Public Cloud Contracts in the City of London

Public Cloud
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 110 120
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 23 15 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.31% 0.69% 1.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.77% 2.22% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 44
10th Percentile £525 £558 £516
25th Percentile £572 £625 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £690 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +6.15% +7.00%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £775
90th Percentile £737 £775 £818
Central London median daily rate £675 £648 £650
% change year-on-year +4.25% -0.38% +7.00%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Public 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 610 675 1,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.74% 30.93% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 463 878
10th Percentile £365 £275 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £848 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £611
% change year-on-year - -5.93% +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.33
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 -
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -26.32%
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% -26.32%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the City of London

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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:

Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (4.35%) SAP CO
3 1 (4.35%) SAP FI
3 1 (4.35%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (26.09%) CloudFront
3 6 (26.09%) Route 53
4 5 (21.74%) Azure
5 4 (17.39%) PaaS
5 4 (17.39%) Serverless
6 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 2 (8.70%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) IaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DHCP
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (26.09%) DocumentDB
1 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
1 6 (26.09%) Redis
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) CockroachDB
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Zephyr
3 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) MLflow
General
1 14 (60.87%) Finance
2 11 (47.83%) Banking
3 6 (26.09%) Retail Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
1 6 (26.09%) C# Developer
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Azure Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (4.35%) ERP Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) RESTful
2 6 (26.09%) GraphQL
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Derivative
1 6 (26.09%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Replication
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) TDD
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Secure Coding
4 6 (26.09%) Asset Management
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) SOLID
4 6 (26.09%) Unit Testing
5 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
5 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (17.39%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Migration
7 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Clojure
4 1 (4.35%) Elixir
4 1 (4.35%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) Haskell
4 1 (4.35%) Rust
4 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Ansible
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Karpenter
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) Podman
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Concur
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk