Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 271 336
Rank change year-on-year -194 +65 0
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 120 215 228
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.88% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 2.32% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 130 154
10th Percentile £378 £381 £277
25th Percentile £418 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £675
90th Percentile £680 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £40.88 £19.85 £16.55
25th Percentile £45.59 £21.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.27% +37.84% -55.69%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.13 £53.63
90th Percentile - £26.35 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £25.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +86.27% +37.84% -63.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,879 9,267 12,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.59% 37.90% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,549 6,534 8,719
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 187 328
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.06 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.39% +29.17% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67.19 £43.19 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.25 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -21.47%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. 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
London -126 51 £610 -2.40% 47
Midlands -53 25 £550 +49.86% 28
East Midlands -24 20 £550 +52.14% 14
South East -46 18 £500 +11.11% 36
North of England -89 12 £450 -3.43% 36
North West -50 8 £363 -21.92% 21
East of England -25 7 £413 -45.07% 7
West Midlands -53 5 £429 +14.40% 14
South West -36 4 £419 -42.24% 15
North East -11 3 £450 +25.70% 7
Yorkshire -73 1 £525 -19.23% 9
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (3.33%) Apache
1 4 (3.33%) JBoss
1 4 (3.33%) Jupyter
1 4 (3.33%) OpenStack
1 4 (3.33%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (3.33%) MS Visio
1 4 (3.33%) Weka
2 1 (0.83%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.83%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.50%) Fidessa
1 3 (2.50%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (40.83%) AWS
2 44 (36.67%) Azure
3 20 (16.67%) GitHub
4 19 (15.83%) Google Workspace
5 18 (15.00%) Google Sheets
6 13 (10.83%) GCP
7 11 (9.17%) Power Platform
8 10 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.83%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (5.00%) Serverless
12 5 (4.17%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (3.33%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.33%) PaaS
14 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.67%) Firewall
2 9 (7.50%) Network Security
3 6 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.67%) BGP
5 2 (1.67%) NGFW
5 2 (1.67%) OSPF
5 2 (1.67%) Wireless
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.83%) DMZ
6 1 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.83%) LAN
6 1 (0.83%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.83%) VLAN
6 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.33%) Power BI
2 9 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.00%) Tableau
4 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.50%) Big Data
5 3 (2.50%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.67%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.67%) Metadata
6 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.67%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (10.83%) Git
2 11 (9.17%) GitLab
3 10 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.67%) JIRA
5 7 (5.83%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.33%) Eclipse
6 4 (3.33%) IntelliJ
6 4 (3.33%) JUnit
6 4 (3.33%) Selenium
7 3 (2.50%) Toad
8 1 (0.83%) AdminStudio
8 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.83%) Gatling
8 1 (0.83%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.83%) Gradle
8 1 (0.83%) InstallShield
8 1 (0.83%) Postman
8 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 36 (30.00%) Finance
3 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Banking
7 3 (2.50%) Retail
8 2 (1.67%) Back Office
8 2 (1.67%) Legal
8 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Electronics
9 1 (0.83%) Front Office
9 1 (0.83%) German Language
9 1 (0.83%) Marketing
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (10.83%) Programme Manager
2 12 (10.00%) Senior
3 11 (9.17%) Lead
4 10 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (7.50%) Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Analyst
7 7 (5.83%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (5.83%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Consultant
10 4 (3.33%) Gen AI Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Python Developer
11 3 (2.50%) Senior Python Developer
11 3 (2.50%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.17%) REST
2 10 (8.33%) JSON
2 10 (8.33%) XML
2 10 (8.33%) YAML
3 7 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.83%) NumPy
3 7 (5.83%) Pandas
4 6 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 6 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 6 (5.00%) Web Services
5 5 (4.17%) Spring
6 4 (3.33%) EJB
6 4 (3.33%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.33%) HTML
6 4 (3.33%) HTML5
6 4 (3.33%) J2EE
6 4 (3.33%) J2SE
6 4 (3.33%) Play Framework
6 4 (3.33%) PySpark
6 4 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 10 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 8 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.17%) Grid Computing
4 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.83%) FMCG
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) PMI
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.00%) Linux
2 8 (6.67%) Windows
3 4 (3.33%) Unix
3 4 (3.33%) VMS
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.00%) DevOps
2 35 (29.17%) Migration
3 31 (25.83%) Agile
4 30 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 29 (24.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (22.50%) Data Analysis
7 25 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.33%) Risk Management
8 22 (18.33%) User Experience
9 21 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (16.67%) Change Management
10 20 (16.67%) Data Transformation
10 20 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
11 19 (15.83%) AI
12 18 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
12 18 (15.00%) Programme Management
12 18 (15.00%) Quantitative Analysis
12 18 (15.00%) Technology Transformation
13 16 (13.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 44 (36.67%) SQL
2 39 (32.50%) Python
3 13 (10.83%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.17%) Java
5 10 (8.33%) Bash
6 7 (5.83%) Scala
7 6 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.50%) C#
10 2 (1.67%) Bicep
10 2 (1.67%) R
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (24.17%) Degree
4 6 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.33%) PhD
7 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CISM
8 1 (0.83%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) OCP
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.33%) GDPR
2 7 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.33%) NCSC
4 3 (2.50%) NIST
5 2 (1.67%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
6 1 (0.83%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.83%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 15 (12.50%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.33%) GPFS
3 4 (3.33%) Lustre
3 4 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (21.67%) Terraform
2 21 (17.50%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.67%) Grafana
3 8 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.83%) Sysdig
5 6 (5.00%) Ansible
5 6 (5.00%) Puppet
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.67%) SCCM
7 1 (0.83%) CASB
7 1 (0.83%) Podman
7 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (24.17%) Google
2 22 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.83%) Databricks
4 6 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.33%) Dataiku
5 4 (3.33%) webMethods
6 3 (2.50%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.50%) Cognos
6 3 (2.50%) Eze Software Group
6 3 (2.50%) FactSet
6 3 (2.50%) IBM
6 3 (2.50%) NetApp
6 3 (2.50%) Sage
6 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.50%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.67%) Charles River
7 2 (1.67%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.67%) Foundry
7 2 (1.67%) SAP