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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 104 111
Rank change year-on-year -24 +7 +45
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 4 17 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.98% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 2.25% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 9
10th Percentile £626 £513 £219
25th Percentile £628 £563 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 £670 £325
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% +106.15% -45.83%
75th Percentile £700 £751 £588
90th Percentile £705 £790 £828
Central London median daily rate £661 £660 £450
% change year-on-year +0.19% +46.67% -25.00%

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 894 754 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.04% 43.38% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 478 598
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £457 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year - +1.62% -8.65%
75th Percentile £647 £663 £669
90th Percentile £749 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +71.44% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.99%

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
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) IBM Watson
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Matplotlib
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Dialogue System
1 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (50.00%) Linear Algebra
1 2 (50.00%) Linear Regression
1 2 (50.00%) LLM
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (50.00%) Neural Network
1 2 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Statistics
1 2 (50.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cognos
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Sage