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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 418 462
Rank change year-on-year -73 +44 -47
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 154 101 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 0.99% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 70 51
10th Percentile £413 £382 £463
25th Percentile £503 £468 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £687 £684 £650
90th Percentile £754 £775 £694
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £544
% change year-on-year +4.35% +5.70% +2.35%

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 15,979 10,178 10,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.35% 36.32% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,607 6,378 6,094
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £645 £649 £675
90th Percentile £750 £771 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £531
% change year-on-year +0.96% -1.98% -3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,157 523 375
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.15 £15.62
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -47.69% +24.19%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year +33.93% -43.72% +10.56%

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 3 October 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
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 3 October 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 -48 67 £600 -8.01% 126
North of England -54 35 £550 +29.41% 28
Yorkshire -13 26 £550 - 5
South East -63 22 £626 +25.10% 35
West Midlands -34 13 £675 +17.30% 7
Midlands -44 13 £675 +17.30% 9
East of England -16 10 £585 -4.55% 10
North West -54 9 £500 +17.65% 18
South West -44 4 £588 -2.08% 32
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 10 (6.49%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.30%) Apache
2 2 (1.30%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (10.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.95%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.95%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.95%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.65%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.57%) AWS
2 40 (25.97%) Azure
3 29 (18.83%) GCP
4 17 (11.04%) GitHub
4 17 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (10.39%) OpenShift
6 12 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (6.49%) Datadog
7 10 (6.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 10 (6.49%) IaaS
8 6 (3.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.90%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.25%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.95%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (1.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.74%) WAN
2 14 (9.09%) LAN
3 12 (7.79%) BGP
3 12 (7.79%) Firewall
4 11 (7.14%) VPN
5 9 (5.84%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.19%) DNS
6 8 (5.19%) MPLS
7 6 (3.90%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (3.90%) SD-WAN
7 6 (3.90%) VLAN
7 6 (3.90%) VSAN
8 5 (3.25%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.60%) BIG-IP
9 4 (2.60%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (2.60%) IPsec
9 4 (2.60%) OSPF
9 4 (2.60%) SNMP
9 4 (2.60%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.60%) MySQL
2 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (11.69%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.79%) GitLab
3 11 (7.14%) Git
4 3 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.65%) Gradle
5 1 (0.65%) Hudson
5 1 (0.65%) JIRA
5 1 (0.65%) JUnit
5 1 (0.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.65%) Postman
5 1 (0.65%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) Snyk
5 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 25 (16.23%) Finance
2 21 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.44%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.14%) Banking
4 11 (7.14%) Legal
5 9 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.60%) Automotive
7 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.95%) Law
9 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Police
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (42.21%) Architect
2 29 (18.83%) Senior
3 23 (14.94%) Cloud Architect
4 15 (9.74%) Project Manager
5 14 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (9.09%) Lead
6 13 (8.44%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (7.79%) Senior Architect
8 11 (7.14%) Technical Manager
8 11 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
9 10 (6.49%) Network Architect
10 9 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 9 (5.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) VMware Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) DV Cleared Project Manager
11 8 (5.19%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Security Architect
11 8 (5.19%) Technical Architect
12 7 (4.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (26.62%) Terraform
2 17 (11.04%) Kafka
3 8 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.25%) Pulumi
5 4 (2.60%) NETCONF
5 4 (2.60%) OpenConfig
5 4 (2.60%) RESTCONF
5 4 (2.60%) RESTful
5 4 (2.60%) YANG
6 3 (1.95%) Middleware
6 3 (1.95%) REST
7 2 (1.30%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (1.30%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.30%) JWT
7 2 (1.30%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.30%) Next.js
7 2 (1.30%) Node.js
7 2 (1.30%) OAuth
7 2 (1.30%) SOAP
7 2 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 26 (16.88%) Public Cloud
3 25 (16.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (11.04%) Onboarding
6 15 (9.74%) Product Ownership
7 14 (9.09%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (3.25%) PKI
9 4 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.30%) Clustering
11 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.65%) Grid Computing
12 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.88%) Linux
2 8 (5.19%) Windows
3 6 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.90%) Unix
4 5 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.95%) AIX
5 3 (1.95%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (1.95%) Solaris
6 2 (1.30%) Debian
6 2 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.65%) VMS
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (38.31%) CI/CD
2 56 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (24.03%) Technical Leadership
4 34 (22.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (21.43%) DevOps
5 33 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
6 32 (20.78%) Roadmaps
7 30 (19.48%) Configuration Management
8 29 (18.83%) Observability
8 29 (18.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 27 (17.53%) Agile
10 26 (16.88%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (16.88%) Microservices
10 26 (16.88%) Migration
11 23 (14.94%) Capacity Planning
11 23 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
13 20 (12.99%) Containerisation
13 20 (12.99%) GitOps
13 20 (12.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.13%) Python
2 9 (5.84%) Bash
2 9 (5.84%) Go
3 8 (5.19%) C
3 8 (5.19%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.55%) C++
4 7 (4.55%) Java
4 7 (4.55%) Perl
5 5 (3.25%) Bicep
6 4 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.30%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Korn
8 1 (0.65%) Ruby
8 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.03%) DV Cleared
3 20 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 15 (9.74%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (7.79%) CISSP
5 12 (7.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (4.55%) CISM
6 7 (4.55%) Degree
7 6 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.90%) CCIE
7 6 (3.90%) CCNP
8 5 (3.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (3.25%) CCSP
8 5 (3.25%) CEH
8 5 (3.25%) OSCP
9 4 (2.60%) JNCIE
9 4 (2.60%) VCAP
10 3 (1.95%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.95%) PMP
10 3 (1.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.49%) NCSC
2 6 (3.90%) NIST
2 6 (3.90%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.25%) COBIT
4 3 (1.95%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (1.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.30%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.65%) GxP
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (22.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (10.39%) VMware NSX
3 14 (9.09%) Docker
4 8 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.25%) Ceph
5 5 (3.25%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.25%) KVM
5 5 (3.25%) vSphere
6 2 (1.30%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (1.30%) NFS
6 2 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.65%) GPFS
7 1 (0.65%) Lustre
7 1 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 60 (38.96%) Kubernetes
2 35 (22.73%) Ansible
3 17 (11.04%) Puppet
4 16 (10.39%) Progress Chef
5 13 (8.44%) Prometheus
6 12 (7.79%) Grafana
7 6 (3.90%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.25%) Argo
9 2 (1.30%) SELinux
10 1 (0.65%) Cilium
10 1 (0.65%) Consul
10 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.65%) Podman
10 1 (0.65%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.65%) Salt
10 1 (0.65%) SCOM
10 1 (0.65%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.65%) vMotion
Vendors
1 50 (32.47%) VMware
2 24 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.04%) SAP
4 14 (9.09%) Cisco
5 12 (7.79%) Google
6 10 (6.49%) Splunk
7 9 (5.84%) SaltStack
8 8 (5.19%) Ariba
8 8 (5.19%) F5
9 7 (4.55%) Palo Alto
9 7 (4.55%) Red Hat
10 5 (3.25%) Juniper
11 4 (2.60%) Concur
11 4 (2.60%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.60%) Oracle
11 4 (2.60%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.95%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.95%) NetApp
13 2 (1.30%) Citrix
13 2 (1.30%) Dell