cloud-init Contracts in England

cloud-init
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring cloud-init skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited cloud-init over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 540 610
Rank change year-on-year +77 +70 +133
Contract jobs citing cloud-init 22 2 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.005% 0.085%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% 0.027% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 38
10th Percentile - - £613
25th Percentile £713 - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.59%
75th Percentile £750 - £688
90th Percentile - - £700
UK median daily rate £725 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +3.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

cloud-init falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

cloud-init
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing cloud-init as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for cloud-init in England

cloud-init
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing cloud-init in England.

Daily rate trend for cloud-init in England

cloud-init
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-init within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +34 17 £750 -
Yorkshire - 11 £725 -
London - 5 £725 -
North West +19 4 £750 -
North East - 2 £750 -
cloud-init
UK

cloud-init
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 12 (54.55%) nginx
1 12 (54.55%) Traefik
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
1 22 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 15 (68.18%) Amazon ECS
2 15 (68.18%) AWS Fargate
3 14 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (63.64%) Entra ID
3 14 (63.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (63.64%) DNS
1 14 (63.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (68.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (100.00%) GitLab
1 22 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Military
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Senior
1 20 (90.91%) Senior DevOps
2 17 (77.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (68.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Digital Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) Kafka
2 14 (63.64%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 14 (63.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) CentOS
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
1 22 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 22 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
1 22 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (81.82%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (68.18%) Secrets Management
4 14 (63.64%) Cloud Security
4 14 (63.64%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 14 (63.64%) Identity Management
4 14 (63.64%) Observability
4 14 (63.64%) Static Application Security Testing
5 12 (54.55%) Mobile Device Management
6 10 (45.45%) Agile
7 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
8 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
9 1 (4.55%) Coaching
9 1 (4.55%) Cost Reduction
9 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
9 1 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Bash
1 22 (100.00%) Go
1 22 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 18 (81.82%) SC Cleared
3 14 (63.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (63.64%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (100.00%) Packer
1 22 (100.00%) Terraform
2 15 (68.18%) Grafana
2 15 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 15 (68.18%) Prometheus
3 14 (63.64%) Consul
3 14 (63.64%) Istio
3 14 (63.64%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (63.64%) linkerd
3 14 (63.64%) Rancher
3 14 (63.64%) ZABBIX
4 12 (54.55%) HAProxy
5 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Okta
1 14 (63.64%) Splunk
2 12 (54.55%) Apple
2 12 (54.55%) ESET