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 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 409 419
Rank change year-on-year -66 +10 -72
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 118 80 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.33% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 0.97% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 49 100
10th Percentile £463 £358 £463
25th Percentile £513 £402 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +11.52% -13.92%
75th Percentile £670 £680 £607
90th Percentile £699 £750 £676
UK median daily rate £581 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -3.17% +11.52% -10.33%
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 13,200 8,279 11,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 34.19% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,339 5,404 7,342
10th Percentile £313 £300 £266
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -3.64%
75th Percentile £628 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 338 818
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.03 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.91 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +32.70% -0.57% +51.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £83.59 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year +32.05% +0.83% +41.51%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -74 36 £630 +5.00% 25
North of England -51 29 £550 +39.95% 7
North West -26 21 £581 +47.84% 5
South East -41 19 £556 +28.99% 19
Midlands -47 11 £625 +74.65% 5
West Midlands - 11 £625 - 2
South West -27 9 £550 -19.12% 5
Yorkshire -46 8 £525 +0.48% 1
East of England -21 6 £549 +30.79%
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 9 (7.63%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.39%) Apache
3 3 (2.54%) SAS
4 2 (1.69%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.85%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 43 (36.44%) AWS
2 35 (29.66%) Azure
3 21 (17.80%) GCP
4 15 (12.71%) GitHub
5 13 (11.02%) OpenShift
6 12 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.39%) Datadog
10 4 (3.39%) Nutanix
11 3 (2.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (1.69%) IaaS
12 2 (1.69%) OCI
12 2 (1.69%) SaaS
12 2 (1.69%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.85%) PaaS
13 1 (0.85%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.17%) Firewall
2 7 (5.93%) DNS
3 6 (5.08%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.08%) VPN
4 5 (4.24%) DHCP
4 5 (4.24%) VSAN
5 4 (3.39%) NetScaler
6 3 (2.54%) VXLAN
7 2 (1.69%) BGP
7 2 (1.69%) Calico
7 2 (1.69%) LAN
7 2 (1.69%) Network Security
7 2 (1.69%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.69%) VLAN
7 2 (1.69%) WAN
8 1 (0.85%) DMZ
8 1 (0.85%) Internet
8 1 (0.85%) MPLS
8 1 (0.85%) OSPF
8 1 (0.85%) SSL
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 14 (11.86%) GitLab
2 9 (7.63%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.08%) Git
4 3 (2.54%) JIRA
5 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.85%) Gradle
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) LSMW
6 1 (0.85%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) Postman
6 1 (0.85%) RStudio
6 1 (0.85%) Selenium
6 1 (0.85%) Snyk
6 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 14 (11.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.02%) Finance
2 13 (11.02%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.24%) Banking
5 3 (2.54%) Billing
5 3 (2.54%) Legal
5 3 (2.54%) Military
6 2 (1.69%) Law
6 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.85%) Advertising
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Electronics
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 41 (34.75%) Architect
2 16 (13.56%) Senior
3 13 (11.02%) Lead
4 12 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (8.47%) VMware Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Lead Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Consultant
8 7 (5.93%) Principal Architect
8 7 (5.93%) Security Consultant
9 6 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (5.08%) Security Architect
9 6 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.78%) RESTful
2 5 (4.24%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.24%) REST
3 3 (2.54%) OAuth
3 3 (2.54%) SAML
4 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.69%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.69%) SOAP
4 2 (1.69%) Spring
4 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.85%) JSON
5 1 (0.85%) Kafka
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.85%) OpenID
5 1 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.41%) Data Centre
1 17 (14.41%) Public Cloud
2 9 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.08%) Operational Technology
4 6 (5.08%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.24%) e-Learning
5 5 (4.24%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.54%) PKI
7 2 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.69%) Replication
8 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.85%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.85%) IoT
8 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.85%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Linux
2 10 (8.47%) Windows
3 8 (6.78%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.39%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (3.39%) VMS
4 4 (3.39%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.54%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.69%) AIX
6 2 (1.69%) Debian
6 2 (1.69%) Solaris
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.20%) DevOps
2 37 (31.36%) CI/CD
3 28 (23.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (21.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (21.19%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (20.34%) Containerisation
6 22 (18.64%) Agile
7 20 (16.95%) Migration
7 20 (16.95%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (15.25%) Threat Modelling
9 16 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 15 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (12.71%) Observability
11 14 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
12 13 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (11.02%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.02%) Microservices
13 12 (10.17%) Roadmaps
14 11 (9.32%) Architectural Design
15 10 (8.47%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.17%) PowerShell
1 12 (10.17%) Python
2 7 (5.93%) Bash
3 5 (4.24%) Java
4 4 (3.39%) Go
4 4 (3.39%) SQL
5 2 (1.69%) Ruby
6 1 (0.85%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.85%) C++
6 1 (0.85%) Perl
6 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (44.07%) Security Cleared
2 32 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.56%) DV Cleared
4 14 (11.86%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (9.32%) CISM
5 11 (9.32%) CISSP
6 10 (8.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (7.63%) CCSP
7 9 (7.63%) CEH
7 9 (7.63%) OSCP
8 6 (5.08%) AWS Certification
8 6 (5.08%) Degree
8 6 (5.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (4.24%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.39%) CCNP
10 4 (3.39%) IBM Certification
10 4 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.69%) VCAP
13 1 (0.85%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) NIST
2 9 (7.63%) PCI DSS
3 8 (6.78%) COBIT
4 7 (5.93%) NCSC
5 3 (2.54%) QA
6 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.69%) PMO
6 2 (1.69%) SLA
7 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.85%) RMADS
System Software
1 24 (20.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.17%) Docker
3 9 (7.63%) VMware NSX
4 8 (6.78%) Active Directory
4 8 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.78%) vSphere
5 5 (4.24%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.54%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.69%) Ceph
8 2 (1.69%) KVM
8 2 (1.69%) NFS
9 1 (0.85%) GPFS
9 1 (0.85%) Lustre
9 1 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 35 (29.66%) Kubernetes
2 33 (27.97%) Terraform
3 26 (22.03%) Ansible
4 6 (5.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (4.24%) Argo
5 5 (4.24%) Grafana
5 5 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.24%) Puppet
5 5 (4.24%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.39%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.39%) SCCM
6 4 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.69%) Consul
7 2 (1.69%) Istio
7 2 (1.69%) SELinux
8 1 (0.85%) logstash
8 1 (0.85%) Packer
8 1 (0.85%) Rancher
8 1 (0.85%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (27.12%) VMware
2 10 (8.47%) Google
3 5 (4.24%) F5
3 5 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.24%) SAP
3 5 (4.24%) Splunk
4 4 (3.39%) Cisco
4 4 (3.39%) IBM
4 4 (3.39%) NetApp
4 4 (3.39%) Oracle
4 4 (3.39%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.39%) Veeam
5 3 (2.54%) Arista
5 3 (2.54%) Denodo
5 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.54%) Talend
6 2 (1.69%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.69%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.69%) Wind River
7 1 (0.85%) Huawei