Cloud Computing Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Computing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing 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 101 113 158
Rank change year-on-year +12 +45 +10
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 18 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.03% 0.64% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 1.64% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 17
10th Percentile £513 £219 £429
25th Percentile £563 £286 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% -21.74% +1.77%
75th Percentile £751 £625 £700
90th Percentile £790 £825 £830
Central London median daily rate £660 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +38.95% -20.83% +6.19%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 758 853 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.17% 38.83% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 606 942
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £713
90th Percentile £743 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the City of London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the City of London

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the City of London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the City of London

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) GitHub
5 3 (16.67%) IaaS
5 3 (16.67%) PaaS
5 3 (16.67%) SaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
6 2 (11.11%) Serverless
7 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.56%) Rubrik
7 1 (5.56%) Slack
7 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
2 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Jasmine
3 1 (5.56%) JUnit
3 1 (5.56%) MLflow
3 1 (5.56%) Serena SBM
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Lead
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Business Solution Architect
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Information Risk Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (11.11%) LDAP
1 2 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Batch
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Security
2 1 (5.56%) Swagger
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Clustering
1 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (11.11%) Reinsurance
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Solaris
5 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) High Availability
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Analytics
3 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (16.67%) OWASP
3 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Generative AI
4 2 (11.11%) LLM
4 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) Bicep
4 3 (16.67%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) Perl
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) Clojure
6 1 (5.56%) Elixir
6 1 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) Haskell
6 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.56%) Ruby
6 1 (5.56%) Rust
6 1 (5.56%) Scala
6 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) COBIT
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.56%) Docker
4 1 (5.56%) NFS
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (5.56%) Veritas File System
4 1 (5.56%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Control-M
2 2 (11.11%) QRadar
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
3 1 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (5.56%) Netcool
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) BMC
3 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) Qualys
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) EMC
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) SaltStack
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Serena
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Sybase