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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 452 413
Rank change year-on-year +41 -39 +20
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 108 67 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.22% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 0.69% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 51 120
10th Percentile £410 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £516 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £659 £664
90th Percentile £775 £706 £716
UK median daily rate £575 £563 £543
% change year-on-year +2.22% +3.69% -13.20%
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 10,727 9,707 12,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.41% 31.22% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,702 5,809 8,745
10th Percentile £290 £294 £285
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 294 461
10th Percentile £14.31 £16.76 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.44 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +5.56% +66.79%
75th Percentile £51.06 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.23 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 -9 38 £653 +21.28% 53
South East +26 27 £525 -19.23% 38
South West +18 16 £555 -11.20% 29
North of England -30 13 £447 -28.48% 18
North West -12 10 £447 -24.56% 17
Midlands - 9 £575 - 9
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 6
East of England -12 5 £413 -42.71% 1
Yorkshire -26 3 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 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 9 (8.33%) OpenStack
2 6 (5.56%) WebSphere
3 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.78%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.85%) Confluence
5 2 (1.85%) JBoss
5 2 (1.85%) nginx
5 2 (1.85%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.93%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (3.70%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.70%) Primavera
3 2 (1.85%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.85%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.93%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.59%) Azure
2 23 (21.30%) GCP
3 22 (20.37%) AWS
4 20 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (18.52%) OpenShift
5 10 (9.26%) SaaS
6 9 (8.33%) GitHub
6 9 (8.33%) PaaS
7 8 (7.41%) IaaS
8 6 (5.56%) Azure AKS
8 6 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.63%) npm
10 4 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.70%) Datadog
10 4 (3.70%) Pulumi
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.81%) Firewall
2 11 (10.19%) TCP/IP
3 9 (8.33%) DNS
4 6 (5.56%) SAN
5 5 (4.63%) HTTP
5 5 (4.63%) SSL
5 5 (4.63%) VLAN
6 4 (3.70%) VSAN
6 4 (3.70%) VXLAN
7 3 (2.78%) BGP
7 3 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (2.78%) Skype
7 3 (2.78%) VPN
7 3 (2.78%) WAN
8 2 (1.85%) IPsec
8 2 (1.85%) LAN
8 2 (1.85%) Multicast
8 2 (1.85%) Network Security
8 2 (1.85%) OSPF
8 2 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.78%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.85%) DB2
3 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Redis
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.93%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.19%) Git
3 9 (8.33%) GitLab
4 8 (7.41%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.63%) Maven
5 5 (4.63%) Robot Framework
5 5 (4.63%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.70%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.70%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.70%) Gradle
6 4 (3.70%) JUnit
6 4 (3.70%) Postman
6 4 (3.70%) Selenium
6 4 (3.70%) Snyk
6 4 (3.70%) webpack
7 2 (1.85%) JIRA
7 2 (1.85%) RStudio
General
1 21 (19.44%) Finance
2 20 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.33%) Banking
4 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.85%) Retail
7 2 (1.85%) Social Science
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (18.52%) Architect
2 19 (17.59%) Platform Engineer
3 13 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Senior
5 10 (9.26%) Consultant
6 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Security Architect
8 6 (5.56%) Lead
8 6 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) SAP Architect
9 5 (4.63%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Network Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Project Planner
10 4 (3.70%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) SAP Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.74%) Middleware
2 12 (11.11%) React
3 9 (8.33%) SAML
4 8 (7.41%) OpenID
5 7 (6.48%) OAuth
5 7 (6.48%) REST
6 6 (5.56%) OAuth2
7 5 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.70%) JSON
8 4 (3.70%) YAML
9 2 (1.85%) ModSecurity
9 2 (1.85%) Node.js
9 2 (1.85%) RAML
9 2 (1.85%) SAP Basis
9 2 (1.85%) SOAP
9 2 (1.85%) Web Services
9 2 (1.85%) WSDL
10 1 (0.93%) Faiss
10 1 (0.93%) LangChain
10 1 (0.93%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.04%) Data Centre
2 11 (10.19%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.41%) Replication
4 6 (5.56%) PKI
5 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.70%) Grid Computing
6 4 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.85%) FMCG
8 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.93%) CUDA
9 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.93%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.78%) Linux
2 23 (21.30%) Windows
3 17 (15.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.26%) Unix
5 3 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.85%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.93%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.41%) CI/CD
2 34 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (24.07%) Migration
4 24 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 23 (21.30%) Agile
5 23 (21.30%) Configuration Management
6 22 (20.37%) DevOps
7 20 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (16.67%) High Availability
9 17 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (11.11%) SDLC
12 11 (10.19%) Waterfall
13 9 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (8.33%) Test Automation
14 8 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
14 8 (7.41%) Load Balancing
14 8 (7.41%) Open Source
14 8 (7.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 45 (41.67%) Python
2 28 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 27 (25.00%) SQL
4 17 (15.74%) JavaScript
5 16 (14.81%) Java
6 12 (11.11%) C#
7 10 (9.26%) Bash
8 7 (6.48%) Perl
9 5 (4.63%) Go
10 3 (2.78%) Rust
11 1 (0.93%) Bicep
11 1 (0.93%) C++
11 1 (0.93%) R
11 1 (0.93%) Ruby
11 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (35.19%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.59%) DV Cleared
4 14 (12.96%) Degree
5 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.85%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.85%) CCNP
8 2 (1.85%) CISSP
8 2 (1.85%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.85%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.93%) CCIE
9 1 (0.93%) CCNA
9 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.93%) OCP
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.93%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) NCSC
2 4 (3.70%) P3O
3 2 (1.85%) PMO
3 2 (1.85%) SLA
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) GRC
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (12.96%) Active Directory
3 13 (12.04%) Docker
4 6 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.70%) GPFS
5 4 (3.70%) Lustre
5 4 (3.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.70%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.85%) Firmware
6 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.85%) UAG
7 1 (0.93%) Ceph
7 1 (0.93%) KVM
7 1 (0.93%) QEMU
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (35.19%) Kubernetes
2 37 (34.26%) Ansible
3 26 (24.07%) Terraform
4 10 (9.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (7.41%) Grafana
6 7 (6.48%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.48%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (5.56%) vCenter Server
8 5 (4.63%) Puppet
9 4 (3.70%) Podman
9 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.78%) Kibana
10 3 (2.78%) OPNET
11 2 (1.85%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.85%) Rancher
11 2 (1.85%) vRealize
11 2 (1.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 1 (0.93%) Argo
12 1 (0.93%) Packer
12 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (28.70%) VMware
2 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.96%) Red Hat
3 14 (12.96%) SAP
4 13 (12.04%) F5
5 9 (8.33%) Oracle
6 7 (6.48%) Citrix
6 7 (6.48%) Splunk
7 5 (4.63%) Ariba
7 5 (4.63%) Cisco
8 4 (3.70%) Dell
8 4 (3.70%) HP
8 4 (3.70%) IBM
8 4 (3.70%) Veeam
9 3 (2.78%) Concur
9 3 (2.78%) NetApp
9 3 (2.78%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.85%) Juniper
10 2 (1.85%) NVIDIA