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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 413 460
Rank change year-on-year -88 +47 -63
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 124 99 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.36% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 1.04% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 62 74
10th Percentile £463 £358 -
25th Percentile £549 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £599 £536
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +11.66% -10.63%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £608
90th Percentile £778 £775 £684
UK median daily rate £600 £595 £535
% change year-on-year +0.84% +11.21% -6.96%
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 15,004 9,564 10,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.28% 34.86% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 6,038 6,938
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £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 £542
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 822 481 623
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.71 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.39% -27.31% +11.23%
75th Percentile £71.00 £60.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £86.23 £80.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.89%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -72 44 £625 -3.85% 37
North of England -63 24 £625 +59.03% 11
South East -66 22 £581 +10.67% 15
West Midlands -38 17 £671 -25.44% 6
Midlands -38 17 £671 -9.02% 10
North West -44 16 £750 +86.57% 8
East of England -14 8 £512 +42.27% 3
Yorkshire -34 8 £525 +43.84% 1
South West -36 7 £575 -2.13% 8
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 (8.06%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.42%) Apache
2 3 (2.42%) SAS
3 2 (1.61%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.81%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.23%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.81%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (5.65%) 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 47 (37.90%) AWS
2 42 (33.87%) Azure
3 22 (17.74%) GCP
4 15 (12.10%) GitHub
5 14 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (11.29%) OpenShift
6 10 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.65%) Datadog
7 7 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (4.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.61%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.61%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.61%) IaaS
10 2 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.61%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.48%) Firewall
2 12 (9.68%) LAN
2 12 (9.68%) WAN
3 10 (8.06%) TCP/IP
3 10 (8.06%) VPN
4 9 (7.26%) BGP
5 8 (6.45%) MPLS
6 7 (5.65%) DNS
7 6 (4.84%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (4.84%) VLAN
8 5 (4.03%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (4.03%) SD-WAN
8 5 (4.03%) VSAN
8 5 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.23%) BIG-IP
9 4 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (3.23%) IPsec
9 4 (3.23%) OSPF
9 4 (3.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) MySQL
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.81%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (7.26%) GitLab
1 9 (7.26%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.03%) Git
3 3 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.81%) Gradle
5 1 (0.81%) JUnit
5 1 (0.81%) LSMW
5 1 (0.81%) Maven
5 1 (0.81%) Postman
5 1 (0.81%) Selenium
5 1 (0.81%) Snyk
5 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 15 (12.10%) Finance
1 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
2 14 (11.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.26%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.45%) Legal
5 5 (4.03%) Banking
6 4 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Law
8 2 (1.61%) Military
8 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Police
9 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.81%) Automotive
9 1 (0.81%) Billing
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Local Government
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (40.32%) Architect
2 19 (15.32%) Lead
3 18 (14.52%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (13.71%) Senior
5 12 (9.68%) Project Manager
6 11 (8.87%) Consultant
6 11 (8.87%) Lead Architect
6 11 (8.87%) Network Architect
7 9 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Technical Manager
7 9 (7.26%) Technical Project Manager
7 9 (7.26%) VMware Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) DV Cleared Project Manager
8 8 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Technical Architect
9 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure Manager
9 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 7 (5.65%) Security Architect
9 7 (5.65%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (7.26%) RESTful
2 4 (3.23%) NETCONF
2 4 (3.23%) OpenConfig
2 4 (3.23%) REST
2 4 (3.23%) RESTCONF
2 4 (3.23%) YANG
3 3 (2.42%) SOAP
4 2 (1.61%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (1.61%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.61%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (1.61%) Next.js
4 2 (1.61%) Node.js
4 2 (1.61%) React
5 1 (0.81%) JSON
5 1 (0.81%) Kafka
5 1 (0.81%) Middleware
5 1 (0.81%) Web Services
5 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.58%) Data Centre
2 23 (18.55%) Public Cloud
3 15 (12.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (11.29%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.84%) Operational Technology
7 5 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (4.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.23%) PKI
9 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.81%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.81%) Industry 4.0
10 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.81%) Replication
10 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.81%) Smart City
10 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.32%) Linux
2 7 (5.65%) Windows
3 4 (3.23%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (2.42%) AIX
4 3 (2.42%) Debian
4 3 (2.42%) Solaris
4 3 (2.42%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.81%) VMS
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.42%) Agile
1 34 (27.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 33 (26.61%) CI/CD
3 30 (24.19%) DevOps
4 28 (22.58%) Containerisation
5 24 (19.35%) Migration
5 24 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (16.94%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (13.71%) Threat Modelling
10 15 (12.10%) Architecture Governance
10 15 (12.10%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (12.10%) Roadmaps
11 14 (11.29%) Microservices
11 14 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (10.48%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (9.68%) Project Delivery
13 12 (9.68%) Zero Trust
14 11 (8.87%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.32%) Python
2 7 (5.65%) Bash
2 7 (5.65%) Go
2 7 (5.65%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.84%) Java
4 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.42%) SQL
6 2 (1.61%) Ruby
7 1 (0.81%) Bicep
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) Perl
7 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (53.23%) Security Cleared
2 36 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 30 (24.19%) SC Cleared
4 21 (16.94%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (12.10%) CISSP
6 12 (9.68%) CISM
6 12 (9.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (8.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 10 (8.06%) CCSP
7 10 (8.06%) CEH
7 10 (8.06%) OSCP
8 8 (6.45%) Degree
9 7 (5.65%) CCNP
10 6 (4.84%) CCIE
11 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (3.23%) JNCIE
11 4 (3.23%) VCAP
12 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
12 3 (2.42%) PMP
12 3 (2.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) NIST
2 10 (8.06%) NCSC
2 10 (8.06%) PCI DSS
3 9 (7.26%) COBIT
4 3 (2.42%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (2.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (2.42%) PMO
4 3 (2.42%) SLA
5 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) GxP
6 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (13.71%) Docker
2 16 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (12.10%) VMware NSX
4 7 (5.65%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.03%) vSphere
6 4 (3.23%) Ceph
6 4 (3.23%) KVM
7 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
7 3 (2.42%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.61%) NFS
9 1 (0.81%) GPFS
9 1 (0.81%) Lustre
9 1 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (29.84%) Kubernetes
2 33 (26.61%) Terraform
3 28 (22.58%) Ansible
4 9 (7.26%) Grafana
4 9 (7.26%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.45%) Puppet
6 7 (5.65%) Progress Chef
6 7 (5.65%) vCenter Server
7 5 (4.03%) Argo
8 2 (1.61%) Consul
8 2 (1.61%) SELinux
9 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) logstash
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.81%) Packer
9 1 (0.81%) Salt
9 1 (0.81%) SCCM
9 1 (0.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.81%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (22.58%) VMware
2 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.06%) Cisco
3 10 (8.06%) SAP
4 9 (7.26%) F5
4 9 (7.26%) Google
4 9 (7.26%) Splunk
5 8 (6.45%) Oracle
6 6 (4.84%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.23%) Juniper
7 4 (3.23%) NetApp
7 4 (3.23%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.42%) Ariba
8 3 (2.42%) Denodo
8 3 (2.42%) Talend
9 2 (1.61%) Citrix
9 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.81%) Ericsson
10 1 (0.81%) Nokia