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 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 405 454
Rank change year-on-year -84 +49 -52
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 118 97 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.35% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% 1.01% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 59 82
10th Percentile £463 £358 £463
25th Percentile £525 £416 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £595 £536
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +10.96% -10.63%
75th Percentile £695 £688 £600
90th Percentile £784 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £585 £538
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.79% -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £45.14 - -
25th Percentile £67.11 - -
Median hourly rate £107.43 - -
75th Percentile £111.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £107.43 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.57%

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 14,861 9,561 11,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.11% 34.86% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,219 6,063 7,183
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 471 716
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -17.78% +10.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £61.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +46.53% -23.57% +12.14%

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 20 July 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Private Cloud in England

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 20 July 2026. 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 -77 41 £630 -3.08% 26
North of England -66 24 £550 +39.95% 6
South East -66 20 £650 +26.83% 11
North West -46 16 £700 +74.13% 3
Midlands -34 13 £663 -10.10% 9
West Midlands -51 13 £663 -26.33% 6
East of England -9 8 £512 +42.27% 3
South West -36 8 £568 -3.40% 5
Yorkshire -45 8 £525 +43.84% 1
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 7 (5.93%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.54%) Apache
2 3 (2.54%) SAS
3 2 (1.69%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.85%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (36.44%) AWS
2 37 (31.36%) Azure
3 21 (17.80%) GCP
4 13 (11.02%) GitHub
4 13 (11.02%) OpenShift
5 12 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (5.08%) Datadog
7 6 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.69%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.69%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.85%) IaaS
11 1 (0.85%) OCI
11 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.86%) Firewall
2 12 (10.17%) LAN
2 12 (10.17%) TCP/IP
2 12 (10.17%) WAN
3 11 (9.32%) VPN
4 10 (8.47%) BGP
5 9 (7.63%) MPLS
6 8 (6.78%) DNS
7 6 (5.08%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (5.08%) VLAN
8 5 (4.24%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (4.24%) OSPF
8 5 (4.24%) SD-WAN
8 5 (4.24%) VSAN
8 5 (4.24%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.39%) BIG-IP
9 4 (3.39%) IPsec
9 4 (3.39%) Network Security
9 4 (3.39%) SNMP
9 4 (3.39%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (7.63%) GitLab
2 8 (6.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.39%) Git
4 3 (2.54%) JIRA
5 2 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.85%) LSMW
General
1 17 (14.41%) Finance
2 14 (11.86%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.17%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.93%) Legal
7 5 (4.24%) Banking
8 4 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.54%) Military
10 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Billing
11 1 (0.85%) Electronics
11 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.85%) Law
11 1 (0.85%) Local Government
11 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (38.14%) Architect
2 18 (15.25%) Lead
2 18 (15.25%) Senior
3 13 (11.02%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (9.32%) Consultant
4 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (9.32%) Lead Architect
4 11 (9.32%) Network Architect
4 11 (9.32%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.63%) Technical Architect
5 9 (7.63%) VMware Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) DV Cleared Project Manager
6 8 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Technical Manager
6 8 (6.78%) Technical Project Manager
7 7 (5.93%) Infrastructure Manager
7 7 (5.93%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 7 (5.93%) Security Consultant
8 6 (5.08%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.63%) RESTful
2 7 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (3.39%) NETCONF
3 4 (3.39%) OpenConfig
3 4 (3.39%) RESTCONF
3 4 (3.39%) YANG
4 2 (1.69%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (1.69%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.69%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (1.69%) Next.js
4 2 (1.69%) Node.js
4 2 (1.69%) React
4 2 (1.69%) REST
5 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.85%) Kafka
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth
5 1 (0.85%) SAML
5 1 (0.85%) SOAP
5 1 (0.85%) Spring
5 1 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.42%) Data Centre
2 21 (17.80%) Public Cloud
3 17 (14.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (11.86%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.08%) Operational Technology
7 5 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (4.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.39%) PKI
9 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.85%) CESG
11 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.85%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.85%) IoT
11 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.71%) Linux
2 9 (7.63%) Windows
3 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.39%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (2.54%) AIX
5 3 (2.54%) Debian
5 3 (2.54%) Solaris
5 3 (2.54%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.42%) DevOps
2 29 (24.58%) Agile
2 29 (24.58%) CI/CD
2 29 (24.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (22.88%) Containerisation
4 22 (18.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (17.80%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (17.80%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (16.95%) Migration
7 17 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (14.41%) Threat Modelling
8 15 (12.71%) Microservices
8 15 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (11.86%) Roadmaps
9 14 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (11.02%) Project Delivery
10 13 (11.02%) Zero Trust
11 12 (10.17%) Business Continuity
11 12 (10.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (9.32%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.95%) Python
2 9 (7.63%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.93%) Bash
3 7 (5.93%) Go
4 3 (2.54%) Java
4 3 (2.54%) SQL
5 2 (1.69%) Ruby
6 1 (0.85%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.85%) Bicep
6 1 (0.85%) C++
6 1 (0.85%) Perl
6 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (54.24%) Security Cleared
2 35 (29.66%) DV Cleared
3 28 (23.73%) SC Cleared
4 22 (18.64%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (12.71%) CISSP
6 12 (10.17%) CISM
6 12 (10.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (8.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 10 (8.47%) CCSP
7 10 (8.47%) CEH
7 10 (8.47%) OSCP
8 8 (6.78%) CCNP
8 8 (6.78%) Degree
9 7 (5.93%) CCIE
10 4 (3.39%) JNCIE
10 4 (3.39%) VCAP
11 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.54%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.54%) PMP
11 3 (2.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) NIST
2 11 (9.32%) NCSC
3 10 (8.47%) PCI DSS
4 9 (7.63%) COBIT
5 3 (2.54%) PMO
5 3 (2.54%) SLA
6 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.85%) GxP
7 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.85%) RMADS
System Software
1 17 (14.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (12.71%) Docker
2 15 (12.71%) VMware NSX
3 7 (5.93%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.08%) vSphere
5 5 (4.24%) Active Directory
6 3 (2.54%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.69%) Ceph
7 2 (1.69%) KVM
7 2 (1.69%) NFS
7 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.85%) GPFS
8 1 (0.85%) Lustre
8 1 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (25.42%) Kubernetes
1 30 (25.42%) Terraform
2 25 (21.19%) Ansible
3 7 (5.93%) Grafana
3 7 (5.93%) Prometheus
3 7 (5.93%) Puppet
3 7 (5.93%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.08%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.24%) Argo
6 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.69%) Consul
7 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.69%) SCCM
7 2 (1.69%) SELinux
7 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.85%) Kibana
8 1 (0.85%) logstash
8 1 (0.85%) Packer
8 1 (0.85%) Salt
8 1 (0.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 29 (24.58%) VMware
2 15 (12.71%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.32%) Cisco
3 11 (9.32%) F5
4 10 (8.47%) Google
5 8 (6.78%) SAP
6 7 (5.93%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.93%) Splunk
7 5 (4.24%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.24%) Juniper
8 4 (3.39%) NetApp
8 4 (3.39%) Oracle
8 4 (3.39%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.54%) Ariba
9 3 (2.54%) Denodo
9 3 (2.54%) Talend
10 2 (1.69%) Citrix
10 2 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.69%) Veeam
11 1 (0.85%) Huawei