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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 413 451
Rank change year-on-year -78 +38 -55
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 123 98 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 1.03% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 60 81
10th Percentile £463 £358 £463
25th Percentile £550 £418 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £596 £535
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% +11.45% -10.83%
75th Percentile £695 £681 £600
90th Percentile £780 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £595 £536
% change year-on-year +0.88% +10.96% -8.33%
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 14,893 9,501 10,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.20% 34.80% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,247 6,011 7,112
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £421 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 472 686
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £41.13
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -19.76% +4.34%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £80.00 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -21.05% +8.57%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -80 40 £635 -2.31% 36
North of England -64 24 £625 +59.03% 10
South East -57 22 £581 +10.67% 16
West Midlands -41 17 £671 -25.50% 6
Midlands -41 17 £671 -9.08% 9
North West -44 16 £750 +86.57% 6
East of England -14 8 £512 +42.27% 4
South West -36 8 £568 -3.40% 5
Yorkshire -41 8 £525 +43.84% 2
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 (7.32%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.44%) Apache
2 3 (2.44%) SAS
3 2 (1.63%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.81%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.81%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (5.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.81%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.81%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.81%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.40%) AWS
2 41 (33.33%) Azure
3 22 (17.89%) GCP
4 14 (11.38%) GitHub
5 13 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (10.57%) OpenShift
6 9 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.69%) Datadog
7 7 (5.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (4.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.63%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.63%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.63%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.38%) Firewall
2 12 (9.76%) LAN
2 12 (9.76%) TCP/IP
2 12 (9.76%) WAN
3 11 (8.94%) VPN
4 10 (8.13%) BGP
5 9 (7.32%) MPLS
6 8 (6.50%) DNS
7 6 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (4.88%) VLAN
8 5 (4.07%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (4.07%) OSPF
8 5 (4.07%) SD-WAN
8 5 (4.07%) VSAN
8 5 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.25%) BIG-IP
9 4 (3.25%) IPsec
9 4 (3.25%) Network Security
9 4 (3.25%) SNMP
9 4 (3.25%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.25%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.81%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (7.32%) GitLab
2 8 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.07%) Git
4 3 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.63%) JIRA
6 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.81%) Gradle
6 1 (0.81%) JUnit
6 1 (0.81%) LSMW
6 1 (0.81%) Maven
6 1 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.81%) Selenium
6 1 (0.81%) Snyk
6 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 16 (13.01%) Finance
2 14 (11.38%) Public Sector
2 14 (11.38%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.32%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.69%) Legal
6 5 (4.07%) Banking
7 4 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Military
9 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Billing
10 1 (0.81%) Electronics
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 49 (39.84%) Architect
2 18 (14.63%) Lead
2 18 (14.63%) Senior
3 17 (13.82%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (8.94%) Consultant
4 11 (8.94%) Lead Architect
4 11 (8.94%) Network Architect
4 11 (8.94%) Project Manager
5 10 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Technical Architect
6 9 (7.32%) VMware Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) DV Cleared Project Manager
7 8 (6.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Technical Manager
7 8 (6.50%) Technical Project Manager
8 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Manager
8 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 7 (5.69%) Security Consultant
9 6 (4.88%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.32%) RESTful
2 8 (6.50%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (3.25%) NETCONF
3 4 (3.25%) OpenConfig
3 4 (3.25%) REST
3 4 (3.25%) RESTCONF
3 4 (3.25%) YANG
4 3 (2.44%) SOAP
5 2 (1.63%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (1.63%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.63%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (1.63%) Next.js
5 2 (1.63%) Node.js
5 2 (1.63%) React
6 1 (0.81%) JSON
6 1 (0.81%) Kafka
6 1 (0.81%) Web Services
6 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (24.39%) Data Centre
2 23 (18.70%) Public Cloud
3 16 (13.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (11.38%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.88%) Operational Technology
7 5 (4.07%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (4.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.25%) PKI
9 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.81%) CESG
11 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.81%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.81%) IoT
11 1 (0.81%) Life Science
11 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.82%) Linux
2 9 (7.32%) Windows
3 5 (4.07%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.25%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (2.44%) AIX
5 3 (2.44%) Debian
5 3 (2.44%) Solaris
5 3 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (25.20%) Agile
1 31 (25.20%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (23.58%) CI/CD
2 29 (23.58%) DevOps
3 27 (21.95%) Containerisation
4 22 (17.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (17.89%) Migration
4 22 (17.89%) Technical Leadership
5 21 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (13.82%) Threat Modelling
8 15 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (12.20%) Roadmaps
9 14 (11.38%) Architecture Governance
9 14 (11.38%) Microservices
9 14 (11.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (10.57%) Project Delivery
10 13 (10.57%) Zero Trust
11 12 (9.76%) Business Continuity
11 12 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.45%) Python
2 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.69%) Bash
3 7 (5.69%) Go
4 5 (4.07%) Java
5 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.44%) SQL
6 2 (1.63%) Ruby
7 1 (0.81%) Bicep
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) Perl
7 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (53.66%) Security Cleared
2 36 (29.27%) DV Cleared
3 29 (23.58%) SC Cleared
4 22 (17.89%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (12.20%) CISSP
6 12 (9.76%) CISM
6 12 (9.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (8.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 10 (8.13%) CCSP
7 10 (8.13%) CEH
7 10 (8.13%) OSCP
8 8 (6.50%) CCNP
8 8 (6.50%) Degree
9 7 (5.69%) CCIE
10 4 (3.25%) JNCIE
10 4 (3.25%) VCAP
11 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.44%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.44%) PMP
11 3 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.76%) NIST
2 11 (8.94%) NCSC
3 10 (8.13%) PCI DSS
4 9 (7.32%) COBIT
5 3 (2.44%) PMO
5 3 (2.44%) SLA
6 2 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.63%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.81%) GxP
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.81%) RMADS
System Software
1 17 (13.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (13.01%) Docker
3 15 (12.20%) VMware NSX
4 7 (5.69%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.88%) vSphere
6 5 (4.07%) Active Directory
7 3 (2.44%) Ceph
7 3 (2.44%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.44%) KVM
7 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.63%) NFS
8 2 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.81%) GPFS
9 1 (0.81%) Lustre
9 1 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 34 (27.64%) Kubernetes
2 31 (25.20%) Terraform
3 27 (21.95%) Ansible
4 8 (6.50%) Grafana
4 8 (6.50%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.50%) Puppet
5 7 (5.69%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.69%) vCenter Server
6 5 (4.07%) Argo
7 3 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.63%) Consul
8 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.63%) SCCM
8 2 (1.63%) SELinux
9 1 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) logstash
9 1 (0.81%) Packer
9 1 (0.81%) Salt
9 1 (0.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.81%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (23.58%) VMware
2 15 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.94%) Cisco
4 10 (8.13%) F5
4 10 (8.13%) Google
4 10 (8.13%) SAP
5 8 (6.50%) Splunk
6 7 (5.69%) Oracle
6 7 (5.69%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.07%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.07%) Juniper
8 4 (3.25%) NetApp
8 4 (3.25%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.44%) Ariba
9 3 (2.44%) Denodo
9 3 (2.44%) Talend
10 2 (1.63%) Citrix
10 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.63%) Veeam
11 1 (0.81%) Huawei