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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 382 413
Rank change year-on-year -89 +31 -80
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 124 90 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 1.08% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 60 106
10th Percentile £450 £418 £463
25th Percentile £502 £535 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £544
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +13.05% -16.31%
75th Percentile £654 £708 £638
90th Percentile £685 £753 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% +11.82% -10.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £42.20 - -
25th Percentile £59.75 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% - -
75th Percentile £111.15 £77.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.99% +7.14% -

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 12,894 8,296 11,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.97% 34.06% 30.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,192 5,451 7,567
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £673
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 656 312 812
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.68 £12.29
25th Percentile £20.79 £22.66 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.50 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year +31.77% +22.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £66.98
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +16.07% +24.53%

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 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -81 37 £643 +4.68% 12
North of England -53 29 £566 +5.01% 6
North West -17 22 £581 +44.53% 2
South East -33 21 £575 +21.05% 23
South West -16 15 £550 -19.56% 8
West Midlands - 8 £656 - 1
Midlands - 8 £656 - 5
Yorkshire -51 7 £525 -22.79% 1
East of England -35 6 £413 -42.71% 2
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 14 (11.29%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.42%) SAS
3 2 (1.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Weka
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.81%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.81%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.06%) AWS
2 39 (31.45%) Azure
3 18 (14.52%) GCP
4 11 (8.87%) GitHub
4 11 (8.87%) OpenShift
5 10 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.03%) SaaS
8 4 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.23%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.23%) PaaS
9 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.61%) IaaS
10 2 (1.61%) OCI
10 2 (1.61%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.81%) npm
11 1 (0.81%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.94%) Firewall
2 12 (9.68%) DNS
3 10 (8.06%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.03%) DHCP
5 4 (3.23%) NetScaler
5 4 (3.23%) VSAN
6 3 (2.42%) Network Security
6 3 (2.42%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (2.42%) VPN
7 2 (1.61%) BGP
7 2 (1.61%) Calico
7 2 (1.61%) LAN
7 2 (1.61%) VXLAN
7 2 (1.61%) WAN
8 1 (0.81%) 5G
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.81%) MPLS
8 1 (0.81%) NGFW
8 1 (0.81%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
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 10 (8.06%) GitLab
2 7 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.84%) Git
4 3 (2.42%) JIRA
5 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.61%) RStudio
6 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.81%) Gradle
6 1 (0.81%) JUnit
6 1 (0.81%) LSMW
6 1 (0.81%) Maven
6 1 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.81%) Selenium
6 1 (0.81%) Snyk
6 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 17 (13.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.06%) Finance
3 10 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.23%) Banking
5 3 (2.42%) Billing
5 3 (2.42%) Military
6 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Law
6 2 (1.61%) Social Science
6 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.81%) Advertising
7 1 (0.81%) Electronics
7 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (34.68%) Architect
2 14 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (9.68%) Lead
3 12 (9.68%) Senior
4 10 (8.06%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (7.26%) Security Architect
5 9 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (7.26%) VMware Engineer
6 8 (6.45%) Lead Architect
7 6 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (4.84%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Principal Architect
8 5 (4.03%) Consultant
8 5 (4.03%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 5 (4.03%) Network Architect
8 5 (4.03%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.23%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 4 (3.23%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.68%) SAML
2 10 (8.06%) OpenID
3 9 (7.26%) OAuth
4 7 (5.65%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.03%) REST
5 5 (4.03%) RESTful
6 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.61%) SOAP
6 2 (1.61%) Spring
6 2 (1.61%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.81%) JSON
7 1 (0.81%) Kafka
7 1 (0.81%) Middleware
7 1 (0.81%) React
7 1 (0.81%) XMPP
7 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.94%) Public Cloud
2 15 (12.10%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.84%) Operational Technology
3 6 (4.84%) PKI
3 6 (4.84%) Replication
3 6 (4.84%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (4.03%) e-Learning
4 5 (4.03%) Grid Computing
4 5 (4.03%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.71%) Windows
2 15 (12.10%) Windows Server
3 14 (11.29%) Linux
4 4 (3.23%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (3.23%) VMS
4 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.61%) AIX
6 2 (1.61%) Debian
6 2 (1.61%) Solaris
6 2 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.81%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.06%) DevOps
2 38 (30.65%) CI/CD
3 28 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (17.74%) Agile
6 21 (16.94%) Migration
7 20 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
8 19 (15.32%) Containerisation
9 17 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (13.71%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (10.48%) Mentoring
12 13 (10.48%) Threat Modelling
13 12 (9.68%) Observability
13 12 (9.68%) Security Architecture
14 11 (8.87%) Roadmaps
14 11 (8.87%) Root Cause Analysis
15 10 (8.06%) Architectural Design
15 10 (8.06%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.71%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.10%) Python
3 10 (8.06%) Bash
4 5 (4.03%) Java
5 4 (3.23%) SQL
6 1 (0.81%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.81%) C#
6 1 (0.81%) Go
6 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.81%) Perl
6 1 (0.81%) Ruby
6 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (45.97%) Security Cleared
2 33 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.71%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.87%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (7.26%) Degree
5 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (6.45%) CISSP
7 7 (5.65%) CISM
8 6 (4.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (4.03%) AWS Certification
9 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
9 5 (4.03%) CCNP
9 5 (4.03%) CCSP
9 5 (4.03%) CEH
9 5 (4.03%) OSCP
9 5 (4.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (3.23%) IBM Certification
10 4 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.61%) CCIE
11 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) NIST
2 5 (4.03%) NCSC
2 5 (4.03%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.23%) COBIT
4 3 (2.42%) QA
5 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.61%) PMO
5 2 (1.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.81%) RMADS
System Software
1 26 (20.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (12.10%) Active Directory
3 13 (10.48%) Docker
4 12 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (7.26%) VMware NSX
6 8 (6.45%) vSphere
7 5 (4.03%) GPFS
7 5 (4.03%) Lustre
7 5 (4.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.61%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.81%) Ceph
10 1 (0.81%) KVM
10 1 (0.81%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 36 (29.03%) Kubernetes
2 29 (23.39%) Terraform
3 21 (16.94%) Ansible
4 12 (9.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (8.06%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.23%) SCCM
6 4 (3.23%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.61%) Argo
7 2 (1.61%) Grafana
7 2 (1.61%) Istio
7 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.61%) Puppet
7 2 (1.61%) Rancher
8 1 (0.81%) Consul
8 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.81%) Kibana
8 1 (0.81%) logstash
8 1 (0.81%) Packer
8 1 (0.81%) Salt
Vendors
1 37 (29.84%) VMware
2 16 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.45%) Google
4 6 (4.84%) Cisco
4 6 (4.84%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.84%) SAP
5 5 (4.03%) F5
6 4 (3.23%) IBM
6 4 (3.23%) NetApp
6 4 (3.23%) Oracle
6 4 (3.23%) Veeam
7 3 (2.42%) Arista
7 3 (2.42%) Denodo
7 3 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.42%) Talend
8 2 (1.61%) Citrix
8 2 (1.61%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.61%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.61%) Splunk
8 2 (1.61%) Wind River