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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 397 459
Rank change year-on-year -90 +62 -42
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 152 102 73
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.37% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 1.03% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 69 62
10th Percentile £413 £382 -
25th Percentile £506 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.88% -2.18%
75th Percentile £687 £688 £608
90th Percentile £750 £775 £668
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £535
% change year-on-year +4.35% +7.48% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.50 - -
Median hourly rate £31.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.00 - £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 15,676 9,885 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.86% 36.05% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,483 6,206 6,158
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £409 £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 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 498 400
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.21 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.38 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.81% -43.54% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.79 £57.57 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.88 £29.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.39% -41.00% +12.36%

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 September 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
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 September 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 -59 60 £600 -7.69% 79
North of England -49 35 £550 +29.41% 26
Yorkshire -19 27 £550 - 7
South East -65 22 £626 +25.10% 23
West Midlands -41 14 £672 +16.91% 5
Midlands -44 14 £672 +16.91% 11
East of England -24 9 £549 - 6
South West -41 8 £575 -2.13% 28
North West -56 8 £650 +52.94% 16
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 10 (6.58%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) IIS
3 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.66%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (6.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.66%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.66%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.66%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (30.26%) AWS
2 41 (26.97%) Azure
3 29 (19.08%) GCP
4 17 (11.18%) GitHub
4 17 (11.18%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (9.87%) OpenShift
6 12 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (6.58%) Datadog
7 10 (6.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 10 (6.58%) IaaS
8 6 (3.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.29%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.97%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (1.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.87%) WAN
2 14 (9.21%) LAN
3 13 (8.55%) Firewall
4 12 (7.89%) BGP
5 11 (7.24%) VPN
6 9 (5.92%) DNS
6 9 (5.92%) TCP/IP
7 8 (5.26%) MPLS
8 7 (4.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (3.95%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.95%) VLAN
9 6 (3.95%) VSAN
10 5 (3.29%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.63%) BIG-IP
11 4 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (2.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (2.63%) IPsec
11 4 (2.63%) OSPF
11 4 (2.63%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.63%) MySQL
2 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.89%) GitLab
3 11 (7.24%) Git
4 3 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.66%) Gradle
5 1 (0.66%) JIRA
5 1 (0.66%) JUnit
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
5 1 (0.66%) Postman
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
5 1 (0.66%) Snyk
5 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 21 (13.82%) Finance
2 19 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.55%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.92%) Banking
5 8 (5.26%) Legal
5 8 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Law
8 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Police
9 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.66%) Automotive
9 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.66%) Local Government
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (38.82%) Architect
2 32 (21.05%) Senior
3 22 (14.47%) Cloud Architect
4 15 (9.87%) Project Manager
5 14 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (9.21%) Lead
6 13 (8.55%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (7.89%) Senior Architect
8 11 (7.24%) Technical Manager
8 11 (7.24%) Technical Project Manager
9 10 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Network Architect
10 9 (5.92%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 9 (5.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) VMware Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Consultant
11 8 (5.26%) DV Cleared Project Manager
11 8 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 7 (4.61%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (27.63%) Terraform
2 17 (11.18%) Kafka
3 9 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.29%) Pulumi
4 5 (3.29%) RESTful
5 4 (2.63%) NETCONF
5 4 (2.63%) OpenConfig
5 4 (2.63%) RESTCONF
5 4 (2.63%) YANG
6 3 (1.97%) Middleware
6 3 (1.97%) REST
7 2 (1.32%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (1.32%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.32%) Next.js
7 2 (1.32%) Node.js
7 2 (1.32%) OAuth
7 2 (1.32%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.32%) React
7 2 (1.32%) SOAP
7 2 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (23.03%) Data Centre
2 27 (17.76%) Public Cloud
3 24 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (15.13%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (10.53%) Onboarding
6 15 (9.87%) Product Ownership
7 14 (9.21%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (3.29%) PKI
9 4 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.32%) Clustering
11 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.66%) Grid Computing
12 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.66%) Life Science
12 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.42%) Linux
2 10 (6.58%) Windows
3 6 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.95%) Unix
3 6 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.29%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (1.97%) AIX
5 3 (1.97%) Debian
5 3 (1.97%) Solaris
5 3 (1.97%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 56 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (24.34%) Technical Leadership
4 35 (23.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (21.71%) DevOps
6 32 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (19.74%) Configuration Management
7 30 (19.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 29 (19.08%) Observability
9 28 (18.42%) Agile
9 28 (18.42%) Roadmaps
10 27 (17.76%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (17.11%) Microservices
11 26 (17.11%) Migration
12 23 (15.13%) Capacity Planning
13 22 (14.47%) Containerisation
13 22 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (13.82%) Architectural Patterns
15 20 (13.16%) Data Protection
15 20 (13.16%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.05%) Python
2 10 (6.58%) Go
3 9 (5.92%) Bash
4 8 (5.26%) C
4 8 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.61%) C++
5 7 (4.61%) Java
5 7 (4.61%) Perl
6 5 (3.29%) Bicep
7 4 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.32%) C#
8 2 (1.32%) Ruby
9 1 (0.66%) Korn
9 1 (0.66%) Scala
9 1 (0.66%) SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 39 (25.66%) DV Cleared
3 22 (14.47%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (8.55%) CISSP
5 13 (8.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (5.26%) CISM
7 7 (4.61%) Degree
8 6 (3.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.95%) CCIE
8 6 (3.95%) CCNP
8 6 (3.95%) CCSP
8 6 (3.95%) CEH
8 6 (3.95%) OSCP
9 4 (2.63%) JNCIE
9 4 (2.63%) VCAP
10 3 (1.97%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.97%) PMP
10 3 (1.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.58%) NCSC
2 7 (4.61%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.95%) COBIT
3 6 (3.95%) NIST
4 3 (1.97%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (1.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.32%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.32%) PMO
6 1 (0.66%) GxP
6 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (24.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (11.18%) VMware NSX
3 15 (9.87%) Docker
4 9 (5.92%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (4.61%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.29%) Ceph
6 5 (3.29%) KVM
6 5 (3.29%) vSphere
7 3 (1.97%) Active Directory
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.32%) NFS
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.66%) GPFS
9 1 (0.66%) Lustre
9 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 59 (38.82%) Kubernetes
2 36 (23.68%) Ansible
3 17 (11.18%) Puppet
4 16 (10.53%) Progress Chef
5 14 (9.21%) Prometheus
6 13 (8.55%) Grafana
7 7 (4.61%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.29%) Argo
9 2 (1.32%) Consul
9 2 (1.32%) SELinux
10 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.66%) Kibana
10 1 (0.66%) logstash
10 1 (0.66%) Podman
10 1 (0.66%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.66%) Salt
10 1 (0.66%) SCOM
10 1 (0.66%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 53 (34.87%) VMware
2 23 (15.13%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.87%) Cisco
4 12 (7.89%) Google
5 11 (7.24%) SAP
6 10 (6.58%) Splunk
7 9 (5.92%) SaltStack
8 8 (5.26%) F5
9 7 (4.61%) Palo Alto
9 7 (4.61%) Red Hat
10 5 (3.29%) Ariba
10 5 (3.29%) Juniper
10 5 (3.29%) NetApp
10 5 (3.29%) Oracle
11 4 (2.63%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.63%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.32%) Citrix
13 2 (1.32%) Databricks
13 2 (1.32%) Dell