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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 416 449
Rank change year-on-year -66 +33 -81
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 121 80 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 0.92% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 48 90
10th Percentile £463 £358 £463
25th Percentile £521 £402 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £598 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% +11.37% -14.16%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £605
90th Percentile £777 £779 £688
UK median daily rate £600 £585 £538
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.74% -10.33%
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 14,223 8,696 11,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.74% 34.72% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 5,588 7,289
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -1.04% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 399 846
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.15
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -8.42% +64.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.03 £81.35 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.41 £36.00
% change year-on-year +31.13% -9.97% +60.11%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -77 40 £625 -3.85% 9
North of England -60 29 £581 +51.30% 7
North West -36 21 £581 +51.30% 4
South East -50 19 £650 +44.44% 9
South West -27 11 £550 -6.38% 6
Midlands -45 11 £653 -27.42% 1
West Midlands -47 11 £653 -27.42%
Yorkshire -45 8 £525 +43.84% 1
East of England -23 7 £549 +30.79%
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 4 (3.31%) Apache
1 4 (3.31%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.48%) SAS
3 2 (1.65%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.02%) AWS
2 40 (33.06%) Azure
3 24 (19.83%) GCP
4 11 (9.09%) GitHub
5 10 (8.26%) OpenShift
6 9 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (3.31%) Datadog
9 4 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.65%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.65%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.65%) OCI
11 2 (1.65%) SaaS
11 2 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.40%) Firewall
2 10 (8.26%) VPN
3 8 (6.61%) DNS
3 8 (6.61%) LAN
3 8 (6.61%) TCP/IP
3 8 (6.61%) WAN
4 6 (4.96%) BGP
5 5 (4.13%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (4.13%) MPLS
5 5 (4.13%) VLAN
6 4 (3.31%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (3.31%) Network Security
6 4 (3.31%) OSPF
6 4 (3.31%) SD-WAN
6 4 (3.31%) VSAN
7 3 (2.48%) BIG-IP
7 3 (2.48%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (2.48%) DHCP
7 3 (2.48%) IPsec
7 3 (2.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.31%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.83%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (6.61%) GitLab
2 5 (4.13%) Git
2 5 (4.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.31%) JIRA
4 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.83%) LSMW
4 1 (0.83%) RStudio
4 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (12.40%) Public Sector
2 14 (11.57%) Finance
3 13 (10.74%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.13%) Banking
5 5 (4.13%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.31%) Legal
7 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Military
8 2 (1.65%) Billing
8 2 (1.65%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Electronics
9 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 42 (34.71%) Architect
2 19 (15.70%) Senior
3 16 (13.22%) Lead
4 13 (10.74%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.26%) Lead Architect
7 9 (7.44%) VMware Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Project Manager
8 8 (6.61%) Technical Architect
9 7 (5.79%) Consultant
9 7 (5.79%) Network Architect
9 7 (5.79%) Security Architect
9 7 (5.79%) Security Consultant
9 7 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (4.96%) DV Cleared Project Manager
10 6 (4.96%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.44%) RESTful
2 5 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.48%) REST
4 2 (1.65%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (1.65%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.65%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (1.65%) Next.js
4 2 (1.65%) Node.js
4 2 (1.65%) OAuth
4 2 (1.65%) React
4 2 (1.65%) SAML
4 2 (1.65%) SOAP
5 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.83%) Kafka
5 1 (0.83%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.83%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.83%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.83%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.66%) Data Centre
2 17 (14.05%) Public Cloud
3 13 (10.74%) Cloud Native
3 13 (10.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.96%) Operational Technology
4 6 (4.96%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.13%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (4.13%) e-Learning
6 4 (3.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (3.31%) PKI
7 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.65%) Replication
9 1 (0.83%) CESG
9 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.83%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.74%) Linux
2 9 (7.44%) Windows
3 6 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.31%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (2.48%) AIX
5 3 (2.48%) Debian
5 3 (2.48%) Solaris
5 3 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.93%) CI/CD
1 35 (28.93%) DevOps
2 31 (25.62%) Agile
3 29 (23.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (20.66%) Containerisation
4 25 (20.66%) Technical Leadership
5 23 (19.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (15.70%) Threat Modelling
8 18 (14.88%) Migration
8 18 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (14.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 17 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (12.40%) Microservices
10 15 (12.40%) Observability
10 15 (12.40%) Roadmaps
11 13 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (10.74%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (9.92%) ITIL
13 11 (9.09%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.40%) Python
2 8 (6.61%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.13%) Bash
3 5 (4.13%) Go
4 4 (3.31%) Java
4 4 (3.31%) SQL
5 2 (1.65%) Ruby
6 1 (0.83%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.83%) C++
6 1 (0.83%) Perl
6 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (52.07%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 29 (23.97%) DV Cleared
4 19 (15.70%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (12.40%) CISSP
6 12 (9.92%) CISM
7 11 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (8.26%) CCSP
8 10 (8.26%) CEH
8 10 (8.26%) OSCP
8 10 (8.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (7.44%) Degree
10 7 (5.79%) AWS Certification
10 7 (5.79%) CCNP
11 6 (4.96%) Azure Certification
12 4 (3.31%) IBM Certification
12 4 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (2.48%) PMI Certification
13 3 (2.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) NCSC
1 12 (9.92%) NIST
2 10 (8.26%) PCI DSS
3 9 (7.44%) COBIT
4 3 (2.48%) PMO
5 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.65%) SLA
6 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.83%) RMADS
System Software
1 19 (15.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (10.74%) VMware NSX
3 12 (9.92%) Docker
4 6 (4.96%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.96%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.13%) vSphere
6 3 (2.48%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.65%) Ceph
7 2 (1.65%) KVM
7 2 (1.65%) NFS
7 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.83%) GPFS
8 1 (0.83%) Lustre
8 1 (0.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (27.27%) Terraform
2 31 (25.62%) Kubernetes
3 25 (20.66%) Ansible
4 6 (4.96%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.13%) Argo
5 5 (4.13%) Grafana
5 5 (4.13%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.13%) Puppet
6 4 (3.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.31%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.65%) Consul
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.65%) SCCM
8 2 (1.65%) SELinux
9 1 (0.83%) Kibana
9 1 (0.83%) logstash
9 1 (0.83%) Packer
9 1 (0.83%) Rancher
9 1 (0.83%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (25.62%) VMware
2 14 (11.57%) Google
3 12 (9.92%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.79%) Cisco
4 7 (5.79%) F5
5 6 (4.96%) Palo Alto
6 5 (4.13%) SAP
6 5 (4.13%) Splunk
7 4 (3.31%) IBM
7 4 (3.31%) NetApp
7 4 (3.31%) Oracle
8 3 (2.48%) Denodo
8 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.48%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.48%) Talend
9 2 (1.65%) Ariba
9 2 (1.65%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.65%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.65%) Juniper
9 2 (1.65%) Veeam