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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 321 298
Rank change year-on-year -56 -23 +99
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 141 217 331
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.92% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 130 215
10th Percentile £389 £312 £380
25th Percentile £429 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £706
90th Percentile £863 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £19.43 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £20.81 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.50 £23.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.74% +25.00% -70.77%
75th Percentile £15.75 £26.81 £23.50
90th Percentile - £28.28 £27.80
UK median hourly rate £15.50 £20.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year -25.30% +9.21% -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 10,930 11,274 14,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.69% 35.32% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,377 7,503 10,716
10th Percentile £304 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 158 297
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.21 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%
75th Percentile £43.18 £68.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.03 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +43.64%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 -23 69 £575 -6.12% 87
South East +8 23 £500 +25.00% 50
Midlands -15 14 £476 -4.80% 13
North of England -55 12 £488 +7.38% 17
East of England - 12 £331 - 11
West Midlands -22 9 £500 -6.98% 12
North West -16 8 £480 +32.41% 6
South West +8 7 £425 -41.38% 6
East Midlands -5 5 £460 +29.21% 1
North East -4 2 £463 +1.87% 7
Yorkshire -44 2 £513 +7.89% 5
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 7 (4.96%) OpenStack
2 6 (4.26%) JBoss
3 5 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.84%) Apache
4 4 (2.84%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.13%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.42%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.71%) Confluence
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Revit
2 4 (2.84%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.13%) ProjectWise
4 2 (1.42%) Weka
5 1 (0.71%) DaVinci Resolve
5 1 (0.71%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.71%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (58.16%) AWS
2 54 (38.30%) Azure
3 37 (26.24%) GCP
4 15 (10.64%) GitHub
4 15 (10.64%) SaaS
4 15 (10.64%) Serverless
5 13 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (8.51%) Amazon S3
7 10 (7.09%) IaaS
7 10 (7.09%) PaaS
8 8 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.67%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.26%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.55%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (3.55%) dbt
12 4 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.38%) DNS
2 8 (5.67%) Firewall
3 4 (2.84%) iSCSI
3 4 (2.84%) SAN
4 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.42%) LAN
5 2 (1.42%) Network Security
5 2 (1.42%) WAN
5 2 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.71%) HTTP
6 1 (0.71%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.71%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.67%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.67%) Power BI
3 7 (4.96%) Tableau
4 6 (4.26%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.55%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.84%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.84%) MemSQL
7 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.13%) Looker
8 2 (1.42%) Big Data
8 2 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.42%) MySQL
8 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (12.77%) JIRA
2 16 (11.35%) GitLab
3 15 (10.64%) Git
4 8 (5.67%) TeamCity
5 7 (4.96%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.26%) IntelliJ
6 6 (4.26%) JUnit
7 4 (2.84%) Eclipse
7 4 (2.84%) Selenium
8 3 (2.13%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.13%) Postman
9 2 (1.42%) Vite
9 2 (1.42%) webpack
10 1 (0.71%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.71%) MLflow
10 1 (0.71%) MSI
10 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (46.10%) Social Skills
2 35 (24.82%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.86%) Finance
4 10 (7.09%) Banking
5 9 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.55%) Marketing
7 5 (3.55%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.84%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.84%) Military
9 3 (2.13%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) French Language
10 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.71%) German Language
10 1 (0.71%) Local Government
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (21.99%) Architect
2 20 (14.18%) Developer
2 20 (14.18%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (8.51%) Senior
4 9 (6.38%) Data Engineer
4 9 (6.38%) Python Developer
5 8 (5.67%) Administrator
5 8 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (5.67%) Lead
6 7 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Analyst
7 6 (4.26%) Consultant
7 6 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.55%) AWS Developer
8 5 (3.55%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Senior Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.55%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (3.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.51%) REST
2 8 (5.67%) Middleware
3 7 (4.96%) Kafka
3 7 (4.96%) Web Services
4 6 (4.26%) ARM Templates
4 6 (4.26%) RESTful
4 6 (4.26%) Spring
5 5 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.55%) J2EE
5 5 (3.55%) SOAP
5 5 (3.55%) XML
6 4 (2.84%) EJB
6 4 (2.84%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.84%) HTML
6 4 (2.84%) HTML5
6 4 (2.84%) J2SE
6 4 (2.84%) JSON
6 4 (2.84%) Play Framework
7 3 (2.13%) NumPy
7 3 (2.13%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.96%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.55%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.42%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.42%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.77%) Linux
2 11 (7.80%) Windows
3 8 (5.67%) Unix
4 4 (2.84%) CentOS
4 4 (2.84%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.42%) Android
6 2 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.88%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (35.46%) Agile
3 47 (33.33%) DevOps
4 34 (24.11%) CI/CD
5 31 (21.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (17.73%) Containerisation
7 24 (17.02%) Microservices
8 19 (13.48%) Computer Science
8 19 (13.48%) Visualisation
9 18 (12.77%) Migration
10 17 (12.06%) Data Science
10 17 (12.06%) Scrum
11 15 (10.64%) AI
11 15 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (10.64%) Data Engineering
11 15 (10.64%) Data Modelling
12 14 (9.93%) Analytics
12 14 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (9.93%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (9.93%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 57 (40.43%) Python
2 31 (21.99%) SQL
3 24 (17.02%) Java
4 12 (8.51%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.80%) Bash
5 11 (7.80%) Shell Script
6 7 (4.96%) Scala
7 4 (2.84%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.13%) Bicep
8 3 (2.13%) C++
8 3 (2.13%) Go
8 3 (2.13%) Ruby
9 2 (1.42%) C
9 2 (1.42%) Fortran
10 1 (0.71%) C#
10 1 (0.71%) LookML
10 1 (0.71%) Perl
10 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.71%) VB
10 1 (0.71%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (19.86%) Degree
2 21 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 19 (13.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.38%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.13%) OCP
7 3 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.13%) PgMP
7 3 (2.13%) PhD
7 3 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.13%) PMP
8 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.42%) MCITP
8 2 (1.42%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.93%) GDPR
2 9 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (5.67%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (4.26%) QA
5 5 (3.55%) ISO 19650
5 5 (3.55%) SLA
6 3 (2.13%) NIST
6 3 (2.13%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.42%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (15.60%) Docker
2 8 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.55%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.42%) GPFS
5 2 (1.42%) Lustre
5 2 (1.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (21.99%) Terraform
2 27 (19.15%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.93%) Ansible
4 11 (7.80%) Puppet
5 7 (4.96%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.26%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.55%) Salt
8 3 (2.13%) Grafana
8 3 (2.13%) Sysdig
9 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.42%) SCOM
9 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.71%) Consul
10 1 (0.71%) SCCM
10 1 (0.71%) vRealize
10 1 (0.71%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (14.89%) Google
2 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.96%) VMware
5 6 (4.26%) NetApp
6 5 (3.55%) Autodesk
6 5 (3.55%) Oracle
7 4 (2.84%) webMethods
8 3 (2.13%) Databricks
8 3 (2.13%) Dataiku
8 3 (2.13%) Samsung
9 2 (1.42%) Apple
9 2 (1.42%) HP
9 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.42%) Splunk
10 1 (0.71%) Adobe
10 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.71%) Informatica
10 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.71%) SAP