Private Cloud Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 443 402
Rank change year-on-year +42 -41 +87
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 91 102 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.27% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 0.89% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 90 215
10th Percentile £358 £463 £450
25th Percentile £416 £479 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £538 £618
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -12.87% +7.02%
75th Percentile £688 £613 £738
90th Percentile £765 £688 £823
UK median daily rate £585 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +8.74% -10.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £72.00
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +47.37%

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 9,205 11,434 15,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.71% 30.68% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,870 7,362 11,121
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 826 516
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.40 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.72 £37.50 £25.58
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +46.60% -3.47%
75th Percentile £59.23 £63.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £23.90
% change year-on-year -17.81% +52.75% -11.43%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in England.

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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 +66 48 £650 +9.01% 160
South East +42 16 £500 -21.57% 45
North of England +12 13 £393 -27.39% 35
North West +11 12 £402 -23.06% 18
South West -8 8 £588 +17.50% 27
Midlands +9 3 £900 +33.33% 20
East of England +25 2 £360 - 11
West Midlands +6 2 £900 +33.33% 15
Yorkshire - 1 £365 - 10
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 4
Private Cloud
UK

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (13.19%) WebSphere
2 8 (8.79%) JBoss
2 8 (8.79%) Tomcat
3 7 (7.69%) WebLogic
4 5 (5.49%) Apache
5 3 (3.30%) OpenStack
6 2 (2.20%) nginx
7 1 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (1.10%) Camunda
7 1 (1.10%) CMS
7 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.30%) Primavera
3 2 (2.20%) assyst
3 2 (2.20%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (1.10%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.10%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.10%) SAP LE
4 1 (1.10%) SAP MII
4 1 (1.10%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.10%) SAP PP
4 1 (1.10%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 39 (42.86%) Azure
2 27 (29.67%) AWS
3 16 (17.58%) OpenShift
4 14 (15.38%) SaaS
5 13 (14.29%) IaaS
6 12 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (13.19%) GCP
6 12 (13.19%) PaaS
7 9 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.20%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.20%) GitHub
9 2 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.10%) Akamai
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.10%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) Firewall
2 6 (6.59%) SAN
3 4 (4.40%) DNS
3 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 4 (4.40%) WAN
4 3 (3.30%) HTTP
4 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.30%) VLAN
5 2 (2.20%) BGP
5 2 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (2.20%) IPsec
5 2 (2.20%) LAN
5 2 (2.20%) Multicast
5 2 (2.20%) Network Security
5 2 (2.20%) OSPF
5 2 (2.20%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.20%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.20%) SNMP
5 2 (2.20%) VSAN
5 2 (2.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) DB2
2 5 (5.49%) Big Data
3 4 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.20%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.20%) MySQL
5 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.20%) Redis
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (17.58%) Jenkins
2 15 (16.48%) Bitbucket
3 12 (13.19%) Git
4 5 (5.49%) GitLab
5 3 (3.30%) JIRA
5 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.10%) Hudson
7 1 (1.10%) Selenium
7 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.10%) TestNG
General
1 23 (25.27%) Finance
2 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
5 4 (4.40%) Legal
5 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.30%) Law
7 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.10%) Billing
8 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.10%) Military
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (35.16%) Architect
2 16 (17.58%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (13.19%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) Lead
5 10 (10.99%) Senior
6 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Architect
7 7 (7.69%) Consultant
7 7 (7.69%) Scrum Master
8 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Network Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (4.40%) Azure Architect
10 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Architect
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (3.30%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 3 (3.30%) Security Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) Middleware
2 11 (12.09%) REST
3 10 (10.99%) React
3 10 (10.99%) SOAP
4 8 (8.79%) Web Services
5 7 (7.69%) RAML
5 7 (7.69%) WSDL
6 6 (6.59%) Spring
7 5 (5.49%) .NET
7 5 (5.49%) CSS
7 5 (5.49%) HTML
7 5 (5.49%) JSP
7 5 (5.49%) Servlets
7 5 (5.49%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.40%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
8 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (4.40%) EJB
8 4 (4.40%) J2EE
8 4 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.68%) Public Cloud
2 12 (13.19%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.40%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (3.30%) CMDB
7 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.30%) Replication
8 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.20%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.10%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (1.10%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.88%) Linux
2 10 (10.99%) Unix
3 8 (8.79%) Windows
4 7 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.37%) Agile
1 24 (26.37%) Migration
2 22 (24.18%) CI/CD
3 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (18.68%) Configuration Management
5 15 (16.48%) Containerisation
5 15 (16.48%) High Availability
5 15 (16.48%) SDLC
6 14 (15.38%) DevOps
7 12 (13.19%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (12.09%) Scrum
9 9 (9.89%) Capacity Planning
9 9 (9.89%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.89%) Waterfall
10 8 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (7.69%) API Development
11 7 (7.69%) Budget Control
11 7 (7.69%) Microservices
11 7 (7.69%) Open Source
11 7 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.37%) SQL
2 23 (25.27%) JavaScript
3 22 (24.18%) Python
4 17 (18.68%) Java
5 16 (17.58%) C#
5 16 (17.58%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.30%) Go
8 2 (2.20%) Rust
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) Degree
3 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.20%) JNCIA
4 2 (2.20%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.10%) CCNP
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) P3O
2 2 (2.20%) PMO
3 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 12 (13.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.79%) Docker
3 6 (6.59%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.49%) vSphere
5 4 (4.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (4.40%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.30%) vCloud
6 3 (3.30%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (2.20%) Firmware
7 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 21 (23.08%) Ansible
3 6 (6.59%) Kibana
3 6 (6.59%) Terraform
4 4 (4.40%) Grafana
4 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.20%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.10%) Consul
6 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.10%) Puppet
6 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (23.08%) VMware
2 18 (19.78%) Microsoft
3 14 (15.38%) Oracle
3 14 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 9 (9.89%) SAP
5 8 (8.79%) F5
6 5 (5.49%) Cisco
6 5 (5.49%) Google
6 5 (5.49%) HP
6 5 (5.49%) IBM
7 4 (4.40%) Citrix
8 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.20%) Ericsson
9 2 (2.20%) Juniper
9 2 (2.20%) Nokia
9 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.10%) Ariba
10 1 (1.10%) Brocade
10 1 (1.10%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.10%) NetApp