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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 290 339
Rank change year-on-year -133 +49 +19
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 140 203 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.79% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 2.10% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 118 125
10th Percentile £406 £366 £263
25th Percentile £429 £481 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -3.36%
75th Percentile £610 £748 £675
90th Percentile £700 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
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% -68.70%
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 12,984 9,650 12,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.43% 37.61% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,962 6,496 9,030
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 148 312
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.38 £14.14
25th Percentile £19.19 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.96% +28.51% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.51% +27.91% -14.00%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -91 59 £610 -6.15% 28
Midlands -33 32 £550 +31.89% 17
South East -21 22 £525 +33.59% 22
East Midlands -14 20 £550 +52.14% 10
West Midlands -48 12 £430 -14.00% 7
North of England -68 12 £450 -1.10% 31
East of England -23 8 £413 -45.07% 11
North West -42 8 £430 -7.03% 21
North East -16 3 £450 +25.70% 3
South West -30 3 £419 -39.09% 10
Yorkshire -61 1 £525 -32.69% 7
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 (5.71%) Apache
1 8 (5.71%) JBoss
1 8 (5.71%) WebLogic
2 5 (3.57%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.86%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Revit
1 5 (3.57%) Weka
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.86%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.14%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.71%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.71%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.14%) Fidessa
1 3 (2.14%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 66 (47.14%) AWS
2 47 (33.57%) Azure
3 24 (17.14%) GCP
4 18 (12.86%) GitHub
4 18 (12.86%) Google Sheets
4 18 (12.86%) Google Workspace
5 11 (7.86%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.43%) Serverless
7 8 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.29%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.57%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.57%) PaaS
10 5 (3.57%) SaaS
10 5 (3.57%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (2.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.00%) Firewall
2 9 (6.43%) Network Security
3 7 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.43%) BGP
5 2 (1.43%) NGFW
5 2 (1.43%) OSPF
5 2 (1.43%) Wireless
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.71%) DMZ
6 1 (0.71%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.71%) LAN
6 1 (0.71%) NAS
6 1 (0.71%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.71%) VLAN
6 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.14%) Power BI
3 9 (6.43%) Tableau
4 8 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.14%) Big Data
6 3 (2.14%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.43%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.43%) Metadata
7 2 (1.43%) MySQL
7 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.43%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (13.57%) Git
2 12 (8.57%) GitLab
3 11 (7.86%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.43%) JIRA
5 8 (5.71%) Eclipse
5 8 (5.71%) IntelliJ
5 8 (5.71%) JUnit
5 8 (5.71%) Selenium
6 7 (5.00%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.14%) Toad
8 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.71%) Gatling
8 1 (0.71%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.71%) Gradle
8 1 (0.71%) MLflow
8 1 (0.71%) Postman
8 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.57%) Finance
3 20 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.43%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Banking
7 4 (2.86%) Military
7 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Marketing
8 3 (2.14%) Retail
9 2 (1.43%) Back Office
9 2 (1.43%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.71%) Front Office
10 1 (0.71%) German Language
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (9.29%) Programme Manager
1 13 (9.29%) Senior
2 12 (8.57%) Developer
3 11 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (7.86%) Lead
3 11 (7.86%) Software Engineer
4 9 (6.43%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (5.00%) Analyst
5 7 (5.00%) Architect
5 7 (5.00%) Consultant
6 6 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (4.29%) Java Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.57%) Data Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) Data Scientist
7 5 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.71%) REST
2 14 (10.00%) JSON
2 14 (10.00%) XML
3 9 (6.43%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (6.43%) Spring
4 8 (5.71%) EJB
4 8 (5.71%) Hibernate
4 8 (5.71%) HTML
4 8 (5.71%) HTML5
4 8 (5.71%) J2EE
4 8 (5.71%) J2SE
4 8 (5.71%) Play Framework
4 8 (5.71%) SOAP
4 8 (5.71%) YAML
5 7 (5.00%) NumPy
5 7 (5.00%) Pandas
6 6 (4.29%) scikit-learn
6 6 (4.29%) Web Services
7 4 (2.86%) Plotly
7 4 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Cloud Native
1 11 (7.86%) Public Cloud
2 10 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.57%) Grid Computing
4 5 (3.57%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.43%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.43%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.71%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.29%) Linux
2 9 (6.43%) Unix
3 5 (3.57%) Windows
4 4 (2.86%) VMS
5 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.71%) Android
6 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (36.43%) DevOps
2 42 (30.00%) Agile
3 38 (27.14%) Migration
4 37 (26.43%) CI/CD
5 32 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (22.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (20.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (19.29%) Data Analysis
9 24 (17.14%) Risk Management
10 23 (16.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (15.71%) AI
11 22 (15.71%) User Experience
12 21 (15.00%) Programme Management
13 20 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (14.29%) Data Transformation
13 20 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
14 18 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (12.86%) Dashboard Development
14 18 (12.86%) Software Engineering
14 18 (12.86%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 52 (37.14%) SQL
2 45 (32.14%) Python
3 17 (12.14%) Java
4 12 (8.57%) Bash
5 11 (7.86%) Scala
6 10 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.14%) C#
9 3 (2.14%) C++
10 2 (1.43%) C
10 2 (1.43%) Fortran
10 2 (1.43%) R
10 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.71%) Bicep
11 1 (0.71%) Perl
11 1 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.86%) Degree
3 30 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.86%) OCP
5 4 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.86%) PhD
5 4 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.14%) PgMP
6 3 (2.14%) PMP
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.43%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.71%) CISM
8 1 (0.71%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) GDPR
2 9 (6.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.57%) ISO 19650
4 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.86%) NCSC
4 4 (2.86%) QA
5 3 (2.14%) NIST
6 2 (1.43%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.43%) Software Quality Assurance
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
7 1 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (17.14%) Docker
2 6 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.57%) GPFS
3 5 (3.57%) Lustre
3 5 (3.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (20.00%) Terraform
2 25 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.86%) Puppet
4 9 (6.43%) Ansible
5 7 (5.00%) Grafana
5 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.00%) Sysdig
6 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.71%) CASB
7 1 (0.71%) Consul
7 1 (0.71%) Podman
7 1 (0.71%) Salt
7 1 (0.71%) SCCM
7 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.71%) VxRail
Vendors
1 36 (25.71%) Google
2 21 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.71%) webMethods
4 6 (4.29%) Databricks
4 6 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.57%) Autodesk
6 4 (2.86%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.14%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.14%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.14%) Cognos
7 3 (2.14%) Eze Software Group
7 3 (2.14%) FactSet
7 3 (2.14%) IBM
7 3 (2.14%) NetApp
7 3 (2.14%) Sage
7 3 (2.14%) Samsung
7 3 (2.14%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.43%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.43%) Foundry
8 2 (1.43%) Palo Alto