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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 364 308
Rank change year-on-year -198 -56 -12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 66 156 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.57% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 1.51% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 100 159
10th Percentile £240 £348 £312
25th Percentile £419 £448 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +1.69%
75th Percentile £700 £672 £675
90th Percentile £765 £764 £753
UK median daily rate £550 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +6.02% -13.54% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.70
25th Percentile - - £17.38
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £24.38
90th Percentile - - £27.30
UK median hourly rate - - £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 15,851 10,315 11,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,583 6,980 8,216
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 269 265
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +30.58% +23.18% -36.21%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -129 30 £552 -5.64% 83
South West -27 13 £438 -2.78% 13
North of England -88 9 £413 -13.16% 29
Midlands -53 8 £750 +75.95% 18
West Midlands -47 7 £750 - 10
North West -50 7 £325 -28.57% 17
East of England -33 3 £550 +120.00% 13
Yorkshire -52 2 £525 -1.18% 7
East Midlands -22 1 £550 +29.03% 8
South East -92 1 £248 -41.86% 30
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 (9.09%) ArcGIS
2 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.03%) Confluence
4 1 (1.52%) CMS
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.03%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.03%) Fidessa
2 2 (3.03%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (1.52%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 38 (57.58%) Azure
2 22 (33.33%) AWS
3 13 (19.70%) GCP
4 12 (18.18%) GitHub
5 11 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (12.12%) Serverless
7 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.06%) SaaS
9 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Stack
10 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.03%) Google Workspace
10 2 (3.03%) Mimecast
10 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.52%) DNS
2 1 (1.52%) Internet
2 1 (1.52%) NX-OS
2 1 (1.52%) SAN
2 1 (1.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) GIS
1 7 (10.61%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.09%) Power BI
3 3 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (3.03%) QGIS
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) Looker
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.52%) QlikView
5 1 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Git
1 6 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.03%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Toad
4 1 (1.52%) AdminStudio
4 1 (1.52%) InstallShield
General
1 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Finance
3 13 (19.70%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.06%) Billing
5 4 (6.06%) Marketing
5 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.55%) Legal
6 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Advertising
7 2 (3.03%) Back Office
7 2 (3.03%) Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (15.15%) Architect
1 10 (15.15%) Consultant
2 9 (13.64%) Lead
3 7 (10.61%) Azure Consultant
3 7 (10.61%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Consultant
4 5 (7.58%) Analyst
4 5 (7.58%) Senior
5 4 (6.06%) Data Science Leader
5 4 (6.06%) Data Science Manager
5 4 (6.06%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Architect
6 3 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Data Manager
6 3 (4.55%) Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Project Leader
6 3 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) React
2 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.55%) Backbone.js
2 3 (4.55%) Redux
2 3 (4.55%) Vue
3 2 (3.03%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (3.03%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.03%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (3.03%) Next.js
3 2 (3.03%) Node.js
3 2 (3.03%) YAML
4 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.52%) NestJS
4 1 (1.52%) OpenID
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) SAML
4 1 (1.52%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.58%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.06%) TM Forum
4 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.55%) FMCG
4 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.03%) Grid Computing
5 2 (3.03%) IoT
5 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Replication
6 1 (1.52%) SCADA
6 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Linux
3 2 (3.03%) Solaris
3 2 (3.03%) Unix
3 2 (3.03%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.52%) AIX
4 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.52%) SUSE
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) AI
2 19 (28.79%) Agile
3 15 (22.73%) Machine Learning
4 13 (19.70%) Change Management
5 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (16.67%) Project Management
7 10 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (15.15%) Data Science
7 10 (15.15%) DevOps
7 10 (15.15%) Microservices
7 10 (15.15%) Migration
7 10 (15.15%) Roadmaps
7 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (13.64%) Data Analysis
8 9 (13.64%) Generative AI
9 8 (12.12%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.12%) Data Modelling
9 8 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (10.61%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) Python
2 12 (18.18%) SQL
3 6 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.58%) Bash
5 3 (4.55%) Java
5 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.03%) Bicep
6 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.52%) LookML
7 1 (1.52%) Perl
7 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.18%) Degree
3 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.03%) City & Guilds
6 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.03%) NVQ Level 3
6 2 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.52%) CCNA
7 1 (1.52%) CCSK
7 1 (1.52%) CISSP
7 1 (1.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (3.03%) NIST
2 2 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) NCSC
3 1 (1.52%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.61%) Terraform
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.55%) SCCM
4 2 (3.03%) Ansible
4 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.03%) Puppet
5 1 (1.52%) CASB
5 1 (1.52%) Grafana
5 1 (1.52%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.52%) Opsview
5 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) Google
3 7 (10.61%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle
4 4 (6.06%) SAP
5 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.03%) Charles River
5 2 (3.03%) Databricks
5 2 (3.03%) Eze Software Group
5 2 (3.03%) FactSet
5 2 (3.03%) SimCorp
5 2 (3.03%) Sophos
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco
6 1 (1.52%) Dell
6 1 (1.52%) IBM
6 1 (1.52%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.52%) Tenable
6 1 (1.52%) Veeam