Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Public Cloud
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.49% - 1.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.56% - 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.81%
75th Percentile - - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
South London median daily rate £500 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -14.81%

All Generic Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36 26 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 26.87% 24.07% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 17 18
10th Percentile £158 £233 £137
25th Percentile £188 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £543 £675 £584
90th Percentile £639 £693 £634
South London median daily rate £506 £625 £425
% change year-on-year -19.00% +47.06% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £15.43
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £64.75 £73.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +213.19% +4.44%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Croydon

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Presales
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow