Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cloud Computing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 116 106
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 +33
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 5 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.54% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 1.29% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 11
10th Percentile £444 £454 £313
25th Percentile £472 £503 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £683 £713 £719
90th Percentile £699 £751 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -16.67%

All Cloud Computing 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 946 777 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.37% 41.62% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 504 600
10th Percentile £352 £363 £374
25th Percentile £463 £456 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £753
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 4
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 £17.03
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 £23.44
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £43.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £72.85
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -48.57%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cloud Computing

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 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the City of London

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Looker
1 1 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Release Train
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) LookML
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google