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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 298 295
Rank change year-on-year -105 -3 +89
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 150 220 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.71% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.98% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 130 184
10th Percentile £396 £312 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £597
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -6.83% +3.83%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £863 £782 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £19.10 - £16.25
25th Percentile £24.88 £27.75 £16.81
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.82% +50.00% -43.28%
75th Percentile £41.56 £29.25 £25.50
90th Percentile £42.79 - £27.88
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +64.44% +18.42% -45.71%

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 11,702 11,108 13,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.74% 35.80% 35.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,951 7,384 10,124
10th Percentile £303 £313 £298
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 142 283
10th Percentile £15.20 £19.35 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +45.45%
75th Percentile £43.84 £60.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.51 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.47 £32.30
% change year-on-year -27.03% +6.70% +47.56%

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 13 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 -50 69 £590 -5.60% 104
South East +7 27 £500 +25.00% 43
Midlands -33 18 £451 -9.90% 10
East of England - 14 £413 - 19
West Midlands -30 13 £435 -19.07% 10
North of England -60 11 £450 -0.88% 25
North West -27 8 £433 +19.31% 18
South West -6 7 £425 -38.18% 4
East Midlands -6 5 £460 +29.21%
Yorkshire -50 2 £513 +5.67% 5
North East -10 1 £450 -0.88% 2
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 10 (6.67%) JBoss
2 8 (5.33%) Apache
2 8 (5.33%) OpenStack
2 8 (5.33%) WebLogic
3 5 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.67%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.33%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.33%) Revit
1 5 (3.33%) Weka
2 4 (2.67%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.00%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.67%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.67%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (0.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 90 (60.00%) AWS
2 60 (40.00%) Azure
3 38 (25.33%) GCP
4 18 (12.00%) GitHub
5 14 (9.33%) SaaS
5 14 (9.33%) Serverless
6 12 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (7.33%) Amazon S3
7 11 (7.33%) Power Platform
8 10 (6.67%) IaaS
8 10 (6.67%) PaaS
9 9 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.67%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (4.67%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (4.67%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (3.33%) dbt
14 4 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.67%) Firewall
2 6 (4.00%) DNS
2 6 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.00%) iSCSI
3 3 (2.00%) LAN
3 3 (2.00%) Network Security
3 3 (2.00%) SAN
3 3 (2.00%) WAN
3 3 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.67%) HTTP
4 1 (0.67%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.67%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 11 (7.33%) Power BI
5 9 (6.00%) Tableau
6 7 (4.67%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.67%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.67%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.67%) MemSQL
9 3 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.00%) Looker
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.33%) Big Data
10 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.33%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.33%) Metadata
10 2 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (14.67%) Git
2 17 (11.33%) GitLab
3 14 (9.33%) JIRA
4 10 (6.67%) IntelliJ
4 10 (6.67%) JUnit
5 9 (6.00%) Jenkins
6 8 (5.33%) Eclipse
6 8 (5.33%) Selenium
7 7 (4.67%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.33%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.33%) Postman
9 2 (1.33%) Vite
9 2 (1.33%) webpack
10 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.67%) Gatling
10 1 (0.67%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.67%) Gradle
10 1 (0.67%) MLflow
10 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (47.33%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (19.33%) Finance
4 9 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.33%) Banking
5 8 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.00%) Marketing
7 5 (3.33%) Retail
7 5 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.67%) Military
9 2 (1.33%) Electronics
10 1 (0.67%) French Language
10 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.67%) German Language
10 1 (0.67%) Local Government
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (18.00%) Architect
2 23 (15.33%) Developer
3 16 (10.67%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (9.33%) Senior
5 10 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 10 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 9 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (6.00%) Lead
7 7 (4.67%) Administrator
7 7 (4.67%) Consultant
7 7 (4.67%) Java Developer
7 7 (4.67%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (3.33%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.33%) Technical Leader
10 4 (2.67%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.33%) REST
2 11 (7.33%) Spring
3 9 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (6.00%) J2EE
3 9 (6.00%) SOAP
3 9 (6.00%) XML
4 8 (5.33%) EJB
4 8 (5.33%) Hibernate
4 8 (5.33%) HTML
4 8 (5.33%) HTML5
4 8 (5.33%) J2SE
4 8 (5.33%) JSON
4 8 (5.33%) Kafka
4 8 (5.33%) Play Framework
5 7 (4.67%) Middleware
5 7 (4.67%) Web Services
6 6 (4.00%) ARM Templates
6 6 (4.00%) RESTful
7 5 (3.33%) NumPy
7 5 (3.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.00%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.33%) Grid Computing
3 5 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.33%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.33%) Linux
2 10 (6.67%) Unix
2 10 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (2.00%) CentOS
3 3 (2.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.33%) Android
4 2 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (39.33%) DevOps
2 53 (35.33%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (34.67%) Agile
4 43 (28.67%) CI/CD
5 33 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (18.00%) Microservices
7 21 (14.00%) Containerisation
7 21 (14.00%) Visualisation
8 19 (12.67%) Analytics
8 19 (12.67%) Migration
9 18 (12.00%) Computer Science
9 18 (12.00%) Data Engineering
9 18 (12.00%) Data Modelling
9 18 (12.00%) Data Science
10 17 (11.33%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (11.33%) Scrum
11 16 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (10.00%) Mentoring
13 14 (9.33%) Data Management
13 14 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.67%) Python
2 39 (26.00%) SQL
3 28 (18.67%) Java
4 15 (10.00%) Bash
5 14 (9.33%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.00%) Scala
7 8 (5.33%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.00%) Bicep
9 3 (2.00%) C++
9 3 (2.00%) Go
9 3 (2.00%) Ruby
10 2 (1.33%) C
10 2 (1.33%) Fortran
11 1 (0.67%) LookML
11 1 (0.67%) Perl
11 1 (0.67%) R
11 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (18.00%) Degree
2 22 (14.67%) Security Cleared
3 20 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.33%) Master's Degree
5 10 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.67%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.67%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.67%) OCP
8 4 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (2.67%) PhD
9 3 (2.00%) PgMP
9 3 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.00%) PMP
10 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.33%) MCITP
10 2 (1.33%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.33%) GDPR
2 11 (7.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.00%) QA
5 5 (3.33%) ISO 19650
5 5 (3.33%) SLA
6 4 (2.67%) NIST
7 3 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (2.00%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.33%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 31 (20.67%) Docker
2 8 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.33%) GPFS
4 5 (3.33%) Lustre
4 5 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 34 (22.67%) Terraform
3 13 (8.67%) Puppet
4 11 (7.33%) Ansible
4 11 (7.33%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.67%) Grafana
5 7 (4.67%) Sysdig
6 4 (2.67%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.00%) Salt
8 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.33%) SCOM
8 2 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.67%) Consul
9 1 (0.67%) vRealize
9 1 (0.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (14.67%) Google
2 20 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.33%) webMethods
4 6 (4.00%) NetApp
4 6 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.33%) Autodesk
5 5 (3.33%) Oracle
5 5 (3.33%) VMware
6 4 (2.67%) Databricks
6 4 (2.67%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.00%) Samsung
8 2 (1.33%) Apple
8 2 (1.33%) HP
8 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.33%) Splunk
9 1 (0.67%) Adobe
9 1 (0.67%) Cognos
9 1 (0.67%) Sage
9 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.67%) SAP