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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 406 442
Rank change year-on-year -84 +36 -15
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 134 109 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.39% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 1.11% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 68 69
10th Percentile £422 £358 -
25th Percentile £540 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £599 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% +11.92% -2.73%
75th Percentile £688 £702 £614
90th Percentile £769 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £600 £595 £531
% change year-on-year +0.84% +12.00% -3.41%
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 15,266 9,798 10,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.48% 35.45% 30.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,367 6,191 6,654
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £679
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 492 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £12.90
25th Percentile £19.49 £18.87 £19.38
Median hourly rate £43.53 £31.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.21% -34.39% +12.28%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +11.23%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -70 54 £600 -14.29% 61
North of England -52 29 £550 +36.82% 32
South East -70 22 £625 +21.95% 12
North West -42 15 £800 +99.00% 19
Yorkshire -27 14 £550 +50.68% 10
Midlands -41 12 £675 +17.30% 11
West Midlands -45 12 £675 -8.54% 7
East of England -13 8 £512 +70.72% 7
South West -51 7 £575 -4.17% 23
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 10 (7.46%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.24%) Apache
3 2 (1.49%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (7.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.75%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.75%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.75%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.34%) AWS
2 36 (26.87%) Azure
3 24 (17.91%) GCP
4 15 (11.19%) GitHub
4 15 (11.19%) OpenShift
5 14 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.72%) IaaS
8 7 (5.22%) Datadog
8 7 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (4.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.24%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.49%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.49%) Azure Stack
12 2 (1.49%) PaaS
12 2 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.45%) Firewall
1 14 (10.45%) LAN
1 14 (10.45%) WAN
2 11 (8.21%) BGP
3 10 (7.46%) VPN
4 9 (6.72%) TCP/IP
5 8 (5.97%) MPLS
6 7 (5.22%) DNS
7 6 (4.48%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (4.48%) VLAN
7 6 (4.48%) VSAN
8 5 (3.73%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (3.73%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.99%) BIG-IP
9 4 (2.99%) IPsec
9 4 (2.99%) OSPF
9 4 (2.99%) SNMP
9 4 (2.99%) TACACS
9 4 (2.99%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.99%) MySQL
2 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (10.45%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.21%) Git
3 9 (6.72%) GitLab
4 3 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.49%) JIRA
6 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.75%) Gradle
6 1 (0.75%) JUnit
6 1 (0.75%) LSMW
6 1 (0.75%) Maven
6 1 (0.75%) Postman
6 1 (0.75%) Selenium
6 1 (0.75%) Snyk
6 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 18 (13.43%) Finance
1 18 (13.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.45%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.72%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.97%) Legal
5 5 (3.73%) Banking
6 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.49%) Law
7 2 (1.49%) Military
7 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Police
8 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.75%) Automotive
8 1 (0.75%) Billing
8 1 (0.75%) Electronics
8 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (34.33%) Architect
2 21 (15.67%) Lead
2 21 (15.67%) Senior
3 14 (10.45%) Project Manager
4 13 (9.70%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (8.21%) Consultant
5 11 (8.21%) Lead Architect
5 11 (8.21%) Network Architect
6 10 (7.46%) Technical Manager
6 10 (7.46%) Technical Project Manager
7 9 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) Security Architect
8 8 (5.97%) DV Cleared Project Manager
8 8 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Technical Architect
8 8 (5.97%) VMware Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Infrastructure Manager
9 7 (5.22%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 7 (5.22%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (6.72%) RESTful
2 4 (2.99%) NETCONF
2 4 (2.99%) OpenConfig
2 4 (2.99%) REST
2 4 (2.99%) RESTCONF
2 4 (2.99%) YANG
3 3 (2.24%) Kafka
3 3 (2.24%) Middleware
3 3 (2.24%) SOAP
4 2 (1.49%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (1.49%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.49%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (1.49%) Next.js
4 2 (1.49%) Node.js
4 2 (1.49%) React
5 1 (0.75%) JSON
5 1 (0.75%) Web Services
5 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.63%) Data Centre
2 24 (17.91%) Public Cloud
3 20 (14.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (11.19%) Cloud Native
5 10 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.48%) Operational Technology
7 5 (3.73%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.99%) PKI
8 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.75%) Industry 4.0
11 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.75%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.90%) Linux
2 9 (6.72%) Windows
3 6 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.73%) Unix
4 5 (3.73%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.99%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (2.24%) AIX
6 3 (2.24%) Debian
6 3 (2.24%) Solaris
6 3 (2.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.49%) VMS
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.85%) CI/CD
2 39 (29.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (23.88%) Agile
4 30 (22.39%) DevOps
5 27 (20.15%) Technical Leadership
6 26 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (18.66%) Containerisation
7 25 (18.66%) Migration
8 24 (17.91%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (12.69%) Roadmaps
10 17 (12.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (12.69%) Threat Modelling
11 15 (11.19%) Microservices
12 14 (10.45%) Architecture Governance
12 14 (10.45%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (9.70%) Configuration Management
13 13 (9.70%) Data Protection
13 13 (9.70%) Observability
13 13 (9.70%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.40%) Python
2 9 (6.72%) Bash
3 8 (5.97%) Go
4 7 (5.22%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.48%) C++
5 6 (4.48%) Java
5 6 (4.48%) Perl
6 5 (3.73%) C
7 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.24%) SQL
9 2 (1.49%) Bicep
9 2 (1.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.75%) Korn
10 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (46.27%) Security Cleared
2 37 (27.61%) DV Cleared
3 25 (18.66%) SC Cleared
4 20 (14.93%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (12.69%) CISSP
6 13 (9.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (8.96%) CISM
8 10 (7.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (7.46%) CCSP
8 10 (7.46%) CEH
8 10 (7.46%) OSCP
9 8 (5.97%) Degree
10 6 (4.48%) CCIE
10 6 (4.48%) CCNP
11 5 (3.73%) VCAP
12 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (2.99%) JNCIE
13 3 (2.24%) PMI Certification
13 3 (2.24%) PMP
13 3 (2.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.21%) NCSC
1 11 (8.21%) NIST
1 11 (8.21%) PCI DSS
2 9 (6.72%) COBIT
3 3 (2.24%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (2.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (2.24%) PMO
4 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.49%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.49%) SLA
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) GxP
5 1 (0.75%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (15.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (12.69%) Docker
3 16 (11.94%) VMware NSX
4 10 (7.46%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.48%) vSphere
6 5 (3.73%) Ceph
6 5 (3.73%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.73%) KVM
7 3 (2.24%) Active Directory
8 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.49%) NFS
8 2 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.75%) GPFS
9 1 (0.75%) Lustre
9 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 41 (30.60%) Kubernetes
2 34 (25.37%) Terraform
3 31 (23.13%) Ansible
4 13 (9.70%) Puppet
5 12 (8.96%) Progress Chef
6 10 (7.46%) Prometheus
7 9 (6.72%) Grafana
8 8 (5.97%) vCenter Server
9 5 (3.73%) Argo
10 2 (1.49%) Consul
10 2 (1.49%) SELinux
11 1 (0.75%) Cilium
11 1 (0.75%) Kibana
11 1 (0.75%) logstash
11 1 (0.75%) Packer
11 1 (0.75%) Podman
11 1 (0.75%) Salt
11 1 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (24.63%) VMware
2 19 (14.18%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.21%) Cisco
3 11 (8.21%) SAP
4 10 (7.46%) Google
4 10 (7.46%) Splunk
5 8 (5.97%) F5
5 8 (5.97%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.73%) Juniper
6 5 (3.73%) Oracle
6 5 (3.73%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.73%) SaltStack
7 4 (2.99%) Ariba
7 4 (2.99%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.99%) NetApp
7 4 (2.99%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.24%) Dell
9 2 (1.49%) Citrix
9 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.75%) Talend