Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Public Cloud
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 83 103
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 6 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.46% 0.73% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 3.11% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 12
10th Percentile £563 - £275
25th Percentile £656 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +94.12% -12.82% -12.52%
75th Percentile £838 £513 £700
90th Percentile - £558 £734
England median daily rate £593 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +5.80% -6.67% -

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 435 354 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.05% 23.38% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 159 330
10th Percentile £195 £200 £180
25th Percentile £376 £294 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £593
90th Percentile £700 £639 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 50 72
10th Percentile £13.92 £29.63 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.43 £46.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -0.41% +51.74%
75th Percentile £72.81 £71.94 £69.06
90th Percentile £84.38 £85.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £30.50 £57.35 £45.11
% change year-on-year -46.82% +27.15% +76.26%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the East of England

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the East of England

Public 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 Public Cloud within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 September 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 -2 4 £500 +17.65%
Hertfordshire +4 2 £825 - 1
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SAP HANA
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Workload Management
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP