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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 394 427
Rank change year-on-year -75 +33 -93
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 118 85 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 1.02% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 55 104
10th Percentile £456 £380 £463
25th Percentile £510 £547 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £615 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +14.31% -17.23%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £638
90th Percentile £698 £765 £688
UK median daily rate £578 £615 £538
% change year-on-year -6.02% +14.31% -12.52%
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 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.71%

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 13,088 8,307 11,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.46% 34.14% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,292 5,439 7,516
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 322 825
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.40 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £46.23 £33.91 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.33% +13.03% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.15 £84.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +8.33% +33.42%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -72 36 £650 +5.69% 13
North of England -61 28 £566 +40.67% 8
North West -27 21 £581 +44.53% 7
South East -33 19 £556 +17.11% 13
South West -25 10 £529 -26.05% 3
West Midlands - 9 £653 - 1
Midlands - 9 £653 - 2
East of England -34 8 £475 -20.50% 1
Yorkshire -53 7 £525 -22.79% 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 12 (10.17%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.54%) SAS
3 2 (1.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Weka
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.59%) AWS
2 38 (32.20%) Azure
3 21 (17.80%) GCP
4 15 (12.71%) GitHub
5 11 (9.32%) OpenShift
6 10 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.39%) Nutanix
9 4 (3.39%) SaaS
10 3 (2.54%) PaaS
11 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.69%) Datadog
11 2 (1.69%) IaaS
11 2 (1.69%) OCI
11 2 (1.69%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.86%) Firewall
2 9 (7.63%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.93%) DNS
4 6 (5.08%) VPN
5 5 (4.24%) DHCP
5 5 (4.24%) VSAN
6 4 (3.39%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.69%) BGP
7 2 (1.69%) Calico
7 2 (1.69%) LAN
7 2 (1.69%) Network Security
7 2 (1.69%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.69%) WAN
8 1 (0.85%) 5G
8 1 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.85%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.85%) MPLS
8 1 (0.85%) NGFW
8 1 (0.85%) OSPF
8 1 (0.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) GitLab
2 7 (5.93%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.08%) Git
4 3 (2.54%) JIRA
5 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.69%) RStudio
6 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.85%) Gradle
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) LSMW
6 1 (0.85%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) Postman
6 1 (0.85%) Selenium
6 1 (0.85%) Snyk
6 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 15 (12.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.32%) Finance
2 11 (9.32%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.24%) Banking
5 3 (2.54%) Billing
5 3 (2.54%) Military
6 2 (1.69%) Law
6 2 (1.69%) Social Science
6 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.85%) Advertising
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Electronics
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (33.90%) Architect
2 16 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (13.56%) Senior
3 13 (11.02%) Lead
4 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.47%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Lead Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Security Architect
9 6 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (5.08%) Principal Architect
9 6 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) Security Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.39%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) RESTful
2 5 (4.24%) REST
2 5 (4.24%) SAML
3 3 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.54%) OAuth
3 3 (2.54%) OpenID
4 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.69%) SOAP
4 2 (1.69%) Spring
4 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.85%) JSON
5 1 (0.85%) Kafka
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.25%) Public Cloud
2 15 (12.71%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.63%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.08%) Operational Technology
4 6 (5.08%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (4.24%) e-Learning
5 5 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.24%) PKI
6 4 (3.39%) Grid Computing
6 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.85%) CESG
9 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.85%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.85%) IoT
9 1 (0.85%) Replication
9 1 (0.85%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Linux
2 10 (8.47%) Windows
3 8 (6.78%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.39%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (3.39%) VMS
4 4 (3.39%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.69%) AIX
5 2 (1.69%) Debian
5 2 (1.69%) Solaris
6 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (36.44%) DevOps
2 40 (33.90%) CI/CD
3 30 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (19.49%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (18.64%) Agile
7 21 (17.80%) Containerisation
8 17 (14.41%) Migration
8 17 (14.41%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (12.71%) Threat Modelling
10 14 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (11.02%) Mentoring
11 13 (11.02%) Observability
12 12 (10.17%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (9.32%) Roadmaps
14 10 (8.47%) Architectural Design
14 10 (8.47%) Microservices
14 10 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.17%) Python
2 10 (8.47%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.78%) Bash
4 5 (4.24%) Java
5 4 (3.39%) SQL
6 2 (1.69%) Go
6 2 (1.69%) Ruby
7 1 (0.85%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.85%) C++
7 1 (0.85%) Perl
7 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (42.37%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.02%) DV Cleared
4 12 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (7.63%) CISM
5 9 (7.63%) CISSP
6 8 (6.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 8 (6.78%) Degree
7 7 (5.93%) CCSP
7 7 (5.93%) CEH
7 7 (5.93%) OSCP
8 6 (5.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (4.24%) AWS Certification
9 5 (4.24%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.39%) CCNP
10 4 (3.39%) IBM Certification
10 4 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.69%) VCAP
13 1 (0.85%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) NIST
2 7 (5.93%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.08%) COBIT
4 5 (4.24%) NCSC
5 3 (2.54%) QA
6 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.69%) PMO
6 2 (1.69%) SLA
7 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.85%) RMADS
System Software
1 24 (20.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.17%) Docker
2 12 (10.17%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (8.47%) VMware NSX
4 9 (7.63%) vSphere
5 8 (6.78%) Active Directory
6 5 (4.24%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.39%) GPFS
7 4 (3.39%) Lustre
7 4 (3.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (31.36%) Kubernetes
2 33 (27.97%) Terraform
3 24 (20.34%) Ansible
4 6 (5.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (4.24%) Argo
5 5 (4.24%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.39%) Puppet
6 4 (3.39%) SCCM
6 4 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.54%) Grafana
7 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.69%) Consul
8 2 (1.69%) Istio
8 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.69%) Rancher
8 2 (1.69%) Salt
9 1 (0.85%) Kibana
9 1 (0.85%) Podman
9 1 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (27.97%) VMware
2 8 (6.78%) Google
3 7 (5.93%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.24%) Cisco
4 5 (4.24%) F5
4 5 (4.24%) SAP
5 4 (3.39%) IBM
5 4 (3.39%) NetApp
5 4 (3.39%) Oracle
5 4 (3.39%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.39%) Veeam
6 3 (2.54%) Arista
6 3 (2.54%) Denodo
6 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.54%) Splunk
6 3 (2.54%) Talend
7 2 (1.69%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.69%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.69%) Wind River
8 1 (0.85%) Huawei