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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 296 324
Rank change year-on-year -111 +28 +44
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 141 213 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.78% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 2.13% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 121 146
10th Percentile £406 £363 £313
25th Percentile £429 £478 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -1.71% +1.30%
75th Percentile £619 £738 £697
90th Percentile £863 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £523 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.13% +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 11,989 9,992 12,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.09% 36.58% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 6,676 9,078
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
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 £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 134 236
10th Percentile £14.46 £16.41 £14.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -1.38%
75th Percentile £57.31 £46.18 £50.40
90th Percentile £78.00 £67.63 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -1.05% +19.57% +2.22%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -61 62 £595 -4.80% 32
South East -13 25 £525 +23.53% 30
Midlands -29 22 £500 -13.04% 22
North of England -65 14 £450 -0.88% 22
West Midlands -39 13 £435 -24.35% 9
East Midlands -17 9 £525 +4.37% 12
North West -35 9 £430 -9.76% 9
East of England -9 7 £413 - 16
South West -17 5 £425 -41.38% 14
North East -11 3 £450 +25.70% 3
Yorkshire -52 2 £513 +1.99% 10
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 (5.67%) Apache
1 8 (5.67%) JBoss
1 8 (5.67%) WebLogic
2 5 (3.55%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.84%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.84%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Revit
1 5 (3.55%) Weka
2 4 (2.84%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.13%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.71%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.71%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 70 (49.65%) AWS
2 57 (40.43%) Azure
3 29 (20.57%) GCP
4 19 (13.48%) GitHub
5 10 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (7.09%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.09%) SaaS
5 10 (7.09%) Serverless
6 8 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.67%) IaaS
6 8 (5.67%) PaaS
7 7 (4.96%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.96%) Google Sheets
7 7 (4.96%) Google Workspace
8 6 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.26%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.64%) Firewall
2 9 (6.38%) Network Security
3 8 (5.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.42%) BGP
5 2 (1.42%) LAN
5 2 (1.42%) NGFW
5 2 (1.42%) OSPF
5 2 (1.42%) WAN
5 2 (1.42%) Wireless
6 1 (0.71%) DMZ
6 1 (0.71%) DNS
6 1 (0.71%) HTTP
6 1 (0.71%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.71%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.09%) Power BI
3 9 (6.38%) MongoDB
3 9 (6.38%) Tableau
4 5 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.13%) Big Data
5 3 (2.13%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.13%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.42%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.42%) Metadata
6 2 (1.42%) MySQL
6 2 (1.42%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (14.89%) Git
2 12 (8.51%) GitLab
2 12 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.67%) Eclipse
3 8 (5.67%) IntelliJ
3 8 (5.67%) JUnit
3 8 (5.67%) Selenium
4 7 (4.96%) Artifactory
4 7 (4.96%) JIRA
5 2 (1.42%) Vite
5 2 (1.42%) webpack
6 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.71%) Gatling
6 1 (0.71%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.71%) Gradle
6 1 (0.71%) MLflow
6 1 (0.71%) Postman
6 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (41.13%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.44%) Finance
3 20 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.26%) Banking
7 4 (2.84%) Military
7 4 (2.84%) Retail
8 3 (2.13%) Marketing
8 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.42%) German Language
9 2 (1.42%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) French Language
10 1 (0.71%) Front Office
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (10.64%) Developer
2 13 (9.22%) Architect
2 13 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (9.22%) Senior
3 11 (7.80%) Software Engineer
4 10 (7.09%) Lead
5 9 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (5.67%) Consultant
7 7 (4.96%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Python Developer
9 5 (3.55%) Analyst
9 5 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.55%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (2.84%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.84%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.64%) XML
2 14 (9.93%) JSON
3 13 (9.22%) REST
4 9 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (6.38%) J2EE
4 9 (6.38%) Spring
5 8 (5.67%) EJB
5 8 (5.67%) Hibernate
5 8 (5.67%) HTML
5 8 (5.67%) HTML5
5 8 (5.67%) J2SE
5 8 (5.67%) Play Framework
5 8 (5.67%) SOAP
5 8 (5.67%) YAML
6 6 (4.26%) NumPy
6 6 (4.26%) Pandas
7 5 (3.55%) ARM Templates
7 5 (3.55%) RESTful
7 5 (3.55%) scikit-learn
7 5 (3.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.80%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.09%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.38%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.55%) Grid Computing
4 5 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.55%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.42%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.42%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.71%) IoT
8 1 (0.71%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.31%) Linux
2 10 (7.09%) Unix
2 10 (7.09%) Windows
3 4 (2.84%) VMS
4 3 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.42%) Android
5 2 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (41.13%) DevOps
2 43 (30.50%) Agile
3 42 (29.79%) CI/CD
4 39 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (21.99%) Migration
7 21 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (13.48%) AI
10 18 (12.77%) Software Engineering
11 17 (12.06%) Microservices
12 16 (11.35%) Data Science
13 15 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (10.64%) Machine Learning
13 15 (10.64%) Visualisation
14 14 (9.93%) Data Analysis
14 14 (9.93%) Generative AI
15 13 (9.22%) Analytics
15 13 (9.22%) Project Management
16 12 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.75%) Python
2 39 (27.66%) SQL
3 17 (12.06%) Java
4 13 (9.22%) Bash
4 13 (9.22%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.80%) Scala
6 5 (3.55%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.84%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.13%) C++
8 3 (2.13%) Ruby
9 2 (1.42%) Bicep
9 2 (1.42%) C
9 2 (1.42%) Fortran
9 2 (1.42%) Go
9 2 (1.42%) R
10 1 (0.71%) C#
10 1 (0.71%) Perl
10 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.71%) XPath
Qualifications
1 36 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.89%) Degree
4 8 (5.67%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.84%) OCP
6 4 (2.84%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.84%) PhD
6 4 (2.84%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.13%) PgMP
7 3 (2.13%) PMP
8 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.42%) MCITP
8 2 (1.42%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (7.09%) GDPR
3 6 (4.26%) QA
4 5 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.55%) ISO 19650
4 5 (3.55%) SLA
5 3 (2.13%) NCSC
5 3 (2.13%) NIST
6 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.42%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.42%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.71%) JSP 440
System Software
1 27 (19.15%) Docker
2 7 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.26%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.55%) GPFS
4 5 (3.55%) Lustre
4 5 (3.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 5 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (23.40%) Terraform
2 30 (21.28%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.80%) Puppet
4 10 (7.09%) Ansible
5 8 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.96%) Grafana
6 7 (4.96%) Sysdig
7 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.42%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.42%) SCOM
7 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.71%) CASB
8 1 (0.71%) Consul
8 1 (0.71%) Podman
8 1 (0.71%) Salt
8 1 (0.71%) SCCM
8 1 (0.71%) vRealize
8 1 (0.71%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (20.57%) Google
2 24 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.67%) webMethods
4 6 (4.26%) Databricks
4 6 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.55%) Autodesk
5 5 (3.55%) NetApp
5 5 (3.55%) Oracle
6 4 (2.84%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.13%) Samsung
8 2 (1.42%) Apple
8 2 (1.42%) Cognos
8 2 (1.42%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.42%) HP
8 2 (1.42%) IBM
8 2 (1.42%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.42%) Sage
8 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.42%) VMware
9 1 (0.71%) Adobe