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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 412 439
Rank change year-on-year -87 +27 -44
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 119 93 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.80% 0.99% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 56 89
10th Percentile £463 £358 £463
25th Percentile £524 £418 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £596 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +10.83% -10.33%
75th Percentile £695 £681 £614
90th Percentile £783 £763 £688
UK median daily rate £600 £595 £538
% change year-on-year +0.84% +10.59% -8.81%
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 14,814 9,440 11,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.11% 34.79% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,210 6,000 7,276
10th Percentile £318 £305 £288
25th Percentile £420 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 466 789
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.47 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.35% -16.33% +15.54%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -13.70% +21.67%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -70 41 £630 -3.08% 14
North of England -61 26 £535 +36.01% 10
South East -62 19 £650 +26.83% 13
North West -39 18 £610 +51.62% 5
Midlands -45 13 £663 -26.33% 12
West Midlands -53 13 £663 -26.33% 6
East of England -15 8 £512 +42.27% 4
South West -32 8 £568 -3.40% 6
Yorkshire -47 8 £525 +43.84% 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 7 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.52%) Apache
2 3 (2.52%) SAS
3 2 (1.68%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.84%) Confluence
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.84%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.84%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.84%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.84%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (37.82%) AWS
2 39 (32.77%) Azure
3 23 (19.33%) GCP
4 13 (10.92%) GitHub
4 13 (10.92%) OpenShift
5 12 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (5.04%) Datadog
7 6 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.68%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.68%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.68%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.84%) OCI
11 1 (0.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.76%) Firewall
2 12 (10.08%) LAN
2 12 (10.08%) TCP/IP
2 12 (10.08%) WAN
3 11 (9.24%) VPN
4 10 (8.40%) BGP
5 9 (7.56%) MPLS
6 8 (6.72%) DNS
7 6 (5.04%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (5.04%) VLAN
8 5 (4.20%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (4.20%) OSPF
8 5 (4.20%) SD-WAN
8 5 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.36%) BIG-IP
9 4 (3.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (3.36%) IPsec
9 4 (3.36%) SNMP
9 4 (3.36%) TACACS
9 4 (3.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.36%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.84%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.84%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (7.56%) GitLab
2 8 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.36%) Git
4 3 (2.52%) JIRA
5 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.84%) LSMW
General
1 17 (14.29%) Finance
2 13 (10.92%) Public Sector
2 13 (10.92%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.56%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.04%) Legal
6 5 (4.20%) Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Military
9 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Advertising
10 1 (0.84%) Billing
10 1 (0.84%) Electronics
10 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.84%) Local Government
10 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (36.97%) Architect
2 18 (15.13%) Lead
3 17 (14.29%) Senior
4 13 (10.92%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.24%) Consultant
5 11 (9.24%) Lead Architect
5 11 (9.24%) Network Architect
5 11 (9.24%) Project Manager
6 10 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (7.56%) Technical Architect
8 8 (6.72%) DV Cleared Project Manager
8 8 (6.72%) Technical Manager
8 8 (6.72%) Technical Project Manager
8 8 (6.72%) VMware Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
9 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 7 (5.88%) Security Consultant
9 7 (5.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) RESTful
2 7 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (3.36%) NETCONF
3 4 (3.36%) OpenConfig
3 4 (3.36%) RESTCONF
3 4 (3.36%) YANG
4 2 (1.68%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (1.68%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.68%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (1.68%) Next.js
4 2 (1.68%) Node.js
4 2 (1.68%) React
4 2 (1.68%) REST
5 1 (0.84%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.84%) Kafka
5 1 (0.84%) OAuth
5 1 (0.84%) SAML
5 1 (0.84%) SOAP
5 1 (0.84%) Spring
5 1 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.21%) Data Centre
2 20 (16.81%) Public Cloud
3 17 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (11.76%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.04%) Operational Technology
7 5 (4.20%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (4.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.36%) PKI
9 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.68%) e-Learning
10 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.84%) CESG
11 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.84%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.84%) IoT
11 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.61%) Linux
2 9 (7.56%) Windows
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.36%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (2.52%) AIX
5 3 (2.52%) Debian
5 3 (2.52%) Solaris
5 3 (2.52%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.73%) DevOps
2 32 (26.89%) CI/CD
3 31 (26.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (25.21%) Agile
5 28 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 22 (18.49%) Technical Leadership
7 21 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (16.81%) Migration
9 17 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
10 16 (13.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 15 (12.61%) Microservices
11 15 (12.61%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (11.76%) Roadmaps
13 13 (10.92%) Project Delivery
13 13 (10.92%) Zero Trust
14 12 (10.08%) Business Continuity
14 12 (10.08%) Disaster Recovery
15 11 (9.24%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.81%) Python
2 9 (7.56%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.88%) Bash
3 7 (5.88%) Go
4 3 (2.52%) Java
4 3 (2.52%) SQL
5 2 (1.68%) Ruby
6 1 (0.84%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.84%) Bicep
6 1 (0.84%) C++
6 1 (0.84%) Perl
6 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 34 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 28 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 22 (18.49%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (11.76%) CISSP
6 11 (9.24%) CISM
6 11 (9.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (8.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 10 (8.40%) CCSP
7 10 (8.40%) CEH
7 10 (8.40%) OSCP
8 9 (7.56%) Degree
9 8 (6.72%) CCNP
10 7 (5.88%) CCIE
11 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
11 4 (3.36%) JNCIE
12 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
12 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (2.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (2.52%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.08%) NIST
2 11 (9.24%) NCSC
3 10 (8.40%) PCI DSS
4 9 (7.56%) COBIT
5 3 (2.52%) PMO
5 3 (2.52%) SLA
6 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.84%) GxP
7 1 (0.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.84%) RMADS
System Software
1 16 (13.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (12.61%) Docker
3 14 (11.76%) VMware NSX
4 6 (5.04%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.20%) Active Directory
5 5 (4.20%) vSphere
6 4 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.52%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.68%) Ceph
8 2 (1.68%) KVM
8 2 (1.68%) NFS
8 2 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.84%) GPFS
9 1 (0.84%) Lustre
9 1 (0.84%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (27.73%) Terraform
2 31 (26.05%) Kubernetes
3 27 (22.69%) Ansible
4 7 (5.88%) Grafana
4 7 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.88%) Puppet
5 6 (5.04%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.04%) vCenter Server
6 5 (4.20%) Argo
7 3 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.68%) Consul
8 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.68%) SCCM
8 2 (1.68%) SELinux
8 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.84%) Kibana
9 1 (0.84%) logstash
9 1 (0.84%) Packer
9 1 (0.84%) Salt
9 1 (0.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 28 (23.53%) VMware
2 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.08%) Google
4 11 (9.24%) Cisco
4 11 (9.24%) F5
5 8 (6.72%) SAP
6 7 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.88%) Splunk
7 5 (4.20%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.20%) Juniper
8 4 (3.36%) NetApp
8 4 (3.36%) Oracle
8 4 (3.36%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.52%) Ariba
9 3 (2.52%) Denodo
9 3 (2.52%) Talend
10 2 (1.68%) Citrix
10 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.68%) Veeam
11 1 (0.84%) Huawei