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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 111 147
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 +22
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 11 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 0.78% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.93% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 15
10th Percentile £461 £310 £428
25th Percentile £513 £356 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +5.73%
75th Percentile £700 £719 £672
90th Percentile £751 £825 £795
Central London median daily rate £625 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% +9.09%

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 741 881 1,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.88% 40.34% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 617 886
10th Percentile £365 £363 £305
25th Percentile £456 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £671 £650 £700
90th Percentile £752 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £583
% change year-on-year +2.33% -7.73% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 9
10th Percentile £23.84 £12.75 £30.45
25th Percentile £24.66 £17.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £38.58 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.44% -72.73% +115.69%
75th Percentile £71.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £98.88 £36.30 -
Central London median hourly rate £31.86 £22.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +41.60% -66.67% +62.65%

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 18 June 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) IaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) MemSQL
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Subversion
2 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Solution Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (18.18%) Reinsurance
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Solaris
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
4 3 (27.27%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) Cost Management
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bicep
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) NFS
2 1 (9.09%) Veritas File System
2 1 (9.09%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Control-M
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Netcool
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Puppet
2 1 (9.09%) QRadar
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (9.09%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) BMC
3 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) SaltStack
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) VMware