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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 293 307
Rank change year-on-year -110 +14 +72
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 143 219 251
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.78% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 2.12% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 123 152
10th Percentile £406 £366 £325
25th Percentile £427 £484 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £628 £738 £700
90th Percentile £863 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile £30.65 £20.53 -
25th Percentile £43.61 £23.56 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +82.69% +44.44% -63.45%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.19 £19.31
90th Percentile - £28.43 £19.43
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £24.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +97.92% +33.33% -48.57%

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 12,062 10,333 12,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.14% 36.62% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,320 6,919 9,215
10th Percentile £304 £313 £278
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 136 245
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £28.75 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +21.77% +4.86%
75th Percentile £56.38 £49.06 £53.50
90th Percentile £76.96 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%

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 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Computing in England

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 December 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
London -74 64 £590 -5.90% 66
South East -4 26 £525 +23.53% 65
Midlands -36 21 £480 -16.52% 42
North of England -71 14 £450 -0.88% 47
West Midlands -27 13 £435 -24.35% 15
North West -35 9 £430 -9.76% 20
East Midlands -13 8 £523 +3.88% 25
East of England -10 7 £413 - 35
South West -12 5 £425 -41.38% 28
North East -6 3 £450 +25.70% 5
Yorkshire -51 2 £513 +1.99% 22
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 8 (5.59%) Apache
1 8 (5.59%) JBoss
1 8 (5.59%) WebLogic
2 5 (3.50%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.80%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Revit
1 5 (3.50%) Weka
2 4 (2.80%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.10%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.70%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.70%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.05%) AWS
2 58 (40.56%) Azure
3 29 (20.28%) GCP
4 18 (12.59%) GitHub
5 11 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.69%) SaaS
6 10 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (6.99%) Serverless
7 8 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.59%) IaaS
7 8 (5.59%) PaaS
8 7 (4.90%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.20%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.20%) Google Sheets
9 6 (4.20%) Google Workspace
9 6 (4.20%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.39%) Firewall
2 7 (4.90%) Network Security
2 7 (4.90%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.40%) LAN
4 2 (1.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.70%) BGP
5 1 (0.70%) DMZ
5 1 (0.70%) DNS
5 1 (0.70%) HTTP
5 1 (0.70%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.70%) NAS
5 1 (0.70%) NGFW
5 1 (0.70%) OSPF
5 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 11 (7.69%) Power BI
3 10 (6.99%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.99%) Tableau
4 6 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.10%) Big Data
5 3 (2.10%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.10%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.40%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.40%) MemSQL
6 2 (1.40%) Metadata
6 2 (1.40%) MySQL
6 2 (1.40%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (14.69%) Git
2 12 (8.39%) GitLab
3 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.59%) Eclipse
4 8 (5.59%) IntelliJ
4 8 (5.59%) JUnit
4 8 (5.59%) Selenium
5 7 (4.90%) Artifactory
5 7 (4.90%) JIRA
6 2 (1.40%) Postman
6 2 (1.40%) Vite
6 2 (1.40%) webpack
7 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.70%) Gatling
7 1 (0.70%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.70%) Gradle
7 1 (0.70%) MLflow
7 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (39.86%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.58%) Finance
3 22 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.20%) Banking
7 4 (2.80%) Military
7 4 (2.80%) Retail
8 3 (2.10%) Marketing
8 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.40%) German Language
9 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.70%) Electronics
10 1 (0.70%) French Language
10 1 (0.70%) Front Office
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (13.29%) Developer
2 14 (9.79%) Architect
3 13 (9.09%) Senior
4 12 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 10 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.29%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (6.29%) Lead
7 9 (6.29%) Python Developer
8 8 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Consultant
8 8 (5.59%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.50%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.80%) Analyst
11 4 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Data Scientist
11 4 (2.80%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.10%) Capability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.49%) XML
2 14 (9.79%) JSON
2 14 (9.79%) REST
3 9 (6.29%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (6.29%) J2EE
3 9 (6.29%) Spring
4 8 (5.59%) EJB
4 8 (5.59%) Hibernate
4 8 (5.59%) HTML
4 8 (5.59%) HTML5
4 8 (5.59%) J2SE
4 8 (5.59%) Play Framework
4 8 (5.59%) SOAP
4 8 (5.59%) YAML
5 6 (4.20%) NumPy
5 6 (4.20%) Pandas
5 6 (4.20%) Web Services
6 5 (3.50%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.50%) RESTful
6 5 (3.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.29%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.59%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.50%) Grid Computing
5 5 (3.50%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.40%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.08%) Linux
2 10 (6.99%) Unix
2 10 (6.99%) Windows
3 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.40%) Android
4 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (41.26%) DevOps
2 44 (30.77%) Agile
3 41 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (27.97%) CI/CD
5 30 (20.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (19.58%) Migration
7 19 (13.29%) AI
7 19 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (12.59%) Microservices
8 18 (12.59%) Software Engineering
9 16 (11.19%) Data Science
9 16 (11.19%) Visualisation
10 15 (10.49%) Machine Learning
11 14 (9.79%) Generative AI
12 13 (9.09%) Analytics
12 13 (9.09%) Data Analysis
12 13 (9.09%) Data Engineering
12 13 (9.09%) Scrum
13 12 (8.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (37.76%) Python
2 40 (27.97%) SQL
3 18 (12.59%) Java
4 13 (9.09%) Bash
4 13 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.69%) Scala
6 5 (3.50%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.80%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.10%) C++
8 3 (2.10%) Ruby
9 2 (1.40%) Bicep
9 2 (1.40%) C
9 2 (1.40%) Fortran
9 2 (1.40%) Go
9 2 (1.40%) R
10 1 (0.70%) C#
10 1 (0.70%) Perl
10 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 35 (24.48%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.38%) Degree
4 9 (6.29%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.80%) OCP
6 4 (2.80%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.80%) PhD
6 4 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.10%) PgMP
7 3 (2.10%) PMP
8 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.40%) MCITP
8 2 (1.40%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (6.99%) GDPR
3 6 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.20%) QA
4 5 (3.50%) ISO 19650
4 5 (3.50%) SLA
5 3 (2.10%) NCSC
5 3 (2.10%) NIST
6 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.40%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.40%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.70%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.70%) JSP 440
System Software
1 27 (18.88%) Docker
2 7 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.20%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.50%) GPFS
4 5 (3.50%) Lustre
4 5 (3.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 5 (3.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (22.38%) Terraform
2 29 (20.28%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.69%) Puppet
4 9 (6.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.59%) Ansible
6 7 (4.90%) Grafana
6 7 (4.90%) Sysdig
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.40%) SCOM
7 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.70%) CASB
8 1 (0.70%) Consul
8 1 (0.70%) Podman
8 1 (0.70%) Salt
8 1 (0.70%) SCCM
8 1 (0.70%) vRealize
8 1 (0.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (18.88%) Google
2 22 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.59%) webMethods
4 7 (4.90%) Databricks
5 6 (4.20%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.50%) Autodesk
6 5 (3.50%) NetApp
6 5 (3.50%) Oracle
7 4 (2.80%) Dataiku
8 3 (2.10%) Samsung
9 2 (1.40%) Apple
9 2 (1.40%) Cognos
9 2 (1.40%) HP
9 2 (1.40%) IBM
9 2 (1.40%) Sage
9 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.40%) VMware
10 1 (0.70%) Adobe
10 1 (0.70%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
276 Cloud Computing jobs in England