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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Private Cloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 347 466
Rank change year-on-year -71 +119 +13
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 117 354 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.70% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 2.08% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 291 248
10th Percentile £463 £461 £444
25th Percentile £475 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% +15.56% +3.21%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £650
90th Percentile £688 £825 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £615 £556
% change year-on-year -12.52% +10.56% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% +61.90%
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% +47.37% -1.55%

All Generic Skills
England

Private Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 17,010 24,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 33.65% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,425 11,824 17,120
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 598 643
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
South West -19 69 £500 -19.35% 11
London -12 18 £600 -17.24% 22
South East +21 15 £638 +50.00% 4
North of England +8 6 £513 -33.87% 9
North West +6 5 £513 -4.65% 7
East of England +12 4 £475 -38.71% 2
West Midlands +14 3 £675 +3.85% 6
Midlands +7 3 £675 +3.85% 6
North East +9 1 £600 -24.95% 1
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 39 (33.33%) Confluence
2 35 (29.91%) SharePoint
2 35 (29.91%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (2.56%) CMS
3 3 (2.56%) Drupal
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.85%) IIS
5 1 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.85%) nginx
5 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.85%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (49.57%) Azure
2 37 (31.62%) Azure Stack
3 17 (14.53%) AWS
4 7 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.27%) AWS Direct Connect
5 5 (4.27%) GCP
5 5 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (3.42%) Datadog
7 3 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.56%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.56%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.56%) Route 53
7 3 (2.56%) Serverless
8 2 (1.71%) GitHub
8 2 (1.71%) IaaS
8 2 (1.71%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 59 (50.43%) Firewall
2 35 (29.91%) BGP
3 19 (16.24%) DNS
4 13 (11.11%) DHCP
5 3 (2.56%) Internet
5 3 (2.56%) LAN
5 3 (2.56%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.56%) SSL
5 3 (2.56%) WAN
5 3 (2.56%) WLAN
6 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.71%) VLAN
6 2 (1.71%) VPN
6 2 (1.71%) VSAN
7 1 (0.85%) Skype
7 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (35.04%) JIRA
2 9 (7.69%) Git
3 8 (6.84%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.27%) GitLab
5 4 (3.42%) Selenium
6 3 (2.56%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.56%) Subversion
7 1 (0.85%) GoCD
7 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.13%) Finance
5 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.56%) Marketing
6 2 (1.71%) Banking
6 2 (1.71%) Electronics
6 2 (1.71%) Legal
6 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) French Language
7 1 (0.85%) Front Office
7 1 (0.85%) German Language
7 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (18.80%) Analyst
2 21 (17.95%) Architect
3 18 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 17 (14.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (14.53%) Microsoft Engineer
5 12 (10.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.40%) SOC Analyst
7 10 (8.55%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Security Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Senior
11 5 (4.27%) Service Analyst
11 5 (4.27%) Service Management Analyst
12 4 (3.42%) Technical Architect
13 2 (1.71%) Network Architect
13 2 (1.71%) Software Engineer
13 2 (1.71%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.56%) LDAP
1 3 (2.56%) Node.js
1 3 (2.56%) RESTful
1 3 (2.56%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.85%) .NET
3 1 (0.85%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.85%) OpenFin
3 1 (0.85%) Playwright
3 1 (0.85%) React
3 1 (0.85%) Reactive Extensions
3 1 (0.85%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (32.48%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.84%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.98%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.42%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.56%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.71%) PKI
7 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (35.90%) Windows
2 7 (5.98%) Linux
3 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.90%) ITIL
2 38 (32.48%) Network Management
3 37 (31.62%) Service Management
4 36 (30.77%) Capacity Management
4 36 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
5 28 (23.93%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (23.93%) ITSM
6 23 (19.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (16.24%) Agile
9 17 (14.53%) Resource Management
10 16 (13.68%) DevOps
10 16 (13.68%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 15 (12.82%) Penetration Testing
12 14 (11.97%) Knowledge Transfer
12 14 (11.97%) Privileged Access Management
13 13 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 11 (9.40%) Backlog Management
15 10 (8.55%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.97%) Python
2 8 (6.84%) Java
3 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.27%) Bash
5 4 (3.42%) Perl
6 3 (2.56%) C
6 3 (2.56%) C++
6 3 (2.56%) Ruby
6 3 (2.56%) SQL
7 1 (0.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 90 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 57 (48.72%) DV Cleared
3 33 (28.21%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.69%) Degree
5 2 (1.71%) VCAP
5 2 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.85%) CISM
6 1 (0.85%) CISSP
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (29.91%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (5.98%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) GRC
3 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (17.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (13.68%) vSphere
3 6 (5.13%) Docker
4 4 (3.42%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.42%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.71%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.85%) KVM
7 1 (0.85%) NFS
7 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (23.08%) SCOM
2 15 (12.82%) vCenter Server
3 12 (10.26%) Kubernetes
4 11 (9.40%) Ansible
4 11 (9.40%) Terraform
5 5 (4.27%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.42%) Puppet
7 3 (2.56%) Nagios
8 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.85%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.85%) Grafana
8 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.85%) Salt
8 1 (0.85%) SCCM
8 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (40.17%) Microsoft
2 35 (29.91%) Atlassian
3 27 (23.08%) VMware
4 6 (5.13%) Palo Alto
5 5 (4.27%) Cisco
6 4 (3.42%) Citrix
6 4 (3.42%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.42%) Splunk
7 3 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.56%) Google
7 3 (2.56%) New Relic
7 3 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.56%) SAP
8 2 (1.71%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.71%) Dell
8 2 (1.71%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (1.71%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (1.71%) Oracle
8 2 (1.71%) Veeam