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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 371 431
Rank change year-on-year -96 +60 -102
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 109 98 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.17% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 67 94
10th Percentile £450 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £526 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £654 £700 £673
90th Percentile £671 £750 £698
UK median daily rate £573 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -11.92% +18.18% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £64.10 - -
25th Percentile £70.63 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.85 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.13% - -
75th Percentile £111.15 £77.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.85 £75.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +21.13% +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 12,540 8,376 11,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.54% 33.92% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,970 5,435 7,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £256
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £663
90th Percentile £749 £784 £780
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 309 794
10th Percentile £15.62 £16.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.13 £22.72 £15.39
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +23.64% +18.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.32 £84.20 £67.85
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -69 36 £650 +6.12% 10
North of England -54 27 £581 -10.62% 5
North West -13 22 £581 +10.67% 2
South East -45 17 £531 -18.27% 21
South West -18 10 £533 -22.12% 12
West Midlands - 8 £651 - 1
Midlands - 8 £651 - 5
East of England -27 5 £413 -42.71% 2
Yorkshire -62 5 £500 -24.81%
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 16 (14.68%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.83%) Apache
3 2 (1.83%) SAS
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Weka
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.92%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.11%) Azure
2 32 (29.36%) AWS
3 17 (15.60%) GCP
4 12 (11.01%) OpenShift
5 11 (10.09%) GitHub
6 10 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.59%) SaaS
9 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.67%) Nutanix
9 4 (3.67%) PaaS
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.83%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.83%) Datadog
11 2 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.83%) npm
11 2 (1.83%) OCI
11 2 (1.83%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.51%) Firewall
2 11 (10.09%) DNS
2 11 (10.09%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.59%) DHCP
3 5 (4.59%) VSAN
4 4 (3.67%) NetScaler
4 4 (3.67%) Network Security
5 3 (2.75%) BGP
5 3 (2.75%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (2.75%) VXLAN
6 2 (1.83%) Calico
6 2 (1.83%) DMZ
6 2 (1.83%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.92%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.92%) 4G
7 1 (0.92%) HTTP
7 1 (0.92%) MPLS
7 1 (0.92%) OSPF
7 1 (0.92%) SSL
7 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.92%) Redis
2 1 (0.92%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.92%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) GitLab
2 8 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.42%) Git
4 3 (2.75%) JIRA
4 3 (2.75%) RStudio
5 2 (1.83%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.83%) Gradle
5 2 (1.83%) JUnit
5 2 (1.83%) Maven
5 2 (1.83%) Postman
5 2 (1.83%) Selenium
5 2 (1.83%) Snyk
5 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.83%) webpack
6 1 (0.92%) LSMW
General
1 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Finance
2 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.75%) Billing
3 3 (2.75%) Military
3 3 (2.75%) Social Science
4 2 (1.83%) Banking
4 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.83%) Law
5 1 (0.92%) Advertising
5 1 (0.92%) Electronics
5 1 (0.92%) Legal
5 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (33.94%) Architect
2 16 (14.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) Security Architect
5 8 (7.34%) Lead
5 8 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.42%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Senior
6 7 (6.42%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Lead Architect
7 6 (5.50%) Principal Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 4 (3.67%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.67%) Consultant
9 4 (3.67%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.75%) Developer
10 3 (2.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.01%) SAML
2 10 (9.17%) OpenID
3 9 (8.26%) OAuth
4 7 (6.42%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.50%) REST
6 4 (3.67%) RESTful
7 3 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.83%) JSON
8 2 (1.83%) SOAP
8 2 (1.83%) Spring
8 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.83%) YAML
9 1 (0.92%) Middleware
9 1 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.92%) React
9 1 (0.92%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.51%) Public Cloud
2 10 (9.17%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.50%) Grid Computing
3 6 (5.50%) Operational Technology
3 6 (5.50%) Replication
3 6 (5.50%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.59%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (4.59%) e-Learning
4 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.59%) PKI
5 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.92%) CESG
7 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.92%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.92%) IoT
7 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) Smart City
7 1 (0.92%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.76%) Windows
1 15 (13.76%) Windows Server
2 14 (12.84%) Linux
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.75%) VMS
5 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.92%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.53%) DevOps
2 40 (36.70%) CI/CD
3 27 (24.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (20.18%) Agile
4 22 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (17.43%) Containerisation
6 17 (15.60%) Technical Leadership
7 16 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (14.68%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (11.93%) Migration
9 13 (11.93%) Security Architecture
10 12 (11.01%) Mentoring
10 12 (11.01%) Observability
10 12 (11.01%) Threat Modelling
11 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (10.09%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (8.26%) Roadmaps
13 8 (7.34%) Architecture Governance
13 8 (7.34%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.60%) PowerShell
1 17 (15.60%) Python
2 11 (10.09%) Bash
3 6 (5.50%) Java
3 6 (5.50%) SQL
4 2 (1.83%) Perl
5 1 (0.92%) ActionScript
5 1 (0.92%) C#
5 1 (0.92%) C++
5 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (41.28%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.01%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.26%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.34%) CISSP
5 8 (7.34%) Degree
6 6 (5.50%) CISM
7 5 (4.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.59%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.67%) CCNP
8 4 (3.67%) CCSP
8 4 (3.67%) CEH
8 4 (3.67%) IBM Certification
8 4 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.67%) OSCP
9 2 (1.83%) CCIE
9 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) NIST
2 6 (5.50%) NCSC
3 4 (3.67%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.75%) COBIT
4 3 (2.75%) QA
5 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.83%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.92%) PMO
6 1 (0.92%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (21.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (13.76%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.76%) Docker
3 14 (12.84%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (7.34%) vSphere
5 6 (5.50%) GPFS
5 6 (5.50%) Lustre
5 6 (5.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 6 (5.50%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.92%) Ceph
7 1 (0.92%) KVM
7 1 (0.92%) QEMU
7 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (34.86%) Kubernetes
2 30 (27.52%) Terraform
3 21 (19.27%) Ansible
4 12 (11.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (9.17%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.67%) Puppet
6 4 (3.67%) SCCM
7 3 (2.75%) Grafana
7 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.75%) Rancher
8 2 (1.83%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.83%) Istio
8 2 (1.83%) Podman
8 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.83%) Salt
8 2 (1.83%) VxRail
9 1 (0.92%) Consul
9 1 (0.92%) Packer
9 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (28.44%) VMware
2 14 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.42%) Google
4 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.59%) Cisco
5 5 (4.59%) F5
5 5 (4.59%) SAP
5 5 (4.59%) Veeam
6 4 (3.67%) IBM
6 4 (3.67%) Splunk
7 3 (2.75%) Arista
7 3 (2.75%) Oracle
7 3 (2.75%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.83%) Dell
8 2 (1.83%) Denodo
8 2 (1.83%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.83%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.83%) Talend
8 2 (1.83%) Wind River