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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 280 315
Rank change year-on-year -123 +35 +48
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 138 212 238
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.79% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 2.16% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 119 140
10th Percentile £406 £363 £263
25th Percentile £426 £495 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% +0.87%
75th Percentile £616 £738 £700
90th Percentile £863 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 11,786 9,808 12,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.00% 36.72% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,146 6,531 9,054
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 130 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £45.89 £50.79
90th Percentile £78.45 £64.78 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%

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 12 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 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 -71 61 £590 -6.27% 36
South East -10 23 £525 +23.53% 46
Midlands -36 23 £510 -11.30% 29
West Midlands -34 13 £435 -24.35% 9
North of England -63 13 £450 -0.88% 44
East Midlands -12 10 £525 +4.37% 20
North West -39 9 £430 -9.76% 18
East of England -13 7 £413 - 20
South West -27 5 £425 -41.38% 21
North East -7 3 £450 +25.70% 6
Yorkshire -45 1 £525 +4.48% 20
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 (5.80%) Apache
1 8 (5.80%) JBoss
1 8 (5.80%) WebLogic
2 5 (3.62%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.90%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.90%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Revit
1 5 (3.62%) Weka
2 4 (2.90%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.17%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.72%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.72%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 68 (49.28%) AWS
2 54 (39.13%) Azure
3 27 (19.57%) GCP
4 19 (13.77%) GitHub
5 10 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (7.25%) SaaS
5 10 (7.25%) Serverless
6 9 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.80%) Google Sheets
7 8 (5.80%) Google Workspace
7 8 (5.80%) IaaS
7 8 (5.80%) PaaS
8 7 (5.07%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.35%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.59%) Firewall
2 8 (5.80%) Network Security
3 7 (5.07%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.45%) BGP
5 2 (1.45%) LAN
5 2 (1.45%) NGFW
5 2 (1.45%) OSPF
5 2 (1.45%) WAN
5 2 (1.45%) Wireless
6 1 (0.72%) DMZ
6 1 (0.72%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.72%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.97%) Relational Database
2 9 (6.52%) Power BI
3 8 (5.80%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.80%) Tableau
4 5 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.17%) Big Data
6 3 (2.17%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.45%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.45%) Metadata
7 2 (1.45%) MySQL
7 2 (1.45%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (15.22%) Git
2 12 (8.70%) GitLab
2 12 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.80%) Eclipse
3 8 (5.80%) IntelliJ
3 8 (5.80%) JUnit
3 8 (5.80%) Selenium
4 7 (5.07%) Artifactory
4 7 (5.07%) JIRA
5 2 (1.45%) Vite
5 2 (1.45%) webpack
6 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.72%) Gatling
6 1 (0.72%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.72%) Gradle
6 1 (0.72%) MLflow
6 1 (0.72%) Postman
6 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.39%) Finance
3 20 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.62%) Banking
7 4 (2.90%) Military
7 4 (2.90%) Retail
8 3 (2.17%) Marketing
8 3 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.45%) Legal
10 1 (0.72%) Electronics
10 1 (0.72%) Front Office
10 1 (0.72%) German Language
10 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (9.42%) Developer
1 13 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (8.70%) Architect
2 12 (8.70%) Senior
3 11 (7.97%) Software Engineer
4 10 (7.25%) Lead
5 9 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) Consultant
6 8 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.07%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Analyst
8 5 (3.62%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Python Developer
9 4 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Data Scientist
9 4 (2.90%) Project Manager
9 4 (2.90%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.87%) XML
2 14 (10.14%) JSON
3 13 (9.42%) REST
4 9 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (6.52%) J2EE
4 9 (6.52%) Spring
5 8 (5.80%) EJB
5 8 (5.80%) Hibernate
5 8 (5.80%) HTML
5 8 (5.80%) HTML5
5 8 (5.80%) J2SE
5 8 (5.80%) Play Framework
5 8 (5.80%) SOAP
5 8 (5.80%) YAML
6 6 (4.35%) NumPy
6 6 (4.35%) Pandas
7 5 (3.62%) ARM Templates
7 5 (3.62%) RESTful
7 5 (3.62%) scikit-learn
7 5 (3.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.25%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.52%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.62%) Grid Computing
4 5 (3.62%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.45%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.67%) Linux
2 10 (7.25%) Unix
2 10 (7.25%) Windows
3 4 (2.90%) VMS
4 3 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.45%) Android
5 2 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (39.86%) DevOps
2 42 (30.43%) Agile
2 42 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 36 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (23.19%) Migration
5 23 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (13.77%) AI
8 18 (13.04%) Software Engineering
9 17 (12.32%) Microservices
10 16 (11.59%) Data Science
11 15 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (10.87%) Data Analysis
11 15 (10.87%) Machine Learning
12 14 (10.14%) Generative AI
12 14 (10.14%) Visualisation
13 13 (9.42%) Project Management
13 13 (9.42%) Risk Management
13 13 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.33%) Python
2 39 (28.26%) SQL
3 16 (11.59%) Java
4 13 (9.42%) Bash
4 13 (9.42%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.97%) Scala
6 5 (3.62%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.90%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.17%) C++
8 3 (2.17%) Ruby
9 2 (1.45%) Bicep
9 2 (1.45%) C
9 2 (1.45%) Fortran
9 2 (1.45%) Go
9 2 (1.45%) R
10 1 (0.72%) C#
10 1 (0.72%) Perl
10 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.72%) XPath
Qualifications
1 37 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.22%) Degree
4 7 (5.07%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.90%) OCP
5 4 (2.90%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.90%) PhD
5 4 (2.90%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.17%) PgMP
6 3 (2.17%) PMP
7 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.45%) MCITP
7 2 (1.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (7.97%) GDPR
3 6 (4.35%) QA
4 5 (3.62%) ISO 19650
4 5 (3.62%) SLA
5 4 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.90%) NCSC
6 3 (2.17%) NIST
7 2 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.45%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.72%) GRC
8 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.72%) JSP 440
System Software
1 27 (19.57%) Docker
2 7 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.62%) GPFS
3 5 (3.62%) Lustre
3 5 (3.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 5 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (23.91%) Terraform
2 29 (21.01%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.97%) Puppet
4 10 (7.25%) Ansible
5 7 (5.07%) Grafana
5 7 (5.07%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.07%) Sysdig
6 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.45%) SCOM
6 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.72%) CASB
7 1 (0.72%) Consul
7 1 (0.72%) Podman
7 1 (0.72%) Salt
7 1 (0.72%) SCCM
7 1 (0.72%) vRealize
7 1 (0.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (21.01%) Google
2 23 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.80%) webMethods
4 6 (4.35%) Databricks
4 6 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.62%) Autodesk
5 5 (3.62%) NetApp
5 5 (3.62%) Oracle
6 4 (2.90%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.17%) Samsung
8 2 (1.45%) Apple
8 2 (1.45%) Cognos
8 2 (1.45%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.45%) HP
8 2 (1.45%) IBM
8 2 (1.45%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.45%) Sage
8 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.45%) VMware
9 1 (0.72%) Adobe
178 Cloud Computing jobs in England