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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 416 448
Rank change year-on-year -61 +32 -32
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 146 103 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 1.03% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 70 67
10th Percentile £418 £382 -
25th Percentile £515 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £682 £684 £608
90th Percentile £750 £775 £671
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £527
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.16% -3.79%
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 - £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 15,646 10,012 10,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.89% 36.00% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,463 6,294 6,274
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,063 498 415
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.48 £15.11
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.03 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.55% -42.41% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.50% -40.00% +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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -58 58 £600 -7.69% 101
North of England -45 34 £550 +29.41% 46
Yorkshire -13 26 £550 - 16
South East -64 22 £626 +25.10% 25
West Midlands -38 13 £675 +17.30% 13
Midlands -41 13 £675 +17.30% 23
East of England -22 8 £512 - 13
South West -39 8 £575 -2.13% 28
North West -54 8 £650 +52.94% 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 9 (6.16%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.37%) Apache
2 2 (1.37%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (2.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.68%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (7.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.68%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.14%) AWS
2 38 (26.03%) Azure
3 28 (19.18%) GCP
4 18 (12.33%) GitHub
5 17 (11.64%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (10.27%) OpenShift
7 12 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (6.85%) Datadog
8 10 (6.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.16%) IaaS
10 6 (4.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.42%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.74%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (1.37%) AWS Direct Connect
14 2 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.59%) LAN
1 14 (9.59%) WAN
2 13 (8.90%) Firewall
3 11 (7.53%) BGP
4 10 (6.85%) VPN
5 9 (6.16%) DNS
5 9 (6.16%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.48%) MPLS
7 7 (4.79%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (4.11%) VLAN
9 5 (3.42%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (3.42%) SD-WAN
9 5 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.74%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (2.74%) IPsec
10 4 (2.74%) OSPF
10 4 (2.74%) SNMP
10 4 (2.74%) TACACS
10 4 (2.74%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.74%) MySQL
2 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.68%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.22%) GitLab
3 11 (7.53%) Git
4 3 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) Gradle
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.68%) JUnit
5 1 (0.68%) LSMW
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) Postman
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.68%) Snyk
5 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 21 (14.38%) Finance
2 18 (12.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.90%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.16%) Banking
5 8 (5.48%) Legal
5 8 (5.48%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Law
8 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Police
9 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.68%) Automotive
9 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (36.99%) Architect
2 31 (21.23%) Senior
3 17 (11.64%) Cloud Architect
4 14 (9.59%) Lead
4 14 (9.59%) Project Manager
5 12 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (7.53%) Senior Architect
7 10 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.85%) Network Architect
7 10 (6.85%) Technical Manager
7 10 (6.85%) Technical Project Manager
8 9 (6.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Consultant
9 8 (5.48%) DV Cleared Project Manager
9 8 (5.48%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 7 (4.79%) Security Architect
10 7 (4.79%) Site Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (26.71%) Terraform
2 16 (10.96%) Kafka
3 9 (6.16%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.42%) Pulumi
4 5 (3.42%) RESTful
5 4 (2.74%) NETCONF
5 4 (2.74%) OpenConfig
5 4 (2.74%) RESTCONF
5 4 (2.74%) YANG
6 3 (2.05%) Middleware
6 3 (2.05%) REST
7 2 (1.37%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (1.37%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.37%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.37%) Next.js
7 2 (1.37%) Node.js
7 2 (1.37%) React
7 2 (1.37%) SOAP
7 2 (1.37%) YAML
8 1 (0.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.60%) Data Centre
2 27 (18.49%) Public Cloud
3 23 (15.75%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (15.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (10.96%) Onboarding
5 15 (10.27%) Product Ownership
6 14 (9.59%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (3.42%) PKI
8 4 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.37%) Clustering
10 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.68%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.86%) Linux
2 10 (6.85%) Windows
3 7 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.11%) Unix
4 6 (4.11%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.42%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (2.05%) AIX
6 3 (2.05%) Debian
6 3 (2.05%) Solaris
6 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.37%) VMS
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.99%) CI/CD
2 53 (36.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (23.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 35 (23.97%) Technical Leadership
4 31 (21.23%) DevOps
4 31 (21.23%) Platform Engineering
5 30 (20.55%) Configuration Management
6 28 (19.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 27 (18.49%) Agile
7 27 (18.49%) Roadmaps
8 26 (17.81%) Observability
9 24 (16.44%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (16.44%) Migration
10 23 (15.75%) Capacity Planning
10 23 (15.75%) Microservices
11 22 (15.07%) Containerisation
11 22 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (14.38%) Architectural Patterns
13 20 (13.70%) GitOps
13 20 (13.70%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 29 (19.86%) Python
2 9 (6.16%) Bash
3 8 (5.48%) C
3 8 (5.48%) Go
3 8 (5.48%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.79%) C++
4 7 (4.79%) Perl
5 5 (3.42%) Bicep
5 5 (3.42%) Java
6 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.37%) Ruby
8 1 (0.68%) Korn
8 1 (0.68%) Scala
8 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (40.41%) Security Cleared
2 39 (26.71%) DV Cleared
3 22 (15.07%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.96%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (8.90%) CISSP
6 12 (8.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (5.48%) CISM
8 7 (4.79%) Degree
9 6 (4.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (4.11%) CCIE
9 6 (4.11%) CCNP
9 6 (4.11%) CCSP
9 6 (4.11%) CEH
9 6 (4.11%) OSCP
10 4 (2.74%) JNCIE
10 4 (2.74%) VCAP
11 3 (2.05%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.05%) PMP
11 3 (2.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.85%) NCSC
2 7 (4.79%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.11%) COBIT
3 6 (4.11%) NIST
4 3 (2.05%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (2.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.37%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.37%) PMO
6 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.68%) GxP
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (23.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (10.27%) Docker
2 15 (10.27%) VMware NSX
3 9 (6.16%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (4.79%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.42%) Ceph
5 5 (3.42%) KVM
5 5 (3.42%) vSphere
6 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.37%) NFS
7 2 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.68%) GPFS
8 1 (0.68%) Lustre
8 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 57 (39.04%) Kubernetes
2 35 (23.97%) Ansible
3 17 (11.64%) Puppet
4 16 (10.96%) Progress Chef
5 14 (9.59%) Prometheus
6 13 (8.90%) Grafana
7 7 (4.79%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.42%) Argo
9 2 (1.37%) Consul
9 2 (1.37%) SELinux
10 1 (0.68%) Cilium
10 1 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.68%) Kibana
10 1 (0.68%) logstash
10 1 (0.68%) Packer
10 1 (0.68%) Podman
10 1 (0.68%) Salt
10 1 (0.68%) SCOM
10 1 (0.68%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 50 (34.25%) VMware
2 22 (15.07%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.59%) Cisco
4 12 (8.22%) SAP
5 11 (7.53%) Google
6 10 (6.85%) Splunk
7 9 (6.16%) SaltStack
8 8 (5.48%) F5
9 7 (4.79%) Palo Alto
10 6 (4.11%) Red Hat
11 5 (3.42%) Ariba
11 5 (3.42%) Juniper
11 5 (3.42%) NetApp
11 5 (3.42%) Oracle
12 4 (2.74%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.74%) SolarWinds
13 3 (2.05%) Dynatrace
14 2 (1.37%) Citrix
14 2 (1.37%) Dell
15 1 (0.68%) Veeam