Private Cloud Contracts 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 429 339
Rank change year-on-year +29 -90 +135
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 85 113 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.30% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.02% 0.99% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 102 291
10th Percentile £380 £463 £461
25th Percentile £547 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% -17.23% +15.56%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £738
90th Percentile £765 £688 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £538 £615
% change year-on-year +14.31% -12.52% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +47.37%

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 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in England.

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +82 58 £615 -4.09% 47
North of England +26 13 £402 -21.56% 20
North West +22 10 £402 -21.56% 13
East of England +30 4 £598 +25.79% 2
South West -18 4 £715 +43.00% 28
Yorkshire - 3 £680 - 5
South East +33 2 £475 -25.49% 15
Private Cloud
UK

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (10.59%) OpenStack
2 6 (7.06%) JBoss
2 6 (7.06%) Tomcat
2 6 (7.06%) WebSphere
3 5 (5.88%) Apache
3 5 (5.88%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.18%) Camunda
4 1 (1.18%) CMS
4 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.35%) assyst
2 2 (2.35%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.35%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.35%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (2.35%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.18%) SAP LE
3 1 (1.18%) SAP MII
3 1 (1.18%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.18%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.18%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.47%) Azure
2 27 (31.76%) AWS
3 15 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (15.29%) IaaS
5 12 (14.12%) PaaS
6 11 (12.94%) SaaS
7 6 (7.06%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.35%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.35%) GCP
10 1 (1.18%) Akamai
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Network Security
2 4 (4.71%) Firewall
3 3 (3.53%) DNS
3 3 (3.53%) VSAN
4 2 (2.35%) HTTP
4 2 (2.35%) SNMP
4 2 (2.35%) VPN
5 1 (1.18%) 3G
5 1 (1.18%) 4G
5 1 (1.18%) 5G
5 1 (1.18%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.18%) LTE
5 1 (1.18%) MPLS
5 1 (1.18%) SAN
5 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.18%) VLAN
5 1 (1.18%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Big Data
1 5 (5.88%) DB2
2 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.35%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.35%) MySQL
4 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.35%) Redis
4 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (12.94%) Bitbucket
2 7 (8.24%) Git
3 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.53%) GitLab
4 3 (3.53%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.35%) JIRA
6 1 (1.18%) Hudson
6 1 (1.18%) Selenium
6 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.18%) TestNG
General
1 21 (24.71%) Finance
2 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.76%) Banking
4 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.06%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.88%) Retail
7 4 (4.71%) Legal
7 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.53%) Law
9 2 (2.35%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.18%) Billing
10 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (54.12%) Architect
2 19 (22.35%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (14.12%) Consultant
4 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Architect
5 10 (11.76%) Lead
6 8 (9.41%) DevSecOps Architect
6 8 (9.41%) Security Architect
6 8 (9.41%) Senior
6 8 (9.41%) Technical Architect
7 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 7 (8.24%) Security Consultant
8 6 (7.06%) Azure Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (5.88%) Scrum Master
10 4 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) REST
2 8 (9.41%) SOAP
3 6 (7.06%) Spring
3 6 (7.06%) Web Services
4 5 (5.88%) .NET
4 5 (5.88%) CSS
4 5 (5.88%) HTML
4 5 (5.88%) JSP
4 5 (5.88%) RAML
4 5 (5.88%) Servlets
4 5 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 5 (5.88%) WSDL
5 4 (4.71%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (4.71%) ASP.NET
5 4 (4.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (4.71%) EJB
5 4 (4.71%) J2EE
5 4 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.53%) Kafka
7 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (31.76%) Public Cloud
2 9 (10.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (10.59%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.53%) Replication
6 2 (2.35%) CMDB
6 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.18%) PKI
7 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.65%) Linux
2 6 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (7.06%) Windows
2 6 (7.06%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.88%) Unix
4 3 (3.53%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.94%) DevOps
2 19 (22.35%) Roadmaps
3 17 (20.00%) Migration
4 16 (18.82%) Agile
5 14 (16.47%) DevSecOps
6 12 (14.12%) Capacity Planning
6 12 (14.12%) SDLC
7 11 (12.94%) High Availability
7 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Management
8 10 (11.76%) Network Architecture
8 10 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.76%) TOGAF
9 9 (10.59%) Containerisation
10 8 (9.41%) CI/CD
10 8 (9.41%) Configuration Management
10 8 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (9.41%) Project Management
10 8 (9.41%) Security Management
11 7 (8.24%) Open Source
11 7 (8.24%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.12%) JavaScript
2 10 (11.76%) SQL
3 8 (9.41%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.24%) C#
4 7 (8.24%) Java
5 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.53%) Python
7 2 (2.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (8.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (8.24%) CCSP
4 7 (8.24%) CEH
4 7 (8.24%) CISM
4 7 (8.24%) CISSP
4 7 (8.24%) OSCP
5 3 (3.53%) RHCSA
6 2 (2.35%) Degree
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.18%) CCNP
7 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) COBIT
1 7 (8.24%) NIST
1 7 (8.24%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.53%) QA
3 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (14.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (12.94%) Docker
3 10 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (7.06%) vSphere
5 3 (3.53%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.53%) vCloud
5 3 (3.53%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.53%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (16.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.94%) Ansible
3 7 (8.24%) Terraform
4 4 (4.71%) Kibana
5 2 (2.35%) Grafana
5 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.35%) Puppet
5 2 (2.35%) VxRail
6 1 (1.18%) Consul
6 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) VMware
2 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.76%) Oracle
4 9 (10.59%) Red Hat
4 9 (10.59%) SAP
5 3 (3.53%) EMC
5 3 (3.53%) Ericsson
5 3 (3.53%) Google
5 3 (3.53%) Nokia
6 2 (2.35%) Cisco
6 2 (2.35%) Mavenir
6 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.18%) Adobe
7 1 (1.18%) Ariba
7 1 (1.18%) Confluent
7 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.18%) HP
7 1 (1.18%) IBM
7 1 (1.18%) TIBCO