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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 408 437
Rank change year-on-year -79 +29 -11
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 143 110 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.40% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 1.12% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 72 68
10th Percentile £431 £360 -
25th Percentile £543 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +10.96% -2.50%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £614
90th Percentile £769 £775 £688
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 15,328 9,824 10,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.56% 35.66% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,362 6,202 6,529
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 954 497 506
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £19.53
Median hourly rate £40.48 £32.77 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -34.46% +9.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.72 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +36.67% -33.33% +2.86%

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 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -67 56 £600 -14.29% 29
North of England -55 34 £550 +36.82% 14
South East -75 22 £625 +25.00% 5
Yorkshire -21 19 £550 +50.68% 4
North West -49 15 £800 +99.00% 8
Midlands -45 13 £675 +12.42% 6
West Midlands -50 13 £675 +7.92% 1
East of England -18 8 £512 +70.72% 2
South West -47 8 £575 -4.17% 17
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 (6.99%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.40%) Apache
2 2 (1.40%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) IIS
3 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.70%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.70%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.70%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.70%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 42 (29.37%) AWS
2 37 (25.87%) Azure
3 24 (16.78%) GCP
4 15 (10.49%) GitHub
4 15 (10.49%) OpenShift
5 14 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.29%) IaaS
8 7 (4.90%) Datadog
8 7 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (4.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (2.80%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.40%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (1.40%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.79%) LAN
1 14 (9.79%) WAN
2 13 (9.09%) Firewall
3 10 (6.99%) BGP
3 10 (6.99%) VPN
4 9 (6.29%) TCP/IP
5 8 (5.59%) DNS
5 8 (5.59%) MPLS
6 7 (4.90%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (4.20%) VLAN
8 5 (3.50%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (3.50%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.50%) VSAN
8 5 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.80%) BIG-IP
9 4 (2.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (2.80%) IPsec
9 4 (2.80%) OSPF
9 4 (2.80%) SNMP
9 4 (2.80%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.80%) MySQL
2 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.70%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (9.79%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.99%) Git
3 9 (6.29%) GitLab
4 3 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.70%) Gradle
5 1 (0.70%) JIRA
5 1 (0.70%) JUnit
5 1 (0.70%) LSMW
5 1 (0.70%) Maven
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) Selenium
5 1 (0.70%) Snyk
5 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 20 (13.99%) Finance
2 18 (12.59%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.79%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.29%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.59%) Banking
5 8 (5.59%) Legal
6 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.40%) Law
7 2 (1.40%) Military
7 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Police
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.70%) Automotive
8 1 (0.70%) Electronics
8 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (32.87%) Architect
2 24 (16.78%) Senior
3 21 (14.69%) Lead
4 14 (9.79%) Project Manager
5 13 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Consultant
6 11 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 11 (7.69%) Network Architect
7 10 (6.99%) Technical Manager
7 10 (6.99%) Technical Project Manager
8 9 (6.29%) Security Architect
8 9 (6.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) DV Cleared Project Manager
9 8 (5.59%) VMware Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Infrastructure Manager
10 7 (4.90%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Site Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.78%) Terraform
2 9 (6.29%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (6.29%) RESTful
3 6 (4.20%) Kafka
4 4 (2.80%) NETCONF
4 4 (2.80%) OpenConfig
4 4 (2.80%) RESTCONF
4 4 (2.80%) YANG
5 3 (2.10%) Middleware
5 3 (2.10%) REST
6 2 (1.40%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (1.40%) cloud-init
6 2 (1.40%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (1.40%) Next.js
6 2 (1.40%) Node.js
6 2 (1.40%) React
6 2 (1.40%) SOAP
7 1 (0.70%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.70%) Web Services
7 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 25 (17.48%) Public Cloud
3 23 (16.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (10.49%) Cloud Native
5 14 (9.79%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.59%) Onboarding
7 7 (4.90%) Product Ownership
8 6 (4.20%) Operational Technology
9 5 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (3.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.80%) PKI
11 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.40%) Clustering
12 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.88%) Linux
2 10 (6.99%) Windows
3 6 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.50%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (3.50%) Unix
5 3 (2.10%) AIX
5 3 (2.10%) Debian
5 3 (2.10%) Solaris
5 3 (2.10%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (30.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 42 (29.37%) CI/CD
3 32 (22.38%) Agile
3 32 (22.38%) Technical Leadership
4 30 (20.98%) DevOps
4 30 (20.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (17.48%) Containerisation
5 25 (17.48%) Migration
6 24 (16.78%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (13.99%) Roadmaps
7 20 (13.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (13.29%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (12.59%) Microservices
10 17 (11.89%) Threat Modelling
11 16 (11.19%) Configuration Management
12 15 (10.49%) Architecture Governance
12 15 (10.49%) Data Protection
12 15 (10.49%) Observability
13 14 (9.79%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.18%) Python
2 9 (6.29%) Bash
3 8 (5.59%) Go
3 8 (5.59%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.20%) C++
4 6 (4.20%) Perl
5 5 (3.50%) C
5 5 (3.50%) Java
6 4 (2.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.40%) Bicep
7 2 (1.40%) Ruby
8 1 (0.70%) Korn
8 1 (0.70%) Scala
8 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (44.06%) Security Cleared
2 38 (26.57%) DV Cleared
3 25 (17.48%) SC Cleared
4 20 (13.99%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (11.89%) CISSP
6 13 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (8.39%) CISM
8 10 (6.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (6.99%) CCSP
8 10 (6.99%) CEH
8 10 (6.99%) OSCP
9 8 (5.59%) Degree
10 6 (4.20%) CCIE
10 6 (4.20%) CCNP
11 5 (3.50%) VCAP
12 4 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (2.80%) JNCIE
13 3 (2.10%) PMI Certification
13 3 (2.10%) PMP
13 3 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 10 (6.99%) NCSC
2 10 (6.99%) NIST
3 9 (6.29%) COBIT
4 3 (2.10%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (2.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (2.10%) PMO
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.40%) SLA
6 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.70%) GxP
System Software
1 25 (17.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (11.19%) Docker
3 15 (10.49%) VMware NSX
4 10 (6.99%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (4.90%) Hyper-V
6 6 (4.20%) vSphere
7 5 (3.50%) Ceph
7 5 (3.50%) KVM
8 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
8 3 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (1.40%) NFS
9 2 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.70%) GPFS
10 1 (0.70%) Lustre
10 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 45 (31.47%) Kubernetes
2 31 (21.68%) Ansible
3 13 (9.09%) Puppet
4 12 (8.39%) Progress Chef
5 11 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.99%) Grafana
7 8 (5.59%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.50%) Argo
9 2 (1.40%) Consul
9 2 (1.40%) SELinux
10 1 (0.70%) Cilium
10 1 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.70%) Kibana
10 1 (0.70%) logstash
10 1 (0.70%) Packer
10 1 (0.70%) Podman
10 1 (0.70%) Salt
10 1 (0.70%) SCOM
10 1 (0.70%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 37 (25.87%) VMware
2 22 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.09%) Cisco
4 12 (8.39%) SAP
5 10 (6.99%) Google
5 10 (6.99%) Splunk
6 8 (5.59%) F5
7 7 (4.90%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.50%) Ariba
8 5 (3.50%) Juniper
8 5 (3.50%) NetApp
8 5 (3.50%) Oracle
8 5 (3.50%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.50%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.80%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.80%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.40%) Citrix
10 2 (1.40%) Dell
11 1 (0.70%) Ericsson
11 1 (0.70%) Nokia