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

 6 months to
27 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 306 312
Rank change year-on-year -85 +6 +73
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 144 226 288
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.72% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 2.01% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 123 179
10th Percentile £403 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £716
90th Percentile £863 £796 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £19.10 £20.53 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.88 £23.56 £16.63
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +38.67% -44.03%
75th Percentile £41.56 £27.19 £25.50
90th Percentile £42.79 £28.43 £27.88
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £24.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +54.17% +28.00% -46.43%

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 11,844 11,252 13,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.51% 36.05% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,062 7,474 9,888
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 156 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%
75th Percentile £50.88 £58.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +21.13%

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 27 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 27 November 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 27 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 -50 73 £583 -7.10% 64
South East -3 23 £500 +17.65% 46
Midlands -26 16 £440 -23.48% 38
West Midlands -30 13 £435 -24.35% 27
North of England -63 11 £450 +25.70% 31
East of England - 11 £413 - 15
North West -30 8 £433 +0.29% 22
South West -10 6 £425 -41.38% 5
East Midlands -10 3 £451 -10.44% 11
Yorkshire -53 2 £513 +70.83% 6
North East -10 1 £450 +25.70% 3
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 9 (6.25%) JBoss
2 8 (5.56%) Apache
2 8 (5.56%) WebLogic
3 6 (4.17%) OpenStack
4 5 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.78%) Jupyter
5 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.39%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.47%) Revit
1 5 (3.47%) Weka
2 4 (2.78%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.08%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.69%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.69%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (57.64%) AWS
2 61 (42.36%) Azure
3 36 (25.00%) GCP
4 19 (13.19%) GitHub
5 15 (10.42%) SaaS
6 11 (7.64%) IaaS
6 11 (7.64%) PaaS
6 11 (7.64%) Power Platform
7 10 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (6.94%) Serverless
8 8 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.86%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (4.86%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.86%) OpenShift
10 6 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.47%) dbt
12 4 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) Firewall
2 6 (4.17%) Network Security
2 6 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.78%) DNS
4 3 (2.08%) LAN
4 3 (2.08%) WAN
4 3 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.69%) DMZ
5 1 (0.69%) HTTP
5 1 (0.69%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.69%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.69%) NAS
5 1 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.42%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 11 (7.64%) Power BI
4 10 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.25%) Tableau
6 6 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.78%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.78%) MemSQL
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.08%) Looker
9 2 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.39%) Big Data
9 2 (1.39%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.39%) Metadata
9 2 (1.39%) MySQL
9 2 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (14.58%) Git
2 15 (10.42%) GitLab
3 12 (8.33%) JIRA
4 9 (6.25%) IntelliJ
4 9 (6.25%) JUnit
5 8 (5.56%) Eclipse
5 8 (5.56%) Selenium
6 7 (4.86%) Artifactory
7 6 (4.17%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.08%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.39%) Postman
9 2 (1.39%) Vite
9 2 (1.39%) webpack
10 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.69%) Gatling
10 1 (0.69%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.69%) Gradle
10 1 (0.69%) MLflow
10 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (19.44%) Finance
3 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Banking
5 6 (4.17%) Marketing
6 5 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.47%) Retail
6 5 (3.47%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.78%) Military
8 2 (1.39%) Electronics
9 1 (0.69%) French Language
9 1 (0.69%) Front Office
9 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.69%) German Language
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (15.97%) Developer
2 21 (14.58%) Architect
3 15 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (9.03%) Senior
5 10 (6.94%) Python Developer
6 9 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) Consultant
7 8 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.86%) Java Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Lead
9 6 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.47%) Administrator
10 5 (3.47%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (2.78%) Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (2.78%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 4 (2.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.11%) REST
2 10 (6.94%) Spring
3 9 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (6.25%) J2EE
3 9 (6.25%) XML
4 8 (5.56%) EJB
4 8 (5.56%) Hibernate
4 8 (5.56%) HTML
4 8 (5.56%) HTML5
4 8 (5.56%) J2SE
4 8 (5.56%) JSON
4 8 (5.56%) Play Framework
4 8 (5.56%) SOAP
5 7 (4.86%) Web Services
6 6 (4.17%) ARM Templates
6 6 (4.17%) Middleware
6 6 (4.17%) RESTful
7 5 (3.47%) Kafka
7 5 (3.47%) NumPy
7 5 (3.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.86%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.47%) Grid Computing
6 5 (3.47%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.39%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.39%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.50%) Linux
2 10 (6.94%) Unix
2 10 (6.94%) Windows
3 3 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.39%) Android
4 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.69%) CentOS
5 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.58%) DevOps
2 49 (34.03%) Agile
3 48 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 34 (23.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (16.67%) Microservices
7 22 (15.28%) Migration
8 18 (12.50%) Visualisation
9 17 (11.81%) Containerisation
9 17 (11.81%) Scrum
10 16 (11.11%) Analytics
10 16 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.42%) AI
11 15 (10.42%) Data Engineering
11 15 (10.42%) Data Science
12 14 (9.72%) Data Management
12 14 (9.72%) SDLC
12 14 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (9.03%) Data Modelling
13 13 (9.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 52 (36.11%) Python
2 35 (24.31%) SQL
3 21 (14.58%) Java
4 15 (10.42%) Bash
5 14 (9.72%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.25%) Scala
7 6 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.08%) Bicep
8 3 (2.08%) C++
8 3 (2.08%) Go
8 3 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.08%) Ruby
9 2 (1.39%) C
9 2 (1.39%) Fortran
10 1 (0.69%) LookML
10 1 (0.69%) Perl
10 1 (0.69%) R
10 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 24 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.28%) Degree
3 21 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.64%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.78%) OCP
7 4 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (2.78%) PhD
7 4 (2.78%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.08%) PgMP
8 3 (2.08%) PMP
9 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.39%) MCITP
9 2 (1.39%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) GDPR
1 12 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.17%) QA
3 5 (3.47%) ISO 19650
3 5 (3.47%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.47%) SLA
4 3 (2.08%) NIST
4 3 (2.08%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.39%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.69%) GRC
6 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.69%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (18.75%) Docker
2 8 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.47%) GPFS
4 5 (3.47%) Lustre
4 5 (3.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (24.31%) Terraform
2 31 (21.53%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.03%) Puppet
4 11 (7.64%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.25%) Ansible
6 7 (4.86%) Grafana
6 7 (4.86%) Sysdig
7 4 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.08%) Salt
9 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.39%) SCOM
9 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.69%) Consul
10 1 (0.69%) vRealize
10 1 (0.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (15.28%) Google
2 21 (14.58%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.56%) webMethods
4 6 (4.17%) NetApp
5 5 (3.47%) Autodesk
5 5 (3.47%) Oracle
6 4 (2.78%) Databricks
6 4 (2.78%) Dataiku
6 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.08%) Samsung
7 3 (2.08%) VMware
8 2 (1.39%) Apple
8 2 (1.39%) HP
9 1 (0.69%) Adobe
9 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.69%) Cognos
9 1 (0.69%) IBM
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.69%) Sage
9 1 (0.69%) SAP
179 Cloud Computing jobs in England