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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 398 406
Rank change year-on-year -48 +8 -55
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 103 82 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 0.95% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 58 115
10th Percentile £450 £501 £460
25th Percentile £500 £529 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £642 £697 £675
90th Percentile £671 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £573 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -10.20% +15.91% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £61.20 - -
25th Percentile £63.38 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £69.38 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% - -
75th Percentile £73.01 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £73.76 - -
UK median hourly rate £69.38 £75.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.45% +3.57%

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 11,460 8,620 11,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 33.13% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,325 5,201 7,854
10th Percentile £273 £270 £255
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £548 £546
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +0.23% -5.00%
75th Percentile £626 £670 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 245 751
10th Percentile £15.34 £18.51 £13.06
25th Percentile £18.66 £24.18 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.65 £39.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% +20.00% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £84.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.98% +42.83%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -55 34 £633 +5.42% 6
South East -6 23 £525 -19.23% 16
North of England -50 17 £581 -12.30% 6
North West -15 15 £581 -10.62% 4
South West -12 12 £545 -19.85% 2
West Midlands - 6 £575 - 4
Midlands - 6 £575 - 6
East of England -17 5 £413 -44.82%
Yorkshire -59 2 - - 1
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 17 (16.50%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Weka
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.94%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.94%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.97%) Primavera
3 1 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.97%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 33 (32.04%) Azure
2 30 (29.13%) AWS
3 20 (19.42%) GCP
4 14 (13.59%) OpenShift
5 13 (12.62%) GitHub
6 10 (9.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.85%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (4.85%) npm
10 4 (3.88%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.88%) Datadog
10 4 (3.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (3.88%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.88%) PaaS
10 4 (3.88%) Pulumi
10 4 (3.88%) SaaS
11 2 (1.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.50%) Firewall
2 12 (11.65%) DNS
3 11 (10.68%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.85%) DHCP
5 4 (3.88%) NetScaler
5 4 (3.88%) VSAN
6 3 (2.91%) Network Security
7 2 (1.94%) BGP
7 2 (1.94%) Calico
7 2 (1.94%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.94%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.97%) DMZ
8 1 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.97%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.97%) MPLS
8 1 (0.97%) NGFW
8 1 (0.97%) OSPF
8 1 (0.97%) Skype
8 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.97%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.97%) Redis
1 1 (0.97%) SAP HANA
1 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.97%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (14.56%) GitLab
2 11 (10.68%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.74%) Git
4 5 (4.85%) Maven
4 5 (4.85%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.88%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.88%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.88%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.88%) Gradle
5 4 (3.88%) JUnit
5 4 (3.88%) Postman
5 4 (3.88%) RStudio
5 4 (3.88%) Selenium
5 4 (3.88%) Snyk
5 4 (3.88%) webpack
6 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.94%) JIRA
General
1 17 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.71%) Finance
3 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.88%) Social Science
6 2 (1.94%) Billing
6 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Law
7 1 (0.97%) Advertising
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Legal
7 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.97%) Military
7 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (24.27%) Architect
2 19 (18.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (10.68%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (9.71%) Senior
5 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Security Architect
6 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Principal Architect
9 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Automation Architect
10 3 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 3 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.91%) Senior Architect
10 3 (2.91%) Service Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.91%) Service Manager
10 3 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) SAML
2 10 (9.71%) OAuth
2 10 (9.71%) OpenID
3 8 (7.77%) REST
4 7 (6.80%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.88%) JSON
6 4 (3.88%) YAML
7 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.94%) Spring
7 2 (1.94%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.97%) Faiss
8 1 (0.97%) LangChain
8 1 (0.97%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.97%) LDAP
8 1 (0.97%) Middleware
8 1 (0.97%) Ollama
8 1 (0.97%) React
8 1 (0.97%) vLLM
8 1 (0.97%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.50%) Public Cloud
2 11 (10.68%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.80%) Replication
4 6 (5.83%) Grid Computing
5 5 (4.85%) e-Learning
5 5 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.85%) PKI
5 5 (4.85%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.94%) FMCG
9 1 (0.97%) CESG
9 1 (0.97%) Clustering
9 1 (0.97%) CUDA
9 1 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.97%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.97%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.45%) Windows
2 17 (16.50%) Linux
3 16 (15.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.91%) VMS
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.94%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.97%) CentOS
7 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.72%) DevOps
2 39 (37.86%) CI/CD
3 26 (25.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (21.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (16.50%) Containerisation
5 17 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (15.53%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (14.56%) Agile
8 14 (13.59%) Migration
9 12 (11.65%) Mentoring
9 12 (11.65%) Observability
10 11 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (9.71%) Configuration Management
11 10 (9.71%) DevSecOps
11 10 (9.71%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (8.74%) Security Architecture
13 8 (7.77%) Incident Response
13 8 (7.77%) RBAC
13 8 (7.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.33%) Python
2 19 (18.45%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.62%) Bash
4 6 (5.83%) Java
5 5 (4.85%) SQL
6 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.94%) Perl
8 1 (0.97%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.97%) C#
8 1 (0.97%) C++
8 1 (0.97%) Go
8 1 (0.97%) R
8 1 (0.97%) Ruby
8 1 (0.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (46.60%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.48%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.77%) Degree
6 6 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.88%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.88%) CCNP
7 4 (3.88%) CISSP
7 4 (3.88%) IBM Certification
7 4 (3.88%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.94%) CCIE
8 2 (1.94%) CISM
8 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.94%) GIAC
9 1 (0.97%) CCNA
9 1 (0.97%) MCSE
9 1 (0.97%) OCP
9 1 (0.97%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) NCSC
2 3 (2.91%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.97%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.97%) P3O
4 1 (0.97%) RMADS
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (26.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (15.53%) Active Directory
2 16 (15.53%) Docker
3 14 (13.59%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.80%) vSphere
5 6 (5.83%) GPFS
5 6 (5.83%) Lustre
5 6 (5.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (4.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (3.88%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.94%) UAG
9 1 (0.97%) Ceph
9 1 (0.97%) KVM
9 1 (0.97%) QEMU
9 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (38.83%) Kubernetes
2 32 (31.07%) Terraform
3 24 (23.30%) Ansible
4 14 (13.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (10.68%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (5.83%) Puppet
7 5 (4.85%) Grafana
7 5 (4.85%) Prometheus
8 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.88%) Podman
8 4 (3.88%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.88%) Rancher
8 4 (3.88%) SCCM
9 2 (1.94%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.94%) Istio
9 2 (1.94%) Salt
10 1 (0.97%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.97%) vRealize
10 1 (0.97%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 35 (33.98%) VMware
2 16 (15.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.80%) Google
3 7 (6.80%) SAP
4 6 (5.83%) Cisco
4 6 (5.83%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.83%) Splunk
5 5 (4.85%) F5
5 5 (4.85%) Veeam
6 4 (3.88%) IBM
7 3 (2.91%) Arista
8 2 (1.94%) Ariba
8 2 (1.94%) NetIQ
8 2 (1.94%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.94%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.94%) Wind River
9 1 (0.97%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.97%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.97%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow