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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 427 464
Rank change year-on-year -50 +37 -43
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 155 101 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.36% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 1.00% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 70 53
10th Percentile £413 £382 £463
25th Percentile £502 £468 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £686 £684 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £690
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.88% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.50 - -
Median hourly rate £31.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.00 - -

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 15,958 10,130 9,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.28% 36.25% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,607 6,352 6,048
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £644 £649 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,137 513 376
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.15 £15.56
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -47.69% +24.59%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.30 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +11.11%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -62 64 £600 -8.01% 100
North of England -52 36 £550 +29.41% 28
Yorkshire -15 27 £550 - 7
South East -61 22 £626 +25.10% 26
West Midlands -32 13 £675 +17.30% 8
Midlands -44 13 £675 +17.30% 10
East of England -18 10 £585 -4.55% 10
North West -52 9 £500 +17.65% 17
South West -40 6 £563 -6.25% 26
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 (6.45%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.29%) Apache
2 2 (1.29%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (2.58%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Weka
Business Applications
1 14 (9.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.94%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.94%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.94%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.65%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (29.03%) AWS
2 40 (25.81%) Azure
3 29 (18.71%) GCP
4 17 (10.97%) GitHub
4 17 (10.97%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (10.32%) OpenShift
6 12 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (6.45%) Datadog
7 10 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 10 (6.45%) IaaS
8 6 (3.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.23%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.58%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.94%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (1.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.68%) WAN
2 14 (9.03%) LAN
3 12 (7.74%) BGP
3 12 (7.74%) Firewall
4 11 (7.10%) VPN
5 9 (5.81%) DNS
5 9 (5.81%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.16%) MPLS
7 7 (4.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (3.87%) SD-WAN
8 6 (3.87%) VLAN
8 6 (3.87%) VSAN
9 5 (3.23%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.58%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.58%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (2.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (2.58%) IPsec
10 4 (2.58%) OSPF
10 4 (2.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.58%) MySQL
2 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (11.61%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.74%) GitLab
3 11 (7.10%) Git
4 3 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.65%) Gradle
5 1 (0.65%) Hudson
5 1 (0.65%) JIRA
5 1 (0.65%) JUnit
5 1 (0.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.65%) Postman
5 1 (0.65%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) Snyk
5 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 22 (14.19%) Finance
2 21 (13.55%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.10%) Legal
5 9 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.16%) Banking
6 8 (5.16%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.58%) Automotive
7 4 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.94%) Law
9 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Police
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (41.29%) Architect
2 31 (20.00%) Senior
3 23 (14.84%) Cloud Architect
4 15 (9.68%) Project Manager
5 14 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (8.39%) Lead
6 13 (8.39%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (7.74%) Senior Architect
8 11 (7.10%) Technical Manager
8 11 (7.10%) Technical Project Manager
9 10 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.45%) Network Architect
10 9 (5.81%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 9 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (5.81%) VMware Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) DV Cleared Project Manager
11 8 (5.16%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Security Architect
12 7 (4.52%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 7 (4.52%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (27.10%) Terraform
2 18 (11.61%) Kafka
3 9 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.23%) Pulumi
5 4 (2.58%) NETCONF
5 4 (2.58%) OpenConfig
5 4 (2.58%) RESTCONF
5 4 (2.58%) RESTful
5 4 (2.58%) YANG
6 3 (1.94%) Middleware
6 3 (1.94%) REST
7 2 (1.29%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.29%) Next.js
7 2 (1.29%) Node.js
7 2 (1.29%) OAuth
7 2 (1.29%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.29%) React
7 2 (1.29%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (1.29%) SOAP
7 2 (1.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.58%) Data Centre
2 27 (17.42%) Public Cloud
3 25 (16.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (14.84%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (10.32%) Onboarding
6 15 (9.68%) Product Ownership
7 14 (9.03%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.87%) PKI
9 5 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.29%) Clustering
12 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.65%) Grid Computing
13 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.65%) Life Science
13 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.42%) Linux
2 9 (5.81%) Windows
3 6 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.87%) Unix
3 6 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.58%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (1.94%) AIX
5 3 (1.94%) Debian
5 3 (1.94%) Solaris
5 3 (1.94%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (38.06%) CI/CD
2 57 (36.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (23.87%) Technical Leadership
4 35 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (21.29%) DevOps
5 33 (21.29%) Platform Engineering
6 31 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 30 (19.35%) Configuration Management
7 30 (19.35%) Observability
7 30 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 29 (18.71%) Migration
9 27 (17.42%) Agile
10 26 (16.77%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (16.77%) Microservices
11 24 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (14.84%) Capacity Planning
13 21 (13.55%) Architectural Patterns
14 20 (12.90%) Containerisation
14 20 (12.90%) Data Protection
14 20 (12.90%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.65%) Python
2 10 (6.45%) Go
3 9 (5.81%) Bash
4 8 (5.16%) C
4 8 (5.16%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.52%) C++
5 7 (4.52%) Java
5 7 (4.52%) Perl
6 5 (3.23%) Bicep
7 4 (2.58%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.29%) C#
8 2 (1.29%) Ruby
9 1 (0.65%) Korn
9 1 (0.65%) Scala
9 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (36.77%) Security Cleared
2 38 (24.52%) DV Cleared
3 21 (13.55%) SC Cleared
4 15 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (7.74%) CISSP
5 12 (7.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (4.52%) CISM
6 7 (4.52%) Degree
7 6 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.87%) CCIE
7 6 (3.87%) CCNP
8 5 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (3.23%) CCSP
8 5 (3.23%) CEH
8 5 (3.23%) OSCP
9 4 (2.58%) JNCIE
9 4 (2.58%) VCAP
10 3 (1.94%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.94%) PMP
10 3 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.45%) NCSC
2 6 (3.87%) NIST
2 6 (3.87%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.23%) COBIT
4 3 (1.94%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (1.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.29%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.29%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) GxP
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (10.32%) VMware NSX
3 14 (9.03%) Docker
4 8 (5.16%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.87%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.23%) Ceph
6 5 (3.23%) KVM
6 5 (3.23%) vSphere
7 3 (1.94%) Active Directory
8 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.29%) NFS
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.65%) GPFS
9 1 (0.65%) Lustre
9 1 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 60 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 36 (23.23%) Ansible
3 17 (10.97%) Puppet
4 16 (10.32%) Progress Chef
5 14 (9.03%) Prometheus
6 13 (8.39%) Grafana
7 6 (3.87%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.23%) Argo
9 2 (1.29%) Consul
9 2 (1.29%) SELinux
10 1 (0.65%) Cilium
10 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.65%) Kibana
10 1 (0.65%) logstash
10 1 (0.65%) Podman
10 1 (0.65%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.65%) Salt
10 1 (0.65%) SCOM
10 1 (0.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.65%) vMotion
Vendors
1 51 (32.90%) VMware
2 24 (15.48%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.68%) Cisco
3 15 (9.68%) SAP
4 12 (7.74%) Google
5 10 (6.45%) Splunk
6 9 (5.81%) SaltStack
7 8 (5.16%) F5
8 7 (4.52%) Palo Alto
8 7 (4.52%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.87%) Ariba
10 5 (3.23%) Juniper
11 4 (2.58%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.58%) NetApp
11 4 (2.58%) Oracle
11 4 (2.58%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.94%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.29%) Concur
13 2 (1.29%) Databricks
13 2 (1.29%) Dell