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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 390 426
Rank change year-on-year -73 +36 -85
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 101 88 117
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 1.05% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 60 94
10th Percentile £449 £493 £466
25th Percentile £500 £535 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.73% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £651 £691 £650
90th Percentile £671 £750 £698
UK median daily rate £575 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% -14.46%
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 12,050 8,383 11,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.85% 33.50% 30.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,655 5,250 7,652
10th Percentile £290 £275 £258
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
75th Percentile £630 £673 £657
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 595 267 770
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.87 £12.99
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.55 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £35.00 £30.58
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +14.45% +35.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +3.08% +7.76% +34.13%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -61 37 £633 +5.42% 9
North of England -55 17 £581 -12.30% 4
South East -16 16 £531 -18.27% 17
North West -30 15 £581 -10.62% 2
South West -11 11 £540 -21.02% 6
Midlands - 9 £613 - 2
West Midlands - 9 £613 - 2
East of England -25 5 £413 -42.71% 1
Yorkshire -62 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 16 (15.84%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.98%) Apache
3 2 (1.98%) SAS
4 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Weka
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.99%) Primavera
2 1 (0.99%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.99%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.99%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.65%) Azure
2 32 (31.68%) AWS
3 18 (17.82%) GCP
4 13 (12.87%) OpenShift
5 12 (11.88%) GitHub
6 10 (9.90%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.96%) npm
10 4 (3.96%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.96%) PaaS
10 4 (3.96%) SaaS
11 3 (2.97%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.97%) Datadog
11 3 (2.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.97%) Pulumi
12 2 (1.98%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.82%) Firewall
2 11 (10.89%) DNS
2 11 (10.89%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.95%) DHCP
4 4 (3.96%) NetScaler
4 4 (3.96%) VSAN
5 3 (2.97%) BGP
5 3 (2.97%) Network Security
5 3 (2.97%) VXLAN
6 2 (1.98%) Calico
6 2 (1.98%) DMZ
6 2 (1.98%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.98%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.99%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.99%) Internet
7 1 (0.99%) MPLS
7 1 (0.99%) NGFW
7 1 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.99%) VLAN
7 1 (0.99%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.97%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.99%) Redis
2 1 (0.99%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.99%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 13 (12.87%) GitLab
2 10 (9.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.91%) Git
4 4 (3.96%) Maven
4 4 (3.96%) RStudio
4 4 (3.96%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.97%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.97%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.97%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.97%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.97%) Gradle
5 3 (2.97%) JIRA
5 3 (2.97%) JUnit
5 3 (2.97%) Postman
5 3 (2.97%) Selenium
5 3 (2.97%) Snyk
5 3 (2.97%) webpack
6 2 (1.98%) Cucumber
General
1 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (8.91%) Finance
3 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.96%) Social Science
5 3 (2.97%) Billing
6 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Law
7 1 (0.99%) Advertising
7 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.99%) Legal
7 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.99%) Military
7 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (29.70%) Architect
2 19 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Senior
4 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Security Architect
5 7 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.94%) Principal Architect
6 6 (5.94%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Technical Architect
8 3 (2.97%) Automation Architect
8 3 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.97%) Service Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.97%) Service Manager
8 3 (2.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.88%) SAML
2 10 (9.90%) OpenID
3 9 (8.91%) OAuth
4 8 (7.92%) REST
5 7 (6.93%) OAuth2
6 4 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.97%) JSON
7 3 (2.97%) YAML
8 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.98%) SOAP
8 2 (1.98%) Spring
8 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.99%) Faiss
9 1 (0.99%) LangChain
9 1 (0.99%) LangGraph
9 1 (0.99%) Middleware
9 1 (0.99%) Ollama
9 1 (0.99%) React
9 1 (0.99%) vLLM
9 1 (0.99%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.83%) Public Cloud
2 10 (9.90%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.94%) Grid Computing
3 6 (5.94%) Replication
3 6 (5.94%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.95%) e-Learning
4 5 (4.95%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.95%) PKI
5 4 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.98%) FMCG
8 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.99%) CESG
8 1 (0.99%) Clustering
8 1 (0.99%) CUDA
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.99%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.84%) Windows
2 15 (14.85%) Windows Server
3 14 (13.86%) Linux
4 4 (3.96%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.97%) VMS
6 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.98%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.99%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (43.56%) DevOps
2 41 (40.59%) CI/CD
3 28 (27.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (20.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (18.81%) Agile
6 18 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (15.84%) Containerisation
8 14 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (12.87%) Migration
9 13 (12.87%) Observability
10 12 (11.88%) Mentoring
11 11 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (10.89%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (8.91%) Configuration Management
13 9 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (8.91%) DevSecOps
13 9 (8.91%) Roadmaps
14 8 (7.92%) Load Balancing
14 8 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.79%) Python
2 17 (16.83%) PowerShell
3 12 (11.88%) Bash
4 7 (6.93%) Java
5 6 (5.94%) SQL
6 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.98%) Perl
7 1 (0.99%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.99%) C#
7 1 (0.99%) C++
7 1 (0.99%) Go
7 1 (0.99%) R
7 1 (0.99%) Ruby
7 1 (0.99%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (43.56%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.86%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.92%) Degree
6 5 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.96%) CCNP
7 4 (3.96%) CISSP
7 4 (3.96%) IBM Certification
7 4 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.98%) CCIE
8 2 (1.98%) CISM
8 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.98%) GIAC
9 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.99%) MCSE
9 1 (0.99%) OCP
9 1 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) NCSC
2 3 (2.97%) NIST
2 3 (2.97%) QA
3 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.98%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.99%) P3O
4 1 (0.99%) RMADS
4 1 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (22.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (15.84%) Docker
2 16 (15.84%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (14.85%) Active Directory
4 7 (6.93%) vSphere
5 6 (5.94%) GPFS
5 6 (5.94%) Lustre
5 6 (5.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (4.95%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.99%) Ceph
8 1 (0.99%) KVM
8 1 (0.99%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 41 (40.59%) Kubernetes
2 32 (31.68%) Terraform
3 23 (22.77%) Ansible
4 12 (11.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (9.90%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (4.95%) Puppet
7 4 (3.96%) Grafana
7 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.96%) Rancher
7 4 (3.96%) SCCM
8 3 (2.97%) Podman
8 3 (2.97%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.98%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.98%) Istio
9 2 (1.98%) Salt
9 2 (1.98%) VxRail
10 1 (0.99%) Consul
Vendors
1 31 (30.69%) VMware
2 14 (13.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.93%) Google
4 6 (5.94%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.94%) SAP
4 6 (5.94%) Splunk
5 5 (4.95%) Cisco
5 5 (4.95%) F5
5 5 (4.95%) Veeam
6 4 (3.96%) IBM
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle
7 3 (2.97%) Arista
7 3 (2.97%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.97%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.98%) Dell
8 2 (1.98%) Denodo
8 2 (1.98%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.98%) Talend
8 2 (1.98%) Wind River