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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 284 319
Rank change year-on-year -154 +35 +13
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 127 211 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.85% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 2.23% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 123 150
10th Percentile £406 £383 £263
25th Percentile £429 £500 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +1.69%
75th Percentile £597 £741 £675
90th Percentile £688 £800 £778
UK median daily rate £531 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.65% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £40.88 £19.85 -
25th Percentile £45.59 £21.88 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.27% +41.67% -64.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.13 £36.44
90th Percentile - £26.35 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £24.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +97.92% +33.33% -57.65%

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 13,352 9,455 12,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.09% 37.96% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,192 6,547 8,877
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £410 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £707 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 156 331
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.23% +21.67% -14.52%

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 9 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 9 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 -104 52 £650 - 28
Midlands -43 29 £550 +31.89% 31
South East -33 22 £525 +16.67% 29
East Midlands -21 20 £550 +52.14% 18
North of England -78 10 £450 -3.43% 42
West Midlands -49 9 £429 -14.20% 12
East of England -27 8 £413 -45.07% 11
North West -37 6 £400 -14.16% 25
North East -11 3 £450 +25.70% 8
South West -40 3 £419 -39.09% 10
Yorkshire -67 1 £525 -19.23% 11
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 (6.30%) Apache
1 8 (6.30%) JBoss
1 8 (6.30%) WebLogic
2 5 (3.94%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.15%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Weka
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.15%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.79%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.79%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.36%) Fidessa
1 3 (2.36%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 61 (48.03%) AWS
2 43 (33.86%) Azure
3 18 (14.17%) GCP
3 18 (14.17%) GitHub
3 18 (14.17%) Google Sheets
3 18 (14.17%) Google Workspace
4 11 (8.66%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.30%) Serverless
6 7 (5.51%) Amazon ECR
6 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.94%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.94%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (3.15%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.36%) IBM Watson
9 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.02%) Firewall
2 9 (7.09%) Network Security
3 7 (5.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.57%) BGP
5 2 (1.57%) NGFW
5 2 (1.57%) OSPF
5 2 (1.57%) Wireless
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.79%) DMZ
6 1 (0.79%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.79%) LAN
6 1 (0.79%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.79%) VLAN
6 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.87%) Power BI
2 9 (7.09%) Relational Database
2 9 (7.09%) Tableau
3 8 (6.30%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.36%) Big Data
5 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.57%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.57%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.57%) Metadata
6 2 (1.57%) MySQL
6 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.57%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (14.96%) Git
2 12 (9.45%) GitLab
3 11 (8.66%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.09%) JIRA
5 8 (6.30%) Eclipse
5 8 (6.30%) IntelliJ
5 8 (6.30%) JUnit
5 8 (6.30%) Selenium
6 7 (5.51%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.36%) Toad
8 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.79%) Gatling
8 1 (0.79%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.79%) Gradle
8 1 (0.79%) MLflow
8 1 (0.79%) Postman
8 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (43.31%) Social Skills
2 38 (29.92%) Finance
3 15 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.09%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Banking
6 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.36%) Military
7 3 (2.36%) Retail
8 2 (1.57%) Back Office
8 2 (1.57%) Legal
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Front Office
9 1 (0.79%) German Language
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (10.24%) Programme Manager
2 11 (8.66%) Developer
2 11 (8.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (8.66%) Senior
2 11 (8.66%) Software Engineer
3 10 (7.87%) Lead
4 9 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Architect
7 5 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Data Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (3.15%) Consultant
8 4 (3.15%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.15%) Python Developer
8 4 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.81%) REST
2 14 (11.02%) JSON
2 14 (11.02%) XML
3 9 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (7.09%) Spring
4 8 (6.30%) EJB
4 8 (6.30%) Hibernate
4 8 (6.30%) HTML
4 8 (6.30%) HTML5
4 8 (6.30%) J2EE
4 8 (6.30%) J2SE
4 8 (6.30%) Play Framework
4 8 (6.30%) SOAP
4 8 (6.30%) YAML
5 7 (5.51%) NumPy
5 7 (5.51%) Pandas
6 6 (4.72%) scikit-learn
6 6 (4.72%) Web Services
7 4 (3.15%) Plotly
7 4 (3.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Public Cloud
2 10 (7.87%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.09%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.51%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.94%) Grid Computing
5 5 (3.94%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.15%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.36%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.57%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.79%) IoT
9 1 (0.79%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.96%) Linux
2 8 (6.30%) Unix
3 5 (3.94%) Windows
4 4 (3.15%) VMS
5 3 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.80%) DevOps
2 39 (30.71%) Agile
3 36 (28.35%) Migration
4 34 (26.77%) CI/CD
5 31 (24.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (21.26%) Data Analysis
7 27 (21.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (17.32%) Risk Management
8 22 (17.32%) User Experience
9 21 (16.54%) Programme Management
9 21 (16.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (15.75%) AI
10 20 (15.75%) Data Transformation
10 20 (15.75%) Regulatory Compliance
11 19 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (14.17%) Change Management
12 18 (14.17%) Quantitative Analysis
12 18 (14.17%) Software Engineering
12 18 (14.17%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 49 (38.58%) SQL
2 42 (33.07%) Python
3 15 (11.81%) Java
4 11 (8.66%) Bash
4 11 (8.66%) Scala
5 9 (7.09%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.72%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.94%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.36%) C#
8 3 (2.36%) C++
9 2 (1.57%) C
9 2 (1.57%) Fortran
9 2 (1.57%) R
10 1 (0.79%) Perl
10 1 (0.79%) Ruby
10 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.41%) Degree
3 30 (23.62%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.72%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.15%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.15%) OCP
5 4 (3.15%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (3.15%) PhD
5 4 (3.15%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.36%) PgMP
6 3 (2.36%) PMP
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.57%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.79%) CISM
8 1 (0.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) GDPR
2 7 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.15%) NCSC
4 3 (2.36%) NIST
4 3 (2.36%) QA
5 2 (1.57%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.57%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.79%) JSP 440
System Software
1 21 (16.54%) Docker
2 6 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.94%) GPFS
3 5 (3.94%) Lustre
3 5 (3.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (2.36%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (21.26%) Terraform
2 22 (17.32%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.66%) Puppet
4 8 (6.30%) Ansible
5 7 (5.51%) Grafana
5 7 (5.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.51%) Sysdig
6 2 (1.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.79%) CASB
7 1 (0.79%) Consul
7 1 (0.79%) Podman
7 1 (0.79%) Salt
7 1 (0.79%) SCCM
7 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (25.20%) Google
2 18 (14.17%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.30%) webMethods
4 6 (4.72%) Databricks
4 6 (4.72%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.15%) Dataiku
6 3 (2.36%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.36%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.36%) Cognos
6 3 (2.36%) Eze Software Group
6 3 (2.36%) FactSet
6 3 (2.36%) IBM
6 3 (2.36%) NetApp
6 3 (2.36%) Sage
6 3 (2.36%) Samsung
6 3 (2.36%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.57%) Charles River
7 2 (1.57%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.57%) Foundry
7 2 (1.57%) Palo Alto