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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 315 430
Rank change year-on-year -5 +115 -102
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 229 380 397
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.76% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 2.08% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 277 220
10th Percentile £350 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +1.77% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £591 £556 £565
% change year-on-year +6.20% -1.55% +11.33%
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 £18.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -28.85% +38.67%
75th Percentile £36.63 £19.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £67.45 £37.80 -
UK median hourly rate £18.75 £18.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -14.77% +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 11,752 18,288 27,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 36.57% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,494 13,371 20,101
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
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 318 309 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.04
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.52% -4.36%
75th Percentile £32.31 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.72 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +18 129 £600 +3.90% 95
South West -1 31 £650 +4.00% 17
North of England +35 30 £450 -21.74% 30
North West +21 18 £450 -21.74% 12
South East +3 15 £300 -46.99% 29
Yorkshire +25 9 £450 -37.93% 15
East of England +9 9 £575 -2.54% 10
North East - 3 - - 4
West Midlands +10 1 - - 8
Midlands +7 1 - - 19
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 (3.49%) Apache
1 8 (3.49%) Confluence
2 5 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.75%) CMS
4 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
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 (2.18%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.06%) Endur
2 4 (1.75%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.87%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 92 (40.17%) Azure
2 79 (34.50%) AWS
3 59 (25.76%) PaaS
4 57 (24.89%) IaaS
5 55 (24.02%) SaaS
6 41 (17.90%) GCP
7 13 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.24%) Nutanix
8 12 (5.24%) Serverless
9 10 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.93%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.49%) Rubrik
12 7 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.06%) GitHub
13 6 (2.62%) Azure Storage
13 6 (2.62%) ChatGPT
13 6 (2.62%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (1.75%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 4 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (18.34%) WAN
2 40 (17.47%) LAN
3 26 (11.35%) Firewall
4 19 (8.30%) DNS
5 16 (6.99%) VPN
6 15 (6.55%) TCP/IP
7 11 (4.80%) NAS
7 11 (4.80%) SAN
8 10 (4.37%) DHCP
9 8 (3.49%) Internet
9 8 (3.49%) Kerberos
9 8 (3.49%) Network Security
9 8 (3.49%) VLAN
9 8 (3.49%) WLAN
10 7 (3.06%) IPsec
11 6 (2.62%) BGP
11 6 (2.62%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.62%) InfiniBand
11 6 (2.62%) OSPF
11 6 (2.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.68%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.80%) MySQL
2 11 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.49%) Big Data
4 8 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.06%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.18%) Bigtable
7 5 (2.18%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.75%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.75%) Cloud Spanner
8 4 (1.75%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.87%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 19 (8.30%) Git
2 13 (5.68%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.37%) JIRA
4 9 (3.93%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.18%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.75%) JMeter
7 3 (1.31%) GitLab
7 3 (1.31%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.31%) NeoLoad
7 3 (1.31%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.87%) 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 52 (22.71%) Finance
2 51 (22.27%) Public Sector
3 45 (19.65%) Social Skills
4 36 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.17%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.11%) Banking
7 12 (5.24%) Marketing
7 12 (5.24%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.37%) Electronics
9 9 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.49%) Law
11 5 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.31%) Legal
13 3 (1.31%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.31%) Retail
14 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.44%) Automotive
15 1 (0.44%) Games
15 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 63 (27.51%) Architect
2 28 (12.23%) Network Architect
3 23 (10.04%) Senior
4 19 (8.30%) Analyst
5 15 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (5.24%) Consultant
7 12 (5.24%) Developer
7 12 (5.24%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.37%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.06%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (2.62%) Lead
12 6 (2.62%) Network Specialist
12 6 (2.62%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.18%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.68%) React
2 12 (5.24%) LDAP
2 12 (5.24%) RESTful
3 10 (4.37%) HTML
4 8 (3.49%) .NET
5 7 (3.06%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.06%) TensorFlow
6 6 (2.62%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.62%) Hugging Face
6 6 (2.62%) Kafka
6 6 (2.62%) LangChain
7 5 (2.18%) JSON
7 5 (2.18%) Middleware
7 5 (2.18%) Node.js
8 3 (1.31%) CSS
8 3 (1.31%) EDI
8 3 (1.31%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.31%) Next.js
8 3 (1.31%) XML
9 2 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.72%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.80%) IoT
3 10 (4.37%) Clustering
3 10 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.49%) Replication
5 7 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.06%) PKI
5 7 (3.06%) Robotics
6 6 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.18%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.18%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.18%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.75%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.66%) Windows
2 26 (11.35%) Linux
3 18 (7.86%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.93%) Unix
6 8 (3.49%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (3.49%) Solaris
7 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.75%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.87%) CentOS
9 2 (0.87%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.87%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (23.58%) Agile
3 49 (21.40%) DevOps
4 38 (16.59%) Business Strategy
5 36 (15.72%) Open Source
6 33 (14.41%) Computer Science
7 31 (13.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (13.10%) CI/CD
9 29 (12.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 29 (12.66%) Migration
10 28 (12.23%) Network Management
11 27 (11.79%) Zero Trust
12 23 (10.04%) Machine Learning
13 22 (9.61%) Change Management
13 22 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 19 (8.30%) Roadmaps
15 18 (7.86%) High Availability
15 18 (7.86%) Microservices
16 16 (6.99%) Continuous Integration
17 15 (6.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (20.09%) Python
1 46 (20.09%) SQL
2 31 (13.54%) Java
3 29 (12.66%) PowerShell
4 19 (8.30%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.55%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.11%) Bash
7 13 (5.68%) C#
8 8 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (3.06%) C
10 4 (1.75%) ABAP
10 4 (1.75%) Go
10 4 (1.75%) Scala
11 3 (1.31%) C++
12 2 (0.87%) Bicep
12 2 (0.87%) Clojure
12 2 (0.87%) Haskell
12 2 (0.87%) Perl
12 2 (0.87%) Rust
12 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (24.02%) Security Cleared
2 38 (16.59%) Degree
3 32 (13.97%) DV Cleared
4 22 (9.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (9.61%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.31%) CCIE
7 3 (1.31%) CCNA
7 3 (1.31%) CCNP
8 2 (0.87%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.87%) CITP
8 2 (0.87%) CSPO
8 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.87%) MCP
8 2 (0.87%) MCSE
8 2 (0.87%) MOS
9 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) GDPR
2 10 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.62%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.31%) QA
6 3 (1.31%) SLA
7 2 (0.87%) COBIT
8 1 (0.44%) EMIR
8 1 (0.44%) FATCA
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) MiFID
8 1 (0.44%) NCSC
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (9.61%) Active Directory
1 22 (9.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (7.86%) Docker
3 11 (4.80%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.18%) vSphere
6 4 (1.75%) NFS
7 2 (0.87%) HDFS
7 2 (0.87%) KVM
7 2 (0.87%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.61%) Terraform
3 17 (7.42%) Ansible
4 8 (3.49%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.49%) Netcool
4 8 (3.49%) Tivoli
4 8 (3.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (3.06%) FortiGate
6 6 (2.62%) Grafana
7 5 (2.18%) SCCM
8 4 (1.75%) Kibana
9 2 (0.87%) Puppet
9 2 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.44%) yum
10 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.35%) Oracle
3 24 (10.48%) VMware
4 22 (9.61%) Google
5 20 (8.73%) Cisco
6 17 (7.42%) SAP
7 14 (6.11%) ServiceNow
8 12 (5.24%) Splunk
9 9 (3.93%) Dell
9 9 (3.93%) HP
9 9 (3.93%) IBM
10 8 (3.49%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.49%) EMC
10 8 (3.49%) Isilon
10 8 (3.49%) Qualys
10 8 (3.49%) Serena
11 7 (3.06%) Juniper
12 6 (2.62%) Palo Alto
13 5 (2.18%) Extreme Networks
13 5 (2.18%) Informatica