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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 307 314
Rank change year-on-year -71 +7 +78
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 142 219 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.70% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.97% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 128 184
10th Percentile £401 £312 £373
25th Percentile £427 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -2.13% +3.12%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £713
90th Percentile £863 £786 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 £27.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.50 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.61% +50.00% -61.42%
75th Percentile £15.75 £29.25 £23.50
90th Percentile - - £27.80
UK median hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.11% +18.42% -45.71%

All Cloud 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 11,456 11,098 13,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.89% 35.69% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,762 7,360 10,209
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 142 287
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.35 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.56 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.61%

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 6 November 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
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 6 November 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 -55 67 £590 -5.60% 150
South East +7 25 £500 +25.00% 120
Midlands -30 18 £451 -9.90% 14
West Midlands -27 13 £435 -19.07% 12
East of England - 11 £413 - 31
North of England -59 10 £450 -4.15% 45
South West +2 7 £425 -38.18% 10
North West -21 7 £433 +19.31% 31
East Midlands -13 5 £460 +29.21% 1
Yorkshire -46 2 £513 +4.06% 6
North East -12 1 £450 -0.88% 8
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 10 (7.04%) JBoss
2 8 (5.63%) Apache
2 8 (5.63%) WebLogic
3 7 (4.93%) OpenStack
4 5 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.82%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.41%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Revit
2 4 (2.82%) Navisworks
2 4 (2.82%) Weka
3 3 (2.11%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.70%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.70%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.70%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (0.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 85 (59.86%) AWS
2 56 (39.44%) Azure
3 37 (26.06%) GCP
4 16 (11.27%) GitHub
5 15 (10.56%) Serverless
6 14 (9.86%) SaaS
7 13 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (8.45%) Amazon S3
9 10 (7.04%) IaaS
9 10 (7.04%) PaaS
10 9 (6.34%) Power Platform
11 7 (4.93%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (4.23%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.23%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.52%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (3.52%) dbt
14 4 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.34%) Firewall
2 6 (4.23%) DNS
3 5 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.11%) iSCSI
4 3 (2.11%) Network Security
4 3 (2.11%) SAN
5 2 (1.41%) LAN
5 2 (1.41%) WAN
5 2 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.70%) HTTP
6 1 (0.70%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.86%) Relational Database
2 13 (9.15%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (8.45%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.34%) Power BI
5 7 (4.93%) Tableau
6 6 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.23%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.52%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.82%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.82%) MemSQL
9 3 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.11%) Looker
10 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.41%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.41%) MySQL
10 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.70%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Git
2 15 (10.56%) GitLab
3 14 (9.86%) JIRA
4 10 (7.04%) IntelliJ
4 10 (7.04%) JUnit
5 8 (5.63%) Eclipse
5 8 (5.63%) Selenium
6 7 (4.93%) Jenkins
7 5 (3.52%) Artifactory
7 5 (3.52%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.41%) Postman
8 2 (1.41%) Vite
8 2 (1.41%) webpack
9 1 (0.70%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.70%) MLflow
9 1 (0.70%) MSI
9 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (47.18%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.24%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (18.31%) Finance
4 9 (6.34%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.93%) Banking
7 5 (3.52%) Marketing
7 5 (3.52%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.82%) Military
8 4 (2.82%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Electronics
9 1 (0.70%) French Language
9 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.70%) German Language
9 1 (0.70%) Local Government
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (19.01%) Architect
2 22 (15.49%) Developer
3 16 (11.27%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (9.86%) Senior
5 10 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (7.04%) Python Developer
6 9 (6.34%) Data Engineer
6 9 (6.34%) Lead
7 7 (4.93%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (4.93%) Consultant
7 7 (4.93%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Administrator
8 6 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Java Developer
8 6 (4.23%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (3.52%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.52%) Technical Leader
10 4 (2.82%) Senior Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.27%) REST
2 10 (7.04%) Spring
3 9 (6.34%) J2EE
3 9 (6.34%) SOAP
3 9 (6.34%) XML
4 8 (5.63%) EJB
4 8 (5.63%) Hibernate
4 8 (5.63%) HTML
4 8 (5.63%) HTML5
4 8 (5.63%) J2SE
4 8 (5.63%) JSON
4 8 (5.63%) Play Framework
5 7 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (4.93%) Kafka
5 7 (4.93%) Middleware
5 7 (4.93%) Web Services
6 6 (4.23%) ARM Templates
6 6 (4.23%) RESTful
7 4 (2.82%) NumPy
7 4 (2.82%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.34%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.63%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.52%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.82%) Grid Computing
5 4 (2.82%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.41%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.08%) Linux
2 11 (7.75%) Windows
3 10 (7.04%) Unix
4 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.11%) CentOS
5 3 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.41%) Android
6 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (38.73%) DevOps
2 53 (37.32%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (35.21%) Agile
4 39 (27.46%) CI/CD
5 34 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (19.01%) Microservices
7 21 (14.79%) Containerisation
8 19 (13.38%) Visualisation
9 18 (12.68%) Computer Science
9 18 (12.68%) Migration
10 17 (11.97%) Analytics
10 17 (11.97%) Data Engineering
10 17 (11.97%) Data Modelling
10 17 (11.97%) Scrum
11 16 (11.27%) Data Science
12 15 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (10.56%) Mentoring
13 14 (9.86%) Data Management
13 14 (9.86%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 59 (41.55%) Python
2 37 (26.06%) SQL
3 27 (19.01%) Java
4 14 (9.86%) Bash
4 14 (9.86%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.75%) Scala
6 8 (5.63%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.11%) Bicep
8 3 (2.11%) C++
8 3 (2.11%) Go
8 3 (2.11%) Ruby
9 2 (1.41%) C
9 2 (1.41%) Fortran
10 1 (0.70%) C#
10 1 (0.70%) LookML
10 1 (0.70%) Perl
10 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.70%) VB
10 1 (0.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (19.01%) Degree
2 20 (14.08%) Security Cleared
3 18 (12.68%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.75%) Master's Degree
5 10 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.93%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.82%) PhD
9 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.11%) OCP
9 3 (2.11%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.11%) PgMP
9 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.11%) PMP
10 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.41%) MCITP
10 2 (1.41%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.15%) GDPR
2 10 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (6.34%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.23%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.23%) QA
5 5 (3.52%) ISO 19650
5 5 (3.52%) SLA
6 4 (2.82%) NIST
7 3 (2.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (2.11%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.41%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
System Software
1 28 (19.72%) Docker
2 7 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.82%) GPFS
4 4 (2.82%) Lustre
4 4 (2.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (2.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (22.54%) Terraform
2 31 (21.83%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.15%) Puppet
4 11 (7.75%) Ansible
5 9 (6.34%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.52%) Grafana
6 5 (3.52%) Sysdig
7 4 (2.82%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.11%) Salt
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.41%) SCOM
9 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.70%) Consul
10 1 (0.70%) SCCM
10 1 (0.70%) vRealize
10 1 (0.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (14.79%) Google
2 18 (12.68%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.63%) webMethods
4 6 (4.23%) NetApp
4 6 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.52%) Autodesk
5 5 (3.52%) Oracle
5 5 (3.52%) VMware
6 4 (2.82%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.11%) Databricks
7 3 (2.11%) Samsung
8 2 (1.41%) Apple
8 2 (1.41%) HP
8 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.41%) Splunk
9 1 (0.70%) Adobe
9 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.70%) Informatica
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.70%) SAP