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 26 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 402 393
Rank change year-on-year -38 -9 -26
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 109 77 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.29% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 0.89% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 55 117
10th Percentile £434 £500 £456
25th Percentile £500 £526 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £701
UK median daily rate £574 £644 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +17.05% -14.56%
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 11,208 8,663 11,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.73% 32.75% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,157 5,204 7,808
10th Percentile £283 £270 £252
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 243 670
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.05 £37.50 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year -19.86% +8.37% +53.90%
75th Percentile £63.08 £67.51 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.09 £35.00 £33.36
% change year-on-year -19.74% +4.93% +48.59%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -16 40 £644 +7.29% 10
South East -17 19 £525 -19.23% 21
North of England -44 18 £505 -23.85% 6
North West -13 15 £505 -22.38% 4
South West -10 14 £550 -19.12% 4
West Midlands - 7 £575 - 2
Midlands - 7 £575 - 4
East of England -10 6 £413 -44.82%
Yorkshire -45 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 17 (15.60%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Weka
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.83%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.83%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.92%) Primavera
3 1 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.92%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.44%) Azure
2 27 (24.77%) AWS
3 20 (18.35%) GCP
4 15 (13.76%) GitHub
4 15 (13.76%) OpenShift
5 11 (10.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.50%) npm
10 5 (4.59%) Azure AKS
10 5 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (4.59%) Datadog
10 5 (4.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.59%) Pulumi
11 4 (3.67%) PaaS
11 4 (3.67%) SaaS
12 3 (2.75%) Nutanix
13 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.51%) Firewall
2 13 (11.93%) DNS
2 13 (11.93%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.50%) VSAN
4 4 (3.67%) DHCP
4 4 (3.67%) SSL
5 3 (2.75%) HTTP
5 3 (2.75%) NetScaler
5 3 (2.75%) Network Security
5 3 (2.75%) Skype
6 2 (1.83%) BGP
6 2 (1.83%) Calico
6 2 (1.83%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (1.83%) VLAN
6 2 (1.83%) VPN
6 2 (1.83%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.92%) DMZ
7 1 (0.92%) Internet
7 1 (0.92%) MPLS
7 1 (0.92%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.92%) Power BI
2 1 (0.92%) Redis
2 1 (0.92%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (0.92%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (14.68%) GitLab
2 12 (11.01%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.17%) Git
4 6 (5.50%) Maven
4 6 (5.50%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.59%) Artifactory
5 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.59%) CircleCI
5 5 (4.59%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.59%) Gradle
5 5 (4.59%) JUnit
5 5 (4.59%) Postman
5 5 (4.59%) Selenium
5 5 (4.59%) Snyk
5 5 (4.59%) webpack
6 4 (3.67%) RStudio
7 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.83%) JIRA
7 2 (1.83%) Robot Framework
General
1 22 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Finance
3 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.67%) Social Science
6 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Billing
7 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.83%) Law
8 1 (0.92%) Advertising
8 1 (0.92%) Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.92%) Legal
8 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (22.94%) Architect
2 21 (19.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Security Architect
5 10 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Senior
7 6 (5.50%) Principal Architect
8 5 (4.59%) VMware Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Consultant
9 4 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Automation Architect
10 3 (2.75%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 3 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.75%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Network Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Service Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.75%) Service Manager
10 3 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.93%) SAML
2 10 (9.17%) OAuth
2 10 (9.17%) OpenID
3 9 (8.26%) REST
4 7 (6.42%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.59%) JSON
6 5 (4.59%) YAML
7 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.83%) ModSecurity
7 2 (1.83%) Spring
7 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.92%) Faiss
8 1 (0.92%) LangChain
8 1 (0.92%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.92%) LDAP
8 1 (0.92%) Middleware
8 1 (0.92%) Ollama
8 1 (0.92%) React
8 1 (0.92%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) Public Cloud
2 13 (11.93%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.26%) Replication
4 7 (6.42%) PKI
5 6 (5.50%) Grid Computing
6 5 (4.59%) e-Learning
6 5 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.59%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.75%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.83%) FMCG
10 1 (0.92%) CESG
10 1 (0.92%) Clustering
10 1 (0.92%) CUDA
10 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.92%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.92%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.02%) Linux
2 22 (20.18%) Windows
3 17 (15.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.67%) Unix
6 3 (2.75%) VMS
6 3 (2.75%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.92%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.28%) DevOps
2 41 (37.61%) CI/CD
3 27 (24.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (22.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
7 17 (15.60%) Agile
8 15 (13.76%) Configuration Management
9 14 (12.84%) Migration
10 13 (11.93%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (11.01%) Mentoring
11 12 (11.01%) Observability
12 11 (10.09%) DevSecOps
12 11 (10.09%) Infrastructure Automation
13 10 (9.17%) Load Balancing
14 9 (8.26%) High Availability
14 9 (8.26%) ITIL
14 9 (8.26%) Root Cause Analysis
14 9 (8.26%) Security Architecture
14 9 (8.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.61%) Python
2 21 (19.27%) PowerShell
3 14 (12.84%) Bash
4 9 (8.26%) SQL
5 6 (5.50%) Java
6 5 (4.59%) Perl
7 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.83%) Go
9 1 (0.92%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.92%) Bicep
9 1 (0.92%) C#
9 1 (0.92%) C++
9 1 (0.92%) R
9 1 (0.92%) Ruby
9 1 (0.92%) Rust
9 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (44.95%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.43%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.17%) Degree
5 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.59%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.67%) CISSP
7 4 (3.67%) IBM Certification
8 3 (2.75%) CCNP
9 2 (1.83%) CCIE
9 2 (1.83%) CISM
9 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.83%) GIAC
10 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.92%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) NCSC
2 3 (2.75%) QA
3 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.92%) NIST
3 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.92%) P3O
3 1 (0.92%) RMADS
3 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (25.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (14.68%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.68%) Docker
3 14 (12.84%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.50%) GPFS
4 6 (5.50%) Lustre
4 6 (5.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 6 (5.50%) vSphere
5 5 (4.59%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.83%) UAG
9 1 (0.92%) Ceph
9 1 (0.92%) KVM
9 1 (0.92%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 40 (36.70%) Kubernetes
2 39 (35.78%) Terraform
3 30 (27.52%) Ansible
4 15 (13.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (10.09%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (6.42%) Puppet
7 6 (5.50%) Grafana
7 6 (5.50%) Prometheus
8 5 (4.59%) Podman
8 5 (4.59%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.59%) vCenter Server
9 4 (3.67%) Rancher
10 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.75%) OPNET
10 3 (2.75%) SCCM
11 2 (1.83%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.83%) Istio
11 2 (1.83%) Salt
11 2 (1.83%) vRealize
11 2 (1.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 36 (33.03%) VMware
2 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.34%) F5
3 8 (7.34%) SAP
4 7 (6.42%) Splunk
5 6 (5.50%) Cisco
5 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.50%) Veeam
6 5 (4.59%) Google
7 4 (3.67%) IBM
8 3 (2.75%) Ariba
8 3 (2.75%) Arista
8 3 (2.75%) Dell
9 2 (1.83%) NetApp
9 2 (1.83%) NetIQ
9 2 (1.83%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle
9 2 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.83%) Wind River