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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 386 310
Rank change year-on-year -175 -76 -8
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 70 135 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.49% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 1.31% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 84 141
10th Percentile £209 £354 £345
25th Percentile £411 £442 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -8.70% -2.54%
75th Percentile £691 £671 £688
90th Percentile £758 £863 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £508 £575
% change year-on-year +4.43% -11.74% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £27.47 - £19.43
25th Percentile £34.18 £15.25 £20.81
Median hourly rate £45.35 £15.50 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +192.58% -34.74% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56.53 £15.75 £26.81
90th Percentile £63.23 - £28.28
UK median hourly rate £45.35 £15.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +192.58% -18.42% -

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 15,942 10,310 11,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.68% 37.43% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,670 6,964 7,779
10th Percentile £323 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £732 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 262 189
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.60 £19.30
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.01 £59.95
90th Percentile £82.75 £71.43 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.31 £29.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year +14.59% -3.10% -14.29%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -119 30 £552 -4.00% 297
South West -31 13 £438 +2.94% 41
North of England -73 10 £325 -31.58% 36
North West -54 8 £238 -47.57% 22
West Midlands -42 7 £750 +1.69% 18
Midlands -56 7 £750 +52.44% 28
East of England -28 5 £538 +126.32% 24
South East -85 3 £248 -38.39% 34
Yorkshire -38 2 £525 +3.70% 9
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 6 (8.57%) ArcGIS
2 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.86%) Apache
3 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.86%) Confluence
4 1 (1.43%) CMS
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.43%) Maximo
2 1 (1.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (62.86%) Azure
2 24 (34.29%) AWS
3 18 (25.71%) GCP
4 13 (18.57%) GitHub
4 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (12.86%) Serverless
6 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (7.14%) SaaS
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Databricks
8 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.29%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.29%) Mimecast
9 3 (4.29%) PaaS
9 3 (4.29%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.86%) IaaS
10 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) Internet
2 1 (1.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.00%) GIS
3 6 (8.57%) Power BI
4 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.29%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.86%) Big Data
5 2 (2.86%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.86%) QGIS
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.43%) Looker
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.43%) QlikView
6 1 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.71%) JIRA
3 2 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (1.43%) AdminStudio
4 1 (1.43%) InstallShield
General
1 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Public Sector
3 15 (21.43%) Finance
4 8 (11.43%) Telecoms
5 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.14%) Aerospace
6 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.71%) Billing
7 4 (5.71%) Legal
7 4 (5.71%) Marketing
7 4 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.86%) Advertising
9 2 (2.86%) Banking
9 2 (2.86%) Cyber-Physical System
9 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Military
10 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (15.71%) Architect
2 9 (12.86%) Consultant
2 9 (12.86%) Lead
3 7 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Consultant
4 5 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Data Science Leader
5 4 (5.71%) Data Science Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Data Scientist
5 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (5.71%) Senior
5 4 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Data Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Developer
6 3 (4.29%) Project Leader
6 3 (4.29%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) Terraform
2 7 (10.00%) React
3 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 5 (7.14%) Backbone.js
3 5 (7.14%) Redux
3 5 (7.14%) Vue
4 4 (5.71%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.86%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (2.86%) Apache Beam
5 2 (2.86%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.86%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (2.86%) Next.js
5 2 (2.86%) Node.js
5 2 (2.86%) YAML
6 1 (1.43%) .NET
6 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.43%) OpenID
6 1 (1.43%) SAML
6 1 (1.43%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Data Structures
2 7 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (8.57%) AI Agents
4 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.14%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.71%) TM Forum
6 3 (4.29%) FMCG
6 3 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.86%) Grid Computing
7 2 (2.86%) IoT
7 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.86%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Linux
3 3 (4.29%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.86%) Solaris
4 2 (2.86%) Unix
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.43%) AIX
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.43%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) AI
2 21 (30.00%) Agile
3 19 (27.14%) Machine Learning
4 12 (17.14%) Change Management
4 12 (17.14%) Data Science
4 12 (17.14%) DevOps
4 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (17.14%) Project Management
5 11 (15.71%) CI/CD
6 10 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (14.29%) Migration
6 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (12.86%) Data Analysis
7 9 (12.86%) Microservices
7 9 (12.86%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.43%) Analytics
8 8 (11.43%) Data Modelling
8 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (11.43%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) Python
2 13 (18.57%) SQL
3 8 (11.43%) PowerShell
4 7 (10.00%) Bash
5 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.29%) Java
7 2 (2.86%) Bicep
7 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.43%) LookML
8 1 (1.43%) Perl
8 1 (1.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.71%) Degree
4 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.86%) City & Guilds
7 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.86%) NVQ Level 3
7 2 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.43%) CCNA
8 1 (1.43%) CCSK
8 1 (1.43%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) CISSP
8 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.86%) NIST
2 2 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.43%) NCSC
3 1 (1.43%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.57%) Docker
3 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.71%) Ansible
2 4 (5.71%) SCCM
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.29%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.29%) Puppet
4 1 (1.43%) CASB
4 1 (1.43%) Grafana
4 1 (1.43%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.43%) Opsview
4 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.14%) Google
3 8 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.71%) Databricks
4 4 (5.71%) Oracle
4 4 (5.71%) SAP
5 3 (4.29%) Sophos
6 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.43%) ESRI
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.43%) Tenable
7 1 (1.43%) Workday