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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 403 455
Rank change year-on-year -77 +52 -48
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 145 107 76
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.39% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 1.09% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 69 64
10th Percentile £419 £358 -
25th Percentile £540 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.93% -2.23%
75th Percentile £687 £700 £610
90th Percentile £769 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £531
% change year-on-year +4.35% +8.24% -3.41%
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 15,389 9,780 10,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.72% 35.93% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 6,180 6,309
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £686
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 487 466
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.50 £13.97
25th Percentile £18.52 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -38.46% +16.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.62 £77.50 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £38.53 £30.00 £46.21
% change year-on-year +28.42% -35.07% +7.14%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -75 58 £600 -14.29% 126
North of England -59 34 £575 +43.03% 48
South East -74 22 £626 +25.10% 23
Yorkshire -25 19 £550 +50.68% 22
North West -46 15 £800 +99.00% 26
West Midlands -40 13 £675 +12.42% 4
Midlands -42 13 £675 +17.30% 11
East of England -12 8 £512 +70.72% 16
South West -48 8 £575 -4.17% 37
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 (6.90%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.38%) Apache
2 2 (1.38%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
3 1 (0.69%) IIS
3 1 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (7.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.69%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.69%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.69%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.97%) AWS
2 37 (25.52%) Azure
3 25 (17.24%) GCP
4 15 (10.34%) GitHub
4 15 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 14 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.90%) IaaS
7 7 (4.83%) Datadog
7 7 (4.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (4.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (2.76%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.38%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (1.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.38%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.66%) LAN
1 14 (9.66%) WAN
2 13 (8.97%) Firewall
3 11 (7.59%) BGP
4 10 (6.90%) VPN
5 9 (6.21%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.52%) DNS
6 8 (5.52%) MPLS
7 7 (4.83%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (4.14%) VLAN
9 5 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (3.45%) SD-WAN
9 5 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.76%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (2.76%) IPsec
10 4 (2.76%) OSPF
10 4 (2.76%) SNMP
10 4 (2.76%) TACACS
10 4 (2.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.76%) MySQL
2 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.69%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.59%) Git
3 9 (6.21%) GitLab
4 3 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.69%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.69%) Gradle
5 1 (0.69%) JIRA
5 1 (0.69%) JUnit
5 1 (0.69%) LSMW
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.69%) Postman
5 1 (0.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.69%) Snyk
5 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 20 (13.79%) Finance
2 18 (12.41%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.21%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.52%) Banking
5 8 (5.52%) Legal
6 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.07%) Law
8 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.38%) Military
8 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.38%) Police
9 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.69%) Automotive
9 1 (0.69%) Electronics
9 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (33.79%) Architect
2 24 (16.55%) Senior
3 21 (14.48%) Lead
4 14 (9.66%) Project Manager
5 13 (8.97%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.28%) Network Architect
7 11 (7.59%) Lead Architect
8 10 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) Technical Manager
8 10 (6.90%) Technical Project Manager
9 9 (6.21%) Consultant
9 9 (6.21%) Security Architect
9 9 (6.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) DV Cleared Project Manager
10 8 (5.52%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Infrastructure Manager
11 7 (4.83%) Site Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Technical Leader
11 7 (4.83%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.83%) Terraform
2 9 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (5.52%) Kafka
3 8 (5.52%) RESTful
4 4 (2.76%) NETCONF
4 4 (2.76%) OpenConfig
4 4 (2.76%) RESTCONF
4 4 (2.76%) YANG
5 3 (2.07%) Middleware
5 3 (2.07%) REST
6 2 (1.38%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (1.38%) cloud-init
6 2 (1.38%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (1.38%) Next.js
6 2 (1.38%) Node.js
6 2 (1.38%) React
6 2 (1.38%) SOAP
6 2 (1.38%) YAML
7 1 (0.69%) JSON
7 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.76%) Data Centre
2 25 (17.24%) Public Cloud
3 23 (15.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (10.34%) Cloud Native
6 10 (6.90%) Onboarding
7 9 (6.21%) Product Ownership
8 6 (4.14%) Operational Technology
9 5 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.76%) PKI
11 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.38%) Clustering
12 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.31%) Linux
2 10 (6.90%) Windows
3 7 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.14%) Unix
4 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.45%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (2.07%) AIX
6 3 (2.07%) Debian
6 3 (2.07%) Solaris
6 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.38%) VMS
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (31.72%) CI/CD
2 45 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (23.45%) Technical Leadership
4 31 (21.38%) DevOps
4 31 (21.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 30 (20.69%) Agile
6 25 (17.24%) Containerisation
6 25 (17.24%) Migration
7 24 (16.55%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (15.17%) Roadmaps
8 22 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (13.10%) Configuration Management
11 18 (12.41%) Microservices
12 17 (11.72%) Observability
13 16 (11.03%) Capacity Planning
13 16 (11.03%) Data Protection
14 15 (10.34%) Architecture Governance
14 15 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.31%) Python
2 9 (6.21%) Bash
3 8 (5.52%) Go
3 8 (5.52%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.83%) C++
4 7 (4.83%) Perl
5 6 (4.14%) C
6 5 (3.45%) Java
7 4 (2.76%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.38%) Bicep
8 2 (1.38%) Ruby
9 1 (0.69%) Korn
9 1 (0.69%) Scala
9 1 (0.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (43.45%) Security Cleared
2 39 (26.90%) DV Cleared
3 26 (17.93%) SC Cleared
4 18 (12.41%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (10.34%) CISSP
6 12 (8.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (6.90%) CISM
8 8 (5.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (5.52%) CCSP
8 8 (5.52%) CEH
8 8 (5.52%) Degree
8 8 (5.52%) OSCP
9 6 (4.14%) CCIE
9 6 (4.14%) CCNP
10 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.76%) JNCIE
10 4 (2.76%) VCAP
11 3 (2.07%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.07%) PMP
11 3 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.90%) NCSC
2 9 (6.21%) PCI DSS
3 8 (5.52%) COBIT
3 8 (5.52%) NIST
4 3 (2.07%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (2.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (2.07%) PMO
5 2 (1.38%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.69%) GxP
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (18.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (11.03%) Docker
3 15 (10.34%) VMware NSX
4 9 (6.21%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (4.83%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.45%) Ceph
6 5 (3.45%) KVM
6 5 (3.45%) vSphere
7 3 (2.07%) Active Directory
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.38%) NFS
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.69%) GPFS
9 1 (0.69%) Lustre
9 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (33.10%) Kubernetes
2 31 (21.38%) Ansible
3 14 (9.66%) Puppet
4 13 (8.97%) Progress Chef
5 11 (7.59%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.90%) Grafana
7 7 (4.83%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.45%) Argo
9 2 (1.38%) Consul
9 2 (1.38%) SELinux
10 1 (0.69%) Cilium
10 1 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.69%) Kibana
10 1 (0.69%) logstash
10 1 (0.69%) Packer
10 1 (0.69%) Podman
10 1 (0.69%) Salt
10 1 (0.69%) SCOM
10 1 (0.69%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 39 (26.90%) VMware
2 22 (15.17%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.66%) Cisco
4 12 (8.28%) SAP
5 11 (7.59%) Google
6 10 (6.90%) Splunk
7 8 (5.52%) F5
8 7 (4.83%) Palo Alto
9 6 (4.14%) Red Hat
9 6 (4.14%) SaltStack
10 5 (3.45%) Ariba
10 5 (3.45%) Juniper
10 5 (3.45%) NetApp
10 5 (3.45%) Oracle
11 4 (2.76%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.76%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.38%) Citrix
12 2 (1.38%) Dell
13 1 (0.69%) Ericsson
13 1 (0.69%) Nokia