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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 294 326
Rank change year-on-year -183 +32 +18
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 104 197 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.80% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.73% 2.14% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 121 153
10th Percentile £359 £383 £321
25th Percentile £423 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £578 £725 £675
90th Percentile £675 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.36% -8.33% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £40.88 £19.85 £16.55
25th Percentile £45.59 £21.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.27% +37.84% -1.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.13 £53.63
90th Percentile - £26.35 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £25.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +86.27% +37.84% -2.63%

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 14,185 9,204 11,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.93% 37.58% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,778 6,458 8,560
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 191 315
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £44.31 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +67.19% +27.59% -25.37%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.49 £32.63
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.63 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.09% +31.67% -33.17%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -122 46 £613 -2.00% 47
Midlands -53 23 £550 +49.86% 15
East Midlands -19 19 £550 +49.86% 4
South East -44 13 £500 +11.11% 21
North of England -93 11 £450 -3.43% 20
North West -50 7 £325 -29.73% 9
East of England -28 6 £413 -45.07% 7
West Midlands -59 4 £429 - 11
North East -14 3 £450 +25.70% 5
South West -30 2 £375 -31.82% 14
Yorkshire -68 1 £525 -12.50% 6
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 4 (3.85%) Apache
1 4 (3.85%) JBoss
1 4 (3.85%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.88%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.88%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.88%) Fidessa
1 3 (2.88%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (36.54%) AWS
2 35 (33.65%) Azure
3 19 (18.27%) Google Workspace
4 18 (17.31%) Google Sheets
5 14 (13.46%) GitHub
6 11 (10.58%) GCP
7 9 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (3.85%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.85%) PaaS
12 3 (2.88%) IBM Watson
12 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.42%) Firewall
2 9 (8.65%) Network Security
3 5 (4.81%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.92%) BGP
5 2 (1.92%) NGFW
5 2 (1.92%) OSPF
5 2 (1.92%) Wireless
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.96%) DMZ
6 1 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.96%) LAN
6 1 (0.96%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.96%) VLAN
6 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Power BI
2 6 (5.77%) Tableau
3 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.88%) Big Data
5 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.88%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.92%) Metadata
6 2 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.92%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.96%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.65%) Git
3 7 (6.73%) GitLab
4 5 (4.81%) JIRA
5 4 (3.85%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.85%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.85%) IntelliJ
5 4 (3.85%) JUnit
5 4 (3.85%) Selenium
6 3 (2.88%) Toad
7 1 (0.96%) AdminStudio
7 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.96%) Gatling
7 1 (0.96%) Gradle
7 1 (0.96%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.96%) Postman
General
1 47 (45.19%) Social Skills
2 39 (37.50%) Finance
3 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Retail
8 2 (1.92%) Back Office
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Electronics
9 1 (0.96%) Front Office
9 1 (0.96%) German Language
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (12.50%) Programme Manager
2 10 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (9.62%) Lead
2 10 (9.62%) Senior
3 8 (7.69%) Analyst
4 7 (6.73%) Software Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Architect
8 3 (2.88%) Consultant
8 3 (2.88%) Data Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Data Scientist
8 3 (2.88%) Site Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) JSON
1 10 (9.62%) XML
1 10 (9.62%) YAML
2 8 (7.69%) REST
3 5 (4.81%) Spring
4 4 (3.85%) EJB
4 4 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.85%) Hibernate
4 4 (3.85%) HTML
4 4 (3.85%) HTML5
4 4 (3.85%) J2EE
4 4 (3.85%) J2SE
4 4 (3.85%) NumPy
4 4 (3.85%) Pandas
4 4 (3.85%) Play Framework
4 4 (3.85%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.85%) SOAP
5 3 (2.88%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.88%) PySpark
5 3 (2.88%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.81%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.81%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.85%) Grid Computing
5 3 (2.88%) FMCG
5 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.88%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.92%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.92%) IoT
7 1 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.96%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.42%) Linux
2 6 (5.77%) Windows
3 4 (3.85%) Unix
3 4 (3.85%) VMS
4 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.62%) DevOps
2 34 (32.69%) Migration
3 27 (25.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (22.12%) Agile
4 23 (22.12%) CI/CD
4 23 (22.12%) Data Analysis
5 22 (21.15%) Change Management
6 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (19.23%) Data Transformation
7 20 (19.23%) Regulatory Compliance
7 20 (19.23%) Risk Management
7 20 (19.23%) User Experience
8 18 (17.31%) Dashboard Development
8 18 (17.31%) Programme Management
8 18 (17.31%) Quantitative Analysis
8 18 (17.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (17.31%) Technology Transformation
9 16 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.54%) SQL
2 28 (26.92%) Python
3 10 (9.62%) Java
4 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.73%) Scala
5 6 (5.77%) Bash
6 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.88%) C#
8 2 (1.92%) Bicep
8 2 (1.92%) R
9 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (27.88%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.08%) Degree
2 24 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.81%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.96%) CISM
6 1 (0.96%) CISSP
6 1 (0.96%) OCP
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.96%) PhD
6 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.62%) GDPR
2 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.85%) NCSC
4 3 (2.88%) NIST
5 2 (1.92%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.96%) GRC
6 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.96%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 13 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.88%) GPFS
3 3 (2.88%) Lustre
3 3 (2.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 3 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (16.35%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.38%) Terraform
3 6 (5.77%) Ansible
3 6 (5.77%) Puppet
4 5 (4.81%) Grafana
4 5 (4.81%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.85%) Sysdig
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.92%) SCCM
7 1 (0.96%) CASB
7 1 (0.96%) Podman
7 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (28.85%) Google
2 24 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.77%) Databricks
3 6 (5.77%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.85%) webMethods
5 3 (2.88%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.88%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (2.88%) Cognos
5 3 (2.88%) Eze Software Group
5 3 (2.88%) FactSet
5 3 (2.88%) IBM
5 3 (2.88%) Oracle
5 3 (2.88%) Sage
5 3 (2.88%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.92%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.92%) Foundry
6 2 (1.92%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.92%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.92%) SAP
106 Cloud Computing jobs in England