Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in England

Private Cloud
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 440 421
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 +5
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 106 77 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.25% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 0.79% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 59 114
10th Percentile £425 £423 £413
25th Percentile £500 £526 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £669 £690 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £710
UK median daily rate £575 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -5.35% +10.45% -11.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £61.20 - -
25th Percentile £63.38 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £69.38 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% - -
75th Percentile £73.01 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £73.76 - -
UK median hourly rate £69.38 £75.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.45% +3.57%

All Generic Skills
England

Private Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,059 9,741 12,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.31% 31.84% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,956 5,832 8,436
10th Percentile £283 £295 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.79% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 312 461
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.98% -10.11% +27.14%
75th Percentile £58.00 £68.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.24 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -24.29% -19.38% +24.04%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in England

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 1 December 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 +7 39 £654 +10.34% 8
South East +12 22 £549 -15.58% 10
South West +12 17 £550 -18.82% 7
North of England -41 14 £522 -19.65% 6
North West -17 11 £522 -17.27% 6
Midlands - 8 £575 - 2
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 2
East of England -12 6 £413 -42.71% 1
Yorkshire -38 3 - -
Private Cloud
UK

Private Cloud
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 12 (11.32%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.72%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.94%) JBoss
4 1 (0.94%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.94%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Weka
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (10.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.77%) Primavera
3 2 (1.89%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.89%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.94%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.94%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 42 (39.62%) Azure
2 20 (18.87%) GCP
3 19 (17.92%) AWS
4 17 (16.04%) OpenShift
5 14 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.38%) GitHub
7 10 (9.43%) PaaS
8 9 (8.49%) SaaS
9 8 (7.55%) IaaS
10 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (4.72%) npm
12 4 (3.77%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.77%) Datadog
12 4 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (3.77%) Pulumi
13 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.15%) Firewall
2 11 (10.38%) TCP/IP
3 8 (7.55%) DNS
4 6 (5.66%) SAN
5 5 (4.72%) HTTP
5 5 (4.72%) SSL
6 4 (3.77%) VSAN
7 3 (2.83%) Skype
7 3 (2.83%) VLAN
8 2 (1.89%) Network Security
8 2 (1.89%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.94%) DMZ
9 1 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.94%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.94%) NAS
9 1 (0.94%) NGFW
9 1 (0.94%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.94%) VPN
9 1 (0.94%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.89%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.94%) DB2
3 1 (0.94%) Power BI
3 1 (0.94%) Redis
3 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.94%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (16.04%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.55%) Git
2 8 (7.55%) GitLab
3 5 (4.72%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.72%) Maven
3 5 (4.72%) Robot Framework
3 5 (4.72%) SonarQube
3 5 (4.72%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (3.77%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.77%) CircleCI
4 4 (3.77%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.77%) Gradle
4 4 (3.77%) JUnit
4 4 (3.77%) Postman
4 4 (3.77%) Selenium
4 4 (3.77%) Snyk
4 4 (3.77%) webpack
5 3 (2.83%) RStudio
6 2 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 22 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.87%) Finance
3 9 (8.49%) Banking
4 7 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.83%) Social Science
7 2 (1.89%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Front Office
8 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (21.70%) Architect
2 17 (16.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (14.15%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Security Architect
5 9 (8.49%) Senior
6 8 (7.55%) Consultant
7 7 (6.60%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Lead
8 6 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.72%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) SAP Architect
10 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (3.77%) Project Planner
10 4 (3.77%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (3.77%) SAP Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Network Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.26%) Middleware
2 10 (9.43%) SAML
3 9 (8.49%) OpenID
4 8 (7.55%) React
5 7 (6.60%) OAuth
6 6 (5.66%) OAuth2
6 6 (5.66%) REST
7 5 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.77%) JSON
8 4 (3.77%) YAML
9 2 (1.89%) ModSecurity
9 2 (1.89%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.94%) Faiss
10 1 (0.94%) LangChain
10 1 (0.94%) LangGraph
10 1 (0.94%) LDAP
10 1 (0.94%) pytest
10 1 (0.94%) RAML
10 1 (0.94%) SOAP
10 1 (0.94%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.43%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.55%) Replication
4 7 (6.60%) PKI
5 6 (5.66%) Grid Computing
5 6 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.77%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.77%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.83%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.89%) FMCG
8 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.94%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (29.25%) Linux
2 23 (21.70%) Windows
3 17 (16.04%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.43%) Unix
5 3 (2.83%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.89%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.94%) CentOS
7 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.96%) CI/CD
1 36 (33.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (27.36%) DevOps
3 25 (23.58%) Containerisation
4 24 (22.64%) Agile
5 21 (19.81%) Configuration Management
5 21 (19.81%) Migration
6 19 (17.92%) High Availability
7 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (10.38%) SDLC
9 11 (10.38%) Waterfall
10 9 (8.49%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (8.49%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (8.49%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.55%) DevSecOps
11 8 (7.55%) Load Balancing
11 8 (7.55%) Open Source
11 8 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (37.74%) Python
2 25 (23.58%) PowerShell
3 22 (20.75%) SQL
4 13 (12.26%) Bash
5 12 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.38%) Java
7 8 (7.55%) C#
8 7 (6.60%) Perl
9 3 (2.83%) Go
10 1 (0.94%) Bicep
10 1 (0.94%) C++
10 1 (0.94%) R
10 1 (0.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.94%) Rust
10 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (47.17%) Security Cleared
2 33 (31.13%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.98%) DV Cleared
4 14 (13.21%) Degree
5 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.89%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.89%) CCNP
7 2 (1.89%) CISSP
7 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.89%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.94%) CCIE
8 1 (0.94%) CCNA
8 1 (0.94%) GIAC
8 1 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.94%) OCP
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.94%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) NCSC
2 4 (3.77%) P3O
3 2 (1.89%) PMO
3 2 (1.89%) SLA
4 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.94%) GRC
4 1 (0.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.94%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 20 (18.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (13.21%) Active Directory
3 13 (12.26%) Docker
4 11 (10.38%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.66%) GPFS
5 6 (5.66%) Lustre
5 6 (5.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.83%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.89%) UAG
9 1 (0.94%) Ceph
9 1 (0.94%) KVM
9 1 (0.94%) QEMU
9 1 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (35.85%) Kubernetes
2 34 (32.08%) Ansible
3 33 (31.13%) Terraform
4 10 (9.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (7.55%) Grafana
6 7 (6.60%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.60%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (5.66%) Puppet
7 6 (5.66%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.77%) Podman
8 4 (3.77%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.83%) Kibana
9 3 (2.83%) OPNET
9 3 (2.83%) Rancher
10 2 (1.89%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.89%) Salt
10 2 (1.89%) vRealize
10 2 (1.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (0.94%) Argo
11 1 (0.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (29.25%) VMware
2 24 (22.64%) Microsoft
3 13 (12.26%) SAP
4 11 (10.38%) F5
5 10 (9.43%) Red Hat
6 8 (7.55%) Oracle
7 7 (6.60%) Citrix
7 7 (6.60%) Splunk
8 5 (4.72%) Ariba
9 4 (3.77%) Cisco
9 4 (3.77%) Dell
9 4 (3.77%) HP
9 4 (3.77%) IBM
9 4 (3.77%) Veeam
10 3 (2.83%) Concur
10 3 (2.83%) NetApp
10 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.89%) NetIQ
11 2 (1.89%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.94%) Sophis