Cloud Computing Contracts in England

Cloud Computing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 324 440
Rank change year-on-year -4 +116 -113
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 226 365 382
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.74% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 2.03% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 266 219
10th Percentile £354 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -32.69% +33.33%
75th Percentile £36.63 £19.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £67.45 £37.80 -
UK median hourly rate £18.75 £18.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +2.74% -17.05% +12.82%

All Cloud Skills
England

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,742 17,981 26,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.93% 36.55% 38.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,473 13,174 19,938
10th Percentile £300 £325 £332
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 304 346
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.28
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -
75th Percentile £33.25 £65.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +17 125 £600 +3.90% 98
North of England +34 30 £450 -21.74% 31
South West -14 30 £650 +4.00% 18
North West +24 17 £450 -21.74% 12
South East +7 15 £300 -44.95% 26
Yorkshire +26 10 £450 -37.93% 14
East of England +6 9 £575 -1.29% 7
North East - 3 - - 5
Midlands +8 1 - - 15
West Midlands +2 1 - - 5
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 8 (3.54%) Apache
1 8 (3.54%) Confluence
2 5 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.33%) CMS
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.21%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.77%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Endur
2 5 (2.21%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 93 (41.15%) Azure
2 83 (36.73%) AWS
3 59 (26.11%) PaaS
4 57 (25.22%) IaaS
5 54 (23.89%) SaaS
6 45 (19.91%) GCP
7 13 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (5.75%) Serverless
8 12 (5.31%) Nutanix
9 11 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.98%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.54%) Rubrik
12 7 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.10%) GitHub
12 7 (3.10%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.65%) Azure Storage
14 5 (2.21%) Amazon S3
14 5 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.21%) Twilio
15 4 (1.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.70%) WAN
2 38 (16.81%) LAN
3 22 (9.73%) Firewall
4 19 (8.41%) DNS
5 15 (6.64%) TCP/IP
6 14 (6.19%) VPN
7 11 (4.87%) NAS
7 11 (4.87%) SAN
8 10 (4.42%) DHCP
9 8 (3.54%) Kerberos
9 8 (3.54%) Network Security
9 8 (3.54%) VLAN
10 7 (3.10%) Internet
11 6 (2.65%) InfiniBand
11 6 (2.65%) VoIP
12 5 (2.21%) CTI
12 5 (2.21%) IPsec
12 5 (2.21%) SSH
12 5 (2.21%) WLAN
13 4 (1.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.75%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.87%) MySQL
2 11 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.98%) Big Data
4 9 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.21%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.21%) Bigtable
8 5 (2.21%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.21%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.21%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.77%) Cloud Spanner
10 3 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.33%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.88%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 20 (8.85%) Git
2 14 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.42%) JIRA
4 9 (3.98%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.21%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.77%) JMeter
7 3 (1.33%) GitLab
7 3 (1.33%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.33%) NeoLoad
7 3 (1.33%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.88%) webpack
9 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.44%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.44%) JUnit
9 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 56 (24.78%) Finance
2 52 (23.01%) Public Sector
3 45 (19.91%) Social Skills
4 34 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.73%) Manufacturing
6 16 (7.08%) Telecoms
7 14 (6.19%) Banking
8 13 (5.75%) Marketing
9 11 (4.87%) Electronics
10 9 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (3.10%) Law
12 6 (2.65%) Retail
13 5 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.33%) Legal
15 3 (1.33%) Mandarin Language
16 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 1 (0.44%) Automotive
17 1 (0.44%) Games
17 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (29.65%) Architect
2 28 (12.39%) Network Architect
3 20 (8.85%) Analyst
4 19 (8.41%) Senior
4 19 (8.41%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (5.31%) Consultant
6 12 (5.31%) Developer
6 12 (5.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (5.31%) Support Engineer
7 11 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.42%) Network Engineer
9 8 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (3.54%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.10%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (2.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.65%) Lead
11 6 (2.65%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.21%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.75%) React
2 12 (5.31%) LDAP
3 10 (4.42%) HTML
3 10 (4.42%) Middleware
3 10 (4.42%) RESTful
4 8 (3.54%) .NET
5 7 (3.10%) Kafka
6 6 (2.65%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.65%) Web Services
7 5 (2.21%) JSON
7 5 (2.21%) Node.js
7 5 (2.21%) PyTorch
7 5 (2.21%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.77%) Hugging Face
8 4 (1.77%) LangChain
9 3 (1.33%) CSS
9 3 (1.33%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.33%) IDoc
9 3 (1.33%) Next.js
9 3 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.49%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.42%) Clustering
2 10 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.42%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.98%) IoT
4 8 (3.54%) Replication
5 7 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.10%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.10%) Robotics
6 5 (2.21%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.21%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (2.21%) IVR
6 5 (2.21%) PKI
6 5 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.77%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.83%) Windows
2 26 (11.50%) Linux
3 18 (7.96%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.98%) Unix
6 8 (3.54%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (3.54%) Solaris
7 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.77%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.88%) CentOS
9 2 (0.88%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (23.89%) DevOps
2 53 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (23.01%) Agile
4 38 (16.81%) Business Strategy
5 36 (15.93%) Open Source
6 33 (14.60%) Computer Science
7 31 (13.72%) Artificial Intelligence
8 30 (13.27%) CI/CD
9 29 (12.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (12.39%) Network Management
11 27 (11.95%) Zero Trust
12 25 (11.06%) Migration
13 22 (9.73%) Machine Learning
14 21 (9.29%) Change Management
15 19 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 18 (7.96%) Analytics
16 18 (7.96%) High Availability
16 18 (7.96%) Microservices
16 18 (7.96%) Roadmaps
17 17 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.80%) SQL
2 46 (20.35%) Python
3 31 (13.72%) Java
4 28 (12.39%) PowerShell
5 18 (7.96%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.64%) C#
6 15 (6.64%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.19%) Bash
8 8 (3.54%) C
9 6 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.21%) ABAP
11 4 (1.77%) Go
11 4 (1.77%) Scala
12 3 (1.33%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) Bicep
13 2 (0.88%) Clojure
13 2 (0.88%) Haskell
13 2 (0.88%) Perl
13 2 (0.88%) Rust
13 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 38 (16.81%) Degree
3 32 (14.16%) DV Cleared
4 22 (9.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (8.41%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.54%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.21%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.33%) CCIE
11 3 (1.33%) CCNA
11 3 (1.33%) CCNP
12 2 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.88%) CITP
12 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.88%) MCP
12 2 (0.88%) MCSE
12 2 (0.88%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.19%) GDPR
2 10 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.77%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.77%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.77%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.33%) SLA
8 2 (0.88%) COBIT
8 2 (0.88%) QA
9 1 (0.44%) EMIR
9 1 (0.44%) FATCA
9 1 (0.44%) MiFID
9 1 (0.44%) NCSC
9 1 (0.44%) PMO
9 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (9.73%) Active Directory
2 21 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.96%) Docker
4 11 (4.87%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.21%) vSphere
7 4 (1.77%) NFS
8 2 (0.88%) HDFS
8 2 (0.88%) KVM
8 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.44%) Firmware
9 1 (0.44%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 30 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.73%) Terraform
3 17 (7.52%) Ansible
4 8 (3.54%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.54%) Netcool
4 8 (3.54%) Tivoli
4 8 (3.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (2.65%) Grafana
6 5 (2.21%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.21%) SCCM
7 4 (1.77%) Kibana
8 2 (0.88%) Puppet
8 2 (0.88%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.44%) yum
9 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.95%) Google
2 27 (11.95%) Oracle
3 23 (10.18%) VMware
4 22 (9.73%) Cisco
5 19 (8.41%) SAP
6 14 (6.19%) ServiceNow
7 12 (5.31%) Splunk
8 9 (3.98%) Dell
8 9 (3.98%) HP
8 9 (3.98%) IBM
9 8 (3.54%) CyberArk
9 8 (3.54%) EMC
9 8 (3.54%) Isilon
9 8 (3.54%) Qualys
9 8 (3.54%) Serena
10 5 (2.21%) Citrix
10 5 (2.21%) Foundry
10 5 (2.21%) Palantir
10 5 (2.21%) Triple Point