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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 331 314
Rank change year-on-year -190 -17 +5
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 81 156 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.64% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 1.71% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 100 164
10th Percentile £342 £367 £335
25th Percentile £450 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £589 £675 £675
90th Percentile £701 £751 £732
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.70
25th Percentile £46.25 - £17.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £74.30
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £19.00

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 14,773 9,113 11,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.18% 37.62% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,059 6,245 8,482
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.30% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 213 322
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £68.50 £69.43
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.48% -41.21%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -128 33 £633 +3.27% 25
East Midlands -16 18 £550 +29.03% 6
Midlands -48 18 £550 +29.03% 13
South West -28 10 £450 -18.18% 14
North of England -87 10 £475 - 20
South East -63 7 £550 +29.11% 19
North West -48 6 £413 -10.81% 11
North East -21 3 £450 -5.26% 3
East of England -39 1 £563 +12.39% 7
Yorkshire -65 1 £525 -4.55% 6
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 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Aladdin
1 3 (3.70%) Fidessa
1 3 (3.70%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.04%) Azure
2 19 (23.46%) Google Workspace
3 18 (22.22%) AWS
3 18 (22.22%) Google Sheets
4 10 (12.35%) GCP
5 9 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (9.88%) GitHub
7 7 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.94%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (3.70%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.70%) PaaS
11 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.47%) Route 53
11 2 (2.47%) Serverless
11 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.58%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) Network Security
3 2 (2.47%) BGP
3 2 (2.47%) NGFW
3 2 (2.47%) OSPF
3 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.47%) Wireless
4 1 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.23%) DNS
4 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.23%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) Power BI
1 3 (3.70%) Tableau
2 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.41%) JIRA
3 3 (3.70%) Git
3 3 (3.70%) Toad
4 2 (2.47%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) AdminStudio
5 1 (1.23%) InstallShield
5 1 (1.23%) Postman
General
1 34 (41.98%) Finance
1 34 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Banking
5 2 (2.47%) Advertising
5 2 (2.47%) Back Office
5 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) German Language
6 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Programme Manager
2 10 (12.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Analyst
3 8 (9.88%) Consultant
3 8 (9.88%) Lead
4 6 (7.41%) Azure Consultant
4 6 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Consultant
4 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Architect
5 5 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.17%) Senior
6 4 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (2.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) YAML
2 6 (7.41%) JSON
2 6 (7.41%) XML
3 3 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.70%) Node.js
3 3 (3.70%) React
4 2 (2.47%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.47%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (2.47%) Matplotlib
4 2 (2.47%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (2.47%) NestJS
4 2 (2.47%) Next.js
4 2 (2.47%) NumPy
4 2 (2.47%) Pandas
4 2 (2.47%) REST
4 2 (2.47%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.47%) Seaborn
4 2 (2.47%) Web Services
5 1 (1.23%) .NET
5 1 (1.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Public Cloud
2 7 (8.64%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.17%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.70%) FMCG
5 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) IoT
6 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.23%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.23%) Replication
7 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Linux
2 6 (7.41%) Windows
3 4 (4.94%) VMS
4 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.51%) Migration
2 23 (28.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (27.16%) DevOps
4 21 (25.93%) Change Management
4 21 (25.93%) Regulatory Compliance
5 20 (24.69%) Data Analysis
6 19 (23.46%) Risk Management
6 19 (23.46%) Technology Transformation
6 19 (23.46%) User Experience
7 18 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
7 18 (22.22%) Data Transformation
7 18 (22.22%) Programme Management
7 18 (22.22%) Quantitative Analysis
7 18 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (20.99%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (16.05%) Agile
11 12 (14.81%) CI/CD
12 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (12.35%) AI
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.86%) SQL
2 18 (22.22%) Python
3 5 (6.17%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.94%) Java
4 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.70%) Bash
5 3 (3.70%) C#
6 2 (2.47%) Bicep
6 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (27.16%) Degree
2 20 (24.69%) Security Cleared
3 15 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.23%) CCSK
6 1 (1.23%) CEH
6 1 (1.23%) CISA
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.23%) CISM
6 1 (1.23%) CISSP
6 1 (1.23%) City & Guilds
6 1 (1.23%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) GDPR
2 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.70%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.47%) NCSC
4 2 (2.47%) NIST
4 2 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) Terraform
2 11 (13.58%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.41%) Ansible
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.47%) CASB
5 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.47%) Puppet
5 2 (2.47%) SCCM
6 1 (1.23%) Grafana
6 1 (1.23%) Podman
6 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (39.51%) Google
2 26 (32.10%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.70%) Bloomberg
5 3 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.70%) Databricks
5 3 (3.70%) Eze Software Group
5 3 (3.70%) FactSet
5 3 (3.70%) Oracle
5 3 (3.70%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.47%) Charles River
6 2 (2.47%) Cognos
6 2 (2.47%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.47%) Foundry
6 2 (2.47%) IBM
6 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.47%) Ping Identity
6 2 (2.47%) Sage
6 2 (2.47%) SAP