Cloud Computing Contracts in the East of England

Cloud Computing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 106 114
Rank change year-on-year +30 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 6 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.63% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 3.16% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £300 £511 £465
25th Percentile £375 £519 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -2.54% +12.38%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £763
90th Percentile £701 - £800
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £18.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +1.35% -28.85%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 272 285 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.51% 14.97% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 165 333
10th Percentile £200 £202 £191
25th Percentile £353 £300 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £666 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 65 51
10th Percentile - £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £16.30 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -16.41% +25.81%
75th Percentile £21.84 £21.37 £49.38
90th Percentile £31.64 £53.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.99 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.52% -35.03% +53.44%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the East of England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the East of England

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the East of England

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 3 £250 - 24
Suffolk - 2 £751 - 6
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 9
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Data Science
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Product Management
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) VMware