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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 448 416
Rank change year-on-year +32 -32 +53
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 103 78 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.24% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 0.77% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 67 131
10th Percentile £382 - £413
25th Percentile £468 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £684 £608 £650
90th Percentile £775 £671 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £527 £548
% change year-on-year +9.16% -3.79% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £72.00
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £70.00
% 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 9,986 10,162 13,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.91% 30.84% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,279 6,263 9,542
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £790
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 413 414
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.11 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +71.15%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +16 42 £650 +14.04% 26
South East +36 24 £500 -21.57% 11
North of England -16 15 £425 -29.17% 14
North West +1 13 £425 -28.27% 10
South West -5 12 £588 +16.34% 8
Midlands - 8 £575 - 5
West Midlands - 7 £575 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
East of England +1 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 2
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 11 (10.68%) WebSphere
2 8 (7.77%) Tomcat
3 7 (6.80%) JBoss
3 7 (6.80%) WebLogic
4 5 (4.85%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.91%) Apache
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.94%) Confluence
6 2 (1.94%) nginx
7 1 (0.97%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.97%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (10.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.88%) Primavera
3 2 (1.94%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.94%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.97%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.78%) Azure
2 26 (25.24%) AWS
3 19 (18.45%) OpenShift
4 18 (17.48%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (16.50%) GCP
6 10 (9.71%) SaaS
7 9 (8.74%) IaaS
8 8 (7.77%) PaaS
9 7 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (6.80%) GitHub
10 5 (4.85%) Azure AKS
10 5 (4.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.88%) npm
12 3 (2.91%) Azure Stack
12 3 (2.91%) Datadog
12 3 (2.91%) Pulumi
12 3 (2.91%) SuccessFactors
13 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) Firewall
2 7 (6.80%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.83%) DNS
3 6 (5.83%) SAN
4 5 (4.85%) HTTP
4 5 (4.85%) SSL
5 4 (3.88%) VLAN
5 4 (3.88%) VPN
6 3 (2.91%) Skype
6 3 (2.91%) VSAN
6 3 (2.91%) WAN
7 2 (1.94%) BGP
7 2 (1.94%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.94%) IPsec
7 2 (1.94%) LAN
7 2 (1.94%) Multicast
7 2 (1.94%) OSPF
7 2 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.94%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.97%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.80%) DB2
2 5 (4.85%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.88%) Big Data
4 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.91%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.97%) Power BI
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (19.42%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.50%) Bitbucket
3 15 (14.56%) Git
4 10 (9.71%) GitLab
5 6 (5.83%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (4.85%) Robot Framework
7 4 (3.88%) Maven
8 3 (2.91%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.91%) CircleCI
8 3 (2.91%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.91%) Gradle
8 3 (2.91%) JUnit
8 3 (2.91%) Postman
8 3 (2.91%) Selenium
8 3 (2.91%) Snyk
8 3 (2.91%) webpack
9 2 (1.94%) JIRA
10 1 (0.97%) RStudio
General
1 30 (29.13%) Finance
2 17 (16.50%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Banking
4 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.91%) Legal
8 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Law
8 2 (1.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.97%) Front Office
9 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.97%) Military
9 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Social Science
9 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (25.24%) Architect
2 17 (16.50%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (14.56%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (9.71%) Senior
5 9 (8.74%) Consultant
5 9 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Scrum Master
8 6 (5.83%) Lead
9 5 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) SAP Architect
9 5 (4.85%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (3.88%) Project Planner
10 4 (3.88%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) SAP Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.88%) Security Architect
11 3 (2.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.53%) Middleware
2 11 (10.68%) React
2 11 (10.68%) REST
3 7 (6.80%) RAML
3 7 (6.80%) SOAP
3 7 (6.80%) Web Services
3 7 (6.80%) WSDL
4 5 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.88%) .NET
5 4 (3.88%) EJB
5 4 (3.88%) J2EE
5 4 (3.88%) JSP
5 4 (3.88%) Servlets
5 4 (3.88%) Spring
5 4 (3.88%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET
6 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (2.91%) JSON
6 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Data Centre
2 11 (10.68%) Public Cloud
3 10 (9.71%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.88%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.88%) PKI
6 3 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.91%) Replication
7 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.97%) CMDB
8 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.97%) Derivative
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 27 (26.21%) Linux
2 17 (16.50%) Windows
3 11 (10.68%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.71%) Unix
5 3 (2.91%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.94%) CentOS
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.10%) CI/CD
2 30 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (23.30%) Agile
4 23 (22.33%) Configuration Management
4 23 (22.33%) Containerisation
4 23 (22.33%) Migration
5 20 (19.42%) DevOps
6 19 (18.45%) SDLC
7 18 (17.48%) High Availability
8 17 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (16.50%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (12.62%) Scrum
10 11 (10.68%) Waterfall
11 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (8.74%) Project Delivery
13 8 (7.77%) Microservices
13 8 (7.77%) Roadmaps
13 8 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (7.77%) Test Automation
14 7 (6.80%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.98%) Python
2 29 (28.16%) SQL
3 25 (24.27%) JavaScript
4 23 (22.33%) PowerShell
5 19 (18.45%) Java
6 17 (16.50%) C#
7 5 (4.85%) Go
7 5 (4.85%) Perl
8 4 (3.88%) Bash
9 3 (2.91%) Rust
10 1 (0.97%) Bicep
10 1 (0.97%) R
10 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (47.57%) Security Cleared
2 37 (35.92%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.65%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.71%) Degree
5 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) BC Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) JNCIA
6 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.94%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.97%) CCNA
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.97%) GIAC
7 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.97%) OCP
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.97%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) P3O
2 3 (2.91%) NCSC
3 2 (1.94%) PMO
3 2 (1.94%) SLA
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.97%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (8.74%) Docker
3 8 (7.77%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.91%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.94%) Firmware
6 2 (1.94%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.94%) UAG
6 2 (1.94%) vCloud
6 2 (1.94%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (1.94%) vSphere
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (31.07%) Ansible
2 31 (30.10%) Kubernetes
3 21 (20.39%) Terraform
4 7 (6.80%) Grafana
5 6 (5.83%) Kibana
5 6 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.83%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.91%) OPNET
7 3 (2.91%) Podman
7 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.91%) Puppet
8 2 (1.94%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.94%) vRealize
8 2 (1.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.97%) Argo
9 1 (0.97%) Packer
9 1 (0.97%) Rancher
9 1 (0.97%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (25.24%) VMware
2 19 (18.45%) Microsoft
3 14 (13.59%) Oracle
4 13 (12.62%) F5
4 13 (12.62%) Red Hat
4 13 (12.62%) SAP
5 6 (5.83%) Citrix
6 5 (4.85%) Splunk
7 4 (3.88%) Ariba
7 4 (3.88%) Cisco
7 4 (3.88%) HP
7 4 (3.88%) IBM
8 3 (2.91%) Concur
8 3 (2.91%) Dell
8 3 (2.91%) NetApp
8 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.91%) Veeam
9 2 (1.94%) Google
9 2 (1.94%) Juniper
9 2 (1.94%) NetIQ