Cloud Computing Contracts in England

Cloud Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 311 325
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +110
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 176 235 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.64% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 2.01% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 164 263
10th Percentile £358 £350 £425
25th Percentile £454 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% +4.30% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £19.85 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £21.88 £17.38 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £18.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% +7.14% -32.69%
75th Percentile £26.13 £36.63 £19.50
90th Percentile £26.35 £67.45 £37.80
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £18.75 £18.25
% change year-on-year +36.00% +2.74% -17.05%

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 9,097 11,687 17,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.16% 32.07% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,303 8,435 12,866
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £670
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 325 292
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.85 £18.44
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -38.24% +58.14%
75th Percentile £36.75 £35.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.30 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.75% -38.94% +57.73%

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 18 May 2025.

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
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 May 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 +25 103 £625 +4.17% 538
North of England +14 28 £475 - 56
North West +11 16 £466 +3.56% 33
South East +36 11 £450 +79.86% 118
Yorkshire +10 9 £550 +8.48% 18
Midlands +23 8 £367 +6.38% 46
East of England +23 7 £501 -12.96% 47
East Midlands - 7 £367 - 11
South West +14 6 £550 -15.38% 30
North East -5 3 £358 - 5
West Midlands +4 1 - - 33
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 18 (10.23%) Confluence
2 11 (6.25%) Apache
3 7 (3.98%) OpenStack
4 6 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.41%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.84%) NetWeaver
6 4 (2.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.57%) CMS
7 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.57%) JBoss
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.57%) SAS
7 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Maximo
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (36.36%) Azure
2 50 (28.41%) AWS
3 36 (20.45%) GCP
4 21 (11.93%) SaaS
5 19 (10.80%) GitHub
6 16 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 15 (8.52%) IaaS
7 15 (8.52%) PaaS
8 12 (6.82%) Serverless
9 10 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.68%) Slack
10 9 (5.11%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.11%) OCI
11 7 (3.98%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.98%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.41%) Azure AKS
12 6 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.95%) HTTP
2 11 (6.25%) DNS
2 11 (6.25%) Firewall
3 6 (3.41%) Network Security
3 6 (3.41%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.41%) VPN
4 4 (2.27%) DHCP
4 4 (2.27%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.70%) SAN
6 2 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.14%) NAS
6 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.14%) WAN
7 1 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.57%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.57%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.57%) Skype
7 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.57%) Wireless Security
7 1 (0.57%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.66%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.95%) Power BI
4 11 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.68%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (5.68%) MySQL
5 10 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.68%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (5.11%) Oracle ODI
6 9 (5.11%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (5.11%) Tableau
7 8 (4.55%) Big Data
8 6 (3.41%) Flink
9 5 (2.84%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.27%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (17.05%) JIRA
2 20 (11.36%) Git
3 11 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 11 (6.25%) JUnit
4 10 (5.68%) Jasmine
5 9 (5.11%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.55%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.41%) Subversion
8 5 (2.84%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (2.27%) GitLab
10 3 (1.70%) ERwin
10 3 (1.70%) Postman
11 2 (1.14%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.14%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.57%) MLflow
12 1 (0.57%) MSI
12 1 (0.57%) Selenium
12 1 (0.57%) Serena SBM
12 1 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 54 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 52 (29.55%) Finance
3 35 (19.89%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.36%) Banking
5 19 (10.80%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.98%) Legal
7 5 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.84%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.70%) Military
9 3 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.14%) Back Office
10 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Publishing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (17.61%) Architect
2 26 (14.77%) Developer
3 24 (13.64%) Lead
3 24 (13.64%) Senior
4 12 (6.82%) Data Engineer
4 12 (6.82%) Java Developer
5 10 (5.68%) Security Architect
5 10 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.55%) Analyst
6 8 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.55%) Report Writer
6 8 (4.55%) Senior Developer
7 7 (3.98%) Azure Architect
8 6 (3.41%) Administrator
8 6 (3.41%) Business Analyst
9 5 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.84%) SAP Developer
9 5 (2.84%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.52%) RESTful
2 13 (7.39%) OpenAPI
2 13 (7.39%) Spring
2 13 (7.39%) Swagger
3 12 (6.82%) Spring Boot
4 10 (5.68%) REST
4 10 (5.68%) Spring Batch
4 10 (5.68%) Spring Security
5 9 (5.11%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (4.55%) Middleware
7 7 (3.98%) PySpark
8 6 (3.41%) EDI
8 6 (3.41%) SOAP
8 6 (3.41%) XML
9 5 (2.84%) JDBC
9 5 (2.84%) JMS
9 5 (2.84%) Kafka
9 5 (2.84%) React
9 5 (2.84%) SAP PI
9 5 (2.84%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.68%) Cloud Native
1 10 (5.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 9 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.41%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.41%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.84%) Clustering
5 5 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.84%) PKI
5 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.84%) Replication
6 4 (2.27%) Derivative
6 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.27%) IoT
6 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.02%) Linux
2 20 (11.36%) Windows
3 14 (7.95%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.68%) Unix
6 4 (2.27%) Solaris
7 1 (0.57%) CentOS
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
7 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (28.41%) Agile
2 50 (28.41%) DevOps
3 46 (26.14%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.18%) Analytics
5 29 (16.48%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (16.48%) Data Modelling
6 24 (13.64%) Visualisation
7 23 (13.07%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (13.07%) Migration
8 22 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 22 (12.50%) High Availability
8 22 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 21 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (10.80%) Cloud Security
10 19 (10.80%) Computer Science
10 19 (10.80%) Microservices
10 19 (10.80%) Test Automation
11 18 (10.23%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 57 (32.39%) SQL
2 50 (28.41%) Python
3 32 (18.18%) Java
4 21 (11.93%) PowerShell
5 15 (8.52%) Bash
6 9 (5.11%) Bicep
7 8 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.98%) C#
8 7 (3.98%) Scala
9 6 (3.41%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.84%) ABAP
10 5 (2.84%) Haskell
11 4 (2.27%) Groovy
11 4 (2.27%) OCaml
12 3 (1.70%) C++
12 3 (1.70%) Go
12 3 (1.70%) Perl
12 3 (1.70%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.14%) C
Qualifications
1 38 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 30 (17.05%) Degree
4 17 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.41%) CISSP
6 5 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.27%) CESG Certified Professional
7 4 (2.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.14%) CCNA
8 2 (1.14%) CCNP
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.14%) PMP
9 1 (0.57%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.09%) GDPR
3 9 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.41%) QA
5 5 (2.84%) SOC 2
6 4 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.27%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.70%) NIST
7 3 (1.70%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.14%) MISRA
8 2 (1.14%) MISRA C
8 2 (1.14%) NCSC
8 2 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.14%) SLA
9 1 (0.57%) COBIT
9 1 (0.57%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 32 (18.18%) Docker
2 15 (8.52%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.14%) NFS
7 2 (1.14%) Veritas File System
7 2 (1.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.57%) Ceph
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 27 (15.34%) Terraform
3 12 (6.82%) Ansible
4 6 (3.41%) Puppet
5 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.27%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.70%) Control-M
7 3 (1.70%) Netcool
7 3 (1.70%) QRadar
8 2 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.14%) Salt
8 2 (1.14%) SCCM
8 2 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.57%) Nagios
9 1 (0.57%) Nessus
9 1 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.50%) Google
3 20 (11.36%) Oracle
4 12 (6.82%) VMware
5 9 (5.11%) Splunk
6 7 (3.98%) SAP
6 7 (3.98%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.41%) Databricks
7 6 (3.41%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.84%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.84%) IBM
9 4 (2.27%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.27%) Cisco
9 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.27%) iManage
9 4 (2.27%) Qualys
10 3 (1.70%) BMC
10 3 (1.70%) EMC
10 3 (1.70%) Murex
11 2 (1.14%) TIBCO