Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Private Cloud
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 86 110
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 +16
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.21% 0.23% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.85% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £426 - £483
25th Percentile £456 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £720 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.82% +37.14% -10.64%
75th Percentile £569 - £538
90th Percentile £599 - -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -12.00%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 476 354 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.78% 26.56% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 159 344
10th Percentile £192 £238 £197
25th Percentile £363 £325 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £484
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.81% +1.84%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 42 81
10th Percentile £13.15 £26.63 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.34 £36.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% -7.69% +59.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.53 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -44.94% +12.36% +67.92%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the East of England

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the East of England

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 October 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 £513 - 2
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (66.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) GPFS
1 2 (66.67%) Lustre
1 2 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Consul
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Salt
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP