Cloud Computing Contracts in England

Cloud Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 323 306
Rank change year-on-year -4 -17 +129
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 173 237 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.64% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.95% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 157 281
10th Percentile £348 £310 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £694
90th Percentile £751 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £568
% change year-on-year -10.26% +3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £16.70 -
25th Percentile - £17.38 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £19.00
75th Percentile - £53.75 £27.69
90th Percentile - £74.30 £34.78
UK median hourly rate - £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

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 9,988 12,162 17,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.61% 32.68% 36.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,733 8,677 12,840
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 327 302
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.06 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 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 +25 100 £585 -3.54% 1,207
North of England -24 19 £466 +3.56% 255
South East +39 17 £402 +28.60% 183
East of England +33 12 £250 -62.96% 133
Midlands +21 11 £426 +23.55% 132
North West +2 10 £459 +1.94% 144
East Midlands - 10 £426 - 47
Yorkshire -13 7 £550 +15.79% 95
South West +13 6 £550 -15.38% 108
North East -4 2 £463 - 16
West Midlands +5 1 - - 85
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.62%) Confluence
3 6 (3.47%) Apache
3 6 (3.47%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.31%) NetWeaver
5 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.58%) CMS
7 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.58%) SAS
7 1 (0.58%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (5.20%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.89%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.58%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (0.58%) Maximo
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.46%) AWS
2 64 (36.99%) Azure
3 45 (26.01%) GCP
4 23 (13.29%) SaaS
5 18 (10.40%) Power Platform
6 16 (9.25%) GitHub
7 15 (8.67%) IaaS
7 15 (8.67%) PaaS
8 14 (8.09%) Serverless
9 10 (5.78%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.78%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.20%) OCI
11 7 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (3.47%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (3.47%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (2.89%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.09%) DNS
2 13 (7.51%) Firewall
3 6 (3.47%) Network Security
3 6 (3.47%) SAN
4 5 (2.89%) HTTP
4 5 (2.89%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.89%) VPN
5 4 (2.31%) DHCP
5 4 (2.31%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.73%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.16%) NAS
7 2 (1.16%) WAN
8 1 (0.58%) LAN
8 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.58%) VLAN
8 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.58%) Wireless
8 1 (0.58%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.29%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (9.25%) Power BI
3 15 (8.67%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.94%) Tableau
5 10 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (5.78%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (5.20%) Oracle ODI
6 9 (5.20%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (5.20%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.47%) Big Data
8 6 (3.47%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.47%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.47%) Flink
9 5 (2.89%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.73%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.73%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.73%) MemSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (13.87%) JIRA
2 12 (6.94%) TeamCity
3 11 (6.36%) Git
4 9 (5.20%) GitLab
5 8 (4.62%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.89%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (2.89%) Postman
6 5 (2.89%) Subversion
7 3 (1.73%) JUnit
8 2 (1.16%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.16%) ERwin
8 2 (1.16%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.16%) NetBeans
9 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.58%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.58%) MSI
9 1 (0.58%) Snyk
General
1 74 (42.77%) Social Skills
2 58 (33.53%) Finance
3 42 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.14%) Banking
5 9 (5.20%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.05%) Legal
6 7 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.89%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.73%) Marketing
10 3 (1.73%) Military
10 3 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Retail
11 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.16%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Back Office
12 1 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 37 (21.39%) Architect
2 25 (14.45%) Developer
3 24 (13.87%) Senior
4 16 (9.25%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (8.09%) Lead
6 13 (7.51%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.36%) Administrator
8 8 (4.62%) Analyst
8 8 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.62%) Report Writer
9 7 (4.05%) Azure Architect
9 7 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.05%) Senior Architect
10 6 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.47%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.47%) Linux Administrator
10 6 (3.47%) Security Architect
11 5 (2.89%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.51%) Middleware
2 12 (6.94%) REST
3 11 (6.36%) Kafka
4 9 (5.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (3.47%) OpenAPI
5 6 (3.47%) RESTful
5 6 (3.47%) Swagger
5 6 (3.47%) Web Services
6 5 (2.89%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.89%) EDI
6 5 (2.89%) LDAP
6 5 (2.89%) React
6 5 (2.89%) SOAP
6 5 (2.89%) Spring
6 5 (2.89%) XML
7 4 (2.31%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (2.31%) JDBC
7 4 (2.31%) JMS
7 4 (2.31%) SAP PI
7 4 (2.31%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.20%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.47%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.89%) PKI
6 5 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.89%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.31%) Clustering
7 4 (2.31%) Derivative
7 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.18%) Linux
2 18 (10.40%) Windows
3 12 (6.94%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.47%) Unix
5 4 (2.31%) CentOS
5 4 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.73%) Solaris
7 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.58%) VMS
8 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (39.31%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (32.95%) Agile
3 53 (30.64%) DevOps
4 32 (18.50%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.50%) Data Modelling
5 31 (17.92%) Analytics
5 31 (17.92%) Visualisation
6 28 (16.18%) Computer Science
7 25 (14.45%) Business Intelligence
7 25 (14.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (13.87%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (12.72%) Containerisation
9 22 (12.72%) ETL
10 21 (12.14%) Cloud Security
10 21 (12.14%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (11.56%) Migration
11 20 (11.56%) Workflow
12 19 (10.98%) Data Protection
13 17 (9.83%) Data Visualisation
13 17 (9.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 61 (35.26%) Python
2 51 (29.48%) SQL
3 28 (16.18%) Java
4 18 (10.40%) PowerShell
5 10 (5.78%) Bicep
6 9 (5.20%) Scala
6 9 (5.20%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.05%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.89%) Bash
8 5 (2.89%) C#
8 5 (2.89%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.31%) ABAP
9 4 (2.31%) Haskell
9 4 (2.31%) OCaml
9 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.73%) C++
10 3 (1.73%) Go
11 2 (1.16%) C
11 2 (1.16%) Perl
12 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (23.12%) Degree
2 23 (13.29%) Security Cleared
3 22 (12.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (11.56%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.78%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.47%) CISSP
8 4 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.31%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (2.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 4 (2.31%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.16%) PMP
10 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.58%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.87%) Data Quality
2 21 (12.14%) GDPR
3 11 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.62%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.47%) QA
5 6 (3.47%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (2.89%) NIST
7 3 (1.73%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.16%) MISRA
8 2 (1.16%) MISRA C
8 2 (1.16%) NCSC
8 2 (1.16%) SLA
9 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.58%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.58%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (11.56%) Docker
2 17 (9.83%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.05%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.16%) NFS
7 2 (1.16%) Veritas File System
7 2 (1.16%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.58%) Ceph
8 1 (0.58%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (14.45%) Terraform
2 22 (12.72%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.51%) Ansible
4 8 (4.62%) Puppet
5 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.31%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.31%) Salt
6 3 (1.73%) Netcool
6 3 (1.73%) Tivoli
7 2 (1.16%) Control-M
7 2 (1.16%) QRadar
7 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.16%) SCCM
8 1 (0.58%) CASB
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.58%) Nagios
8 1 (0.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.29%) Google
3 19 (10.98%) Oracle
4 12 (6.94%) VMware
5 10 (5.78%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.47%) Databricks
6 6 (3.47%) SAP
7 5 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.89%) Splunk
8 4 (2.31%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.31%) IBM
8 4 (2.31%) iManage
9 3 (1.73%) Murex
9 3 (1.73%) Qualys
10 2 (1.16%) BMC
10 2 (1.16%) Cisco
10 2 (1.16%) EMC
10 2 (1.16%) QNX
10 2 (1.16%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.16%) TIBCO