Private Cloud Contracts in the City of London

Private Cloud
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 125 156
Rank change year-on-year +17 +31 +19
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 11 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.046% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% 0.15% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 16
10th Percentile £612 - £461
25th Percentile £620 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £531
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.19%
75th Percentile £675 - £611
90th Percentile - - £739
Central London median daily rate £650 - £531
% change year-on-year - - -6.80%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Private Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 611 673 1,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.78% 30.63% 35.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 460 882
10th Percentile £363 £274 £350
25th Percentile £475 £423 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £806 £850 £856
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £16.97
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £31.31
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -46.82% -9.90%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the City of London

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the City of London

Private Cloud
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 3 (27.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) VSAN
2 1 (9.09%) 3G
2 1 (9.09%) 4G
2 1 (9.09%) 5G
2 1 (9.09%) LTE
2 1 (9.09%) VLAN
2 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) CockroachDB
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Designer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Service Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Service Designer
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
1 3 (27.27%) Open Source
1 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
1 3 (27.27%) Service Migration
1 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (18.18%) Database Security
2 2 (18.18%) High Availability
2 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) SDLC
2 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
2 2 (18.18%) TDD
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Product Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
1 3 (27.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Ericsson
2 2 (18.18%) Mavenir
2 2 (18.18%) Nokia
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat