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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 329 301
Rank change year-on-year -31 -28 +118
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 143 210 329
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.64% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.86% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 130 220
10th Percentile £402 £344 £412
25th Percentile £437 £416 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -0.86% +5.45%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £863 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.30% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £19.43 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £20.81 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.50 £23.75 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.74% +30.14% +4.29%
75th Percentile £15.75 £26.81 £21.50
90th Percentile - £28.28 £27.73
UK median hourly rate £15.50 £20.75 £18.25
% change year-on-year -25.30% +13.70% -7.59%

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 10,438 11,302 15,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.59% 34.57% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,063 7,706 11,129
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 176 304
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.33 £14.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.99 £67.44
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 -8 81 £575 -8.00% 159
South East +15 15 £426 -8.39% 38
North of England -35 15 £488 +8.33% 27
Midlands -12 13 £492 -14.43% 18
East of England - 10 £238 - 23
North West -15 9 £453 +2.08% 19
West Midlands -15 9 £500 -13.04% 8
South West +20 5 £425 -26.09% 7
Yorkshire -30 4 £513 +13.89% 5
East Midlands - 4 £471 - 10
North East -6 2 £463 - 4
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 6 (4.20%) JBoss
2 5 (3.50%) Apache
2 5 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.50%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.80%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.40%) Confluence
4 2 (1.40%) NetWeaver
4 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.40%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Revit
2 3 (2.10%) Navisworks
2 3 (2.10%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.70%) DaVinci Resolve
3 1 (0.70%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.70%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (0.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.75%) AWS
2 57 (39.86%) Azure
3 39 (27.27%) GCP
4 21 (14.69%) SaaS
5 14 (9.79%) IaaS
5 14 (9.79%) PaaS
6 11 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 11 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (7.69%) Serverless
7 10 (6.99%) GitHub
8 8 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.20%) Power Platform
11 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.50%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.50%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (2.80%) dbt
13 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.39%) Firewall
2 10 (6.99%) DNS
3 5 (3.50%) SAN
4 4 (2.80%) iSCSI
5 3 (2.10%) HTTP
5 3 (2.10%) Network Security
5 3 (2.10%) VPN
5 3 (2.10%) WAN
6 2 (1.40%) LAN
6 2 (1.40%) NAS
6 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.70%) DHCP
7 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (6.29%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.29%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.59%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.20%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.50%) Power BI
6 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.80%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.80%) MemSQL
6 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.80%) Tableau
7 3 (2.10%) Big Data
7 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.10%) Looker
8 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.40%) MySQL
8 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 13 (9.09%) JIRA
2 11 (7.69%) Git
2 11 (7.69%) GitLab
3 8 (5.59%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.20%) IntelliJ
4 6 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.20%) JUnit
5 5 (3.50%) Postman
6 4 (2.80%) Eclipse
6 4 (2.80%) Selenium
7 2 (1.40%) Vite
7 2 (1.40%) webpack
8 1 (0.70%) ERwin
8 1 (0.70%) MLflow
8 1 (0.70%) MSI
8 1 (0.70%) Snyk
General
1 58 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.78%) Finance
3 32 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.39%) Banking
5 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.20%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.50%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.50%) Marketing
7 5 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Retail
10 2 (1.40%) Legal
10 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.70%) Back Office
11 1 (0.70%) Electronics
11 1 (0.70%) French Language
11 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Local Government
11 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (23.78%) Architect
2 22 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 20 (13.99%) Developer
4 14 (9.79%) Senior
5 10 (6.99%) Lead
6 9 (6.29%) Administrator
6 9 (6.29%) Analyst
6 9 (6.29%) Data Engineer
7 7 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (4.20%) Java Developer
8 6 (4.20%) Python Developer
8 6 (4.20%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.50%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.50%) Consultant
9 5 (3.50%) Security Architect
9 5 (3.50%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (3.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.39%) REST
2 11 (7.69%) Middleware
3 8 (5.59%) Kafka
3 8 (5.59%) XML
4 7 (4.90%) SOAP
5 6 (4.20%) RESTful
5 6 (4.20%) Spring
6 5 (3.50%) J2EE
6 5 (3.50%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.50%) Swagger
6 5 (3.50%) Web Services
7 4 (2.80%) EJB
7 4 (2.80%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.80%) HTML
7 4 (2.80%) HTML5
7 4 (2.80%) J2SE
7 4 (2.80%) JSON
7 4 (2.80%) Play Framework
8 3 (2.10%) Node.js
8 3 (2.10%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.90%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.80%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.40%) PKI
8 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.79%) Linux
2 12 (8.39%) Windows
3 8 (5.59%) Unix
4 6 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.80%) CentOS
5 4 (2.80%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.40%) Android
6 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.06%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (30.07%) Agile
2 43 (30.07%) DevOps
3 29 (20.28%) CI/CD
4 27 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (17.48%) Containerisation
6 21 (14.69%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (14.69%) Microservices
7 19 (13.29%) Computer Science
8 16 (11.19%) Migration
8 16 (11.19%) Scrum
8 16 (11.19%) Visualisation
9 15 (10.49%) Cloud Security
9 15 (10.49%) Data Modelling
10 13 (9.09%) Data Science
10 13 (9.09%) ETL
10 13 (9.09%) SDLC
11 11 (7.69%) Analytics
11 11 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.27%) Python
2 30 (20.98%) SQL
3 27 (18.88%) Java
4 11 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 10 (6.99%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.90%) Scala
7 6 (4.20%) Bash
8 4 (2.80%) Bicep
8 4 (2.80%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.10%) Go
10 2 (1.40%) ABAP
10 2 (1.40%) C#
10 2 (1.40%) Ruby
10 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.70%) C++
11 1 (0.70%) LookML
11 1 (0.70%) R
11 1 (0.70%) VB
11 1 (0.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (18.18%) Degree
2 16 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 8 (5.59%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.50%) CISSP
8 5 (3.50%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.80%) CESG Certified Professional
9 4 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.40%) MCITP
12 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.89%) GDPR
2 15 (10.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (6.99%) Data Quality
4 8 (5.59%) PCI DSS
5 7 (4.90%) SLA
6 6 (4.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (3.50%) QA
8 4 (2.80%) ISO 19650
8 4 (2.80%) NIST
8 4 (2.80%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (14.69%) Docker
2 11 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.20%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (16.78%) Terraform
2 22 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.09%) Ansible
4 10 (6.99%) Puppet
5 6 (4.20%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.80%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.80%) Salt
8 2 (1.40%) SCOM
8 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.70%) Nessus
9 1 (0.70%) SCCM
9 1 (0.70%) vRealize
9 1 (0.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.69%) Google
3 8 (5.59%) Oracle
3 8 (5.59%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.59%) VMware
4 4 (2.80%) Autodesk
4 4 (2.80%) Databricks
4 4 (2.80%) webMethods
5 3 (2.10%) NetApp
5 3 (2.10%) SAP
6 2 (1.40%) Apple
6 2 (1.40%) HP
6 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.40%) Splunk
7 1 (0.70%) Adobe
7 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.70%) iManage
7 1 (0.70%) Informatica
7 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.70%) Workday