3
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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (22.22%) Azure AKS
4 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) GitHub
5 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.56%) Serverless
7 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) LAN
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) 5G
2 1 (5.56%) Broadband
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Couchbase
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
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 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Information Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (5.56%) LDAP
3 1 (5.56%) Middleware
3 1 (5.56%) OpenID
3 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%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) CentOS
4 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps
1 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (16.67%) Agile
2 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 3 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
2 3 (16.67%) Project Management
2 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
3 2 (11.11%) FinOps
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.11%) RBAC
3 2 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Ceph
2 1 (5.56%) NFS
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Terraform
2 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Ansible
4 3 (16.67%) Grafana
4 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (16.67%) Puppet
5 2 (11.11%) Graylog
5 2 (11.11%) Nagios
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
6 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Veracode
3 1 (5.56%) VMware