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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 404 449
Rank change year-on-year -90 +45 -31
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 126 102 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 1.06% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 64 73
10th Percentile £461 £358 -
25th Percentile £538 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £609
90th Percentile £778 £775 £685
UK median daily rate £600 £598 £531
% change year-on-year +0.42% +12.47% -7.61%
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 15,054 9,614 10,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.31% 34.95% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,307 6,078 6,877
10th Percentile £322 £305 £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 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 843 477 594
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.16% -28.78% +12.04%
75th Percentile £70.41 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.48 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.75 £41.13
% change year-on-year +47.76% -27.66% +15.85%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -74 47 £601 -7.62% 32
North of England -61 23 £550 +39.95% 11
South East -65 22 £616 +17.24% 13
Midlands -45 17 £671 -9.02% 9
West Midlands -50 17 £671 -25.44% 6
North West -49 15 £800 +99.00% 7
East of England -9 8 £512 +42.27% 3
Yorkshire -40 8 £525 +43.84% 1
South West -37 7 £575 -2.13% 5
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 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.38%) Apache
2 3 (2.38%) SAS
3 2 (1.59%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.79%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.79%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (35.71%) AWS
2 40 (31.75%) Azure
3 22 (17.46%) GCP
4 15 (11.90%) GitHub
4 15 (11.90%) OpenShift
5 14 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.56%) Datadog
7 7 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.38%) IaaS
11 2 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.59%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.59%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.59%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.32%) Firewall
2 12 (9.52%) LAN
2 12 (9.52%) WAN
3 10 (7.94%) TCP/IP
3 10 (7.94%) VPN
4 9 (7.14%) BGP
5 8 (6.35%) MPLS
6 7 (5.56%) DNS
7 6 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (4.76%) VLAN
7 6 (4.76%) VSAN
8 5 (3.97%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (3.97%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.17%) BIG-IP
9 4 (3.17%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (3.17%) IPsec
9 4 (3.17%) OSPF
9 4 (3.17%) SNMP
9 4 (3.17%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.17%) MySQL
1 4 (3.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (8.73%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.14%) GitLab
3 7 (5.56%) Git
4 3 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.59%) JIRA
6 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.79%) Gradle
6 1 (0.79%) JUnit
6 1 (0.79%) LSMW
6 1 (0.79%) Maven
6 1 (0.79%) Postman
6 1 (0.79%) Selenium
6 1 (0.79%) Snyk
6 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 16 (12.70%) Finance
2 15 (11.90%) Public Sector
2 15 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.35%) Legal
5 5 (3.97%) Banking
6 4 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Law
8 2 (1.59%) Military
8 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Police
9 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.79%) Automotive
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Local Government
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (38.10%) Architect
2 19 (15.08%) Lead
3 17 (13.49%) Senior
3 17 (13.49%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 11 (8.73%) Consultant
5 11 (8.73%) Lead Architect
5 11 (8.73%) Network Architect
6 10 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) VMware Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Technical Manager
7 9 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
8 8 (6.35%) DV Cleared Project Manager
8 8 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
9 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 7 (5.56%) Security Consultant
9 7 (5.56%) Technical Architect
9 7 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (7.14%) RESTful
2 4 (3.17%) NETCONF
2 4 (3.17%) OpenConfig
2 4 (3.17%) REST
2 4 (3.17%) RESTCONF
2 4 (3.17%) YANG
3 3 (2.38%) SOAP
4 2 (1.59%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (1.59%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.59%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (1.59%) Next.js
4 2 (1.59%) Node.js
4 2 (1.59%) React
5 1 (0.79%) JSON
5 1 (0.79%) Kafka
5 1 (0.79%) Middleware
5 1 (0.79%) Web Services
5 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 21 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 15 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (10.32%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.76%) Operational Technology
7 5 (3.97%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.17%) PKI
9 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.79%) Industry 4.0
11 1 (0.79%) IoT
11 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.79%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.67%) Linux
2 7 (5.56%) Windows
3 4 (3.17%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (2.38%) AIX
4 3 (2.38%) Debian
4 3 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.38%) Solaris
4 3 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.59%) Unix
6 1 (0.79%) VMS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.98%) CI/CD
2 33 (26.19%) Agile
2 33 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (23.02%) DevOps
4 26 (20.63%) Containerisation
5 24 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (19.05%) Migration
5 24 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (13.49%) Threat Modelling
8 16 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (11.90%) Architecture Governance
10 14 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (10.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (10.32%) Microservices
11 13 (10.32%) Roadmaps
12 12 (9.52%) Project Delivery
12 12 (9.52%) Zero Trust
13 11 (8.73%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.67%) Python
2 7 (5.56%) Bash
2 7 (5.56%) Go
2 7 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.76%) Java
4 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.38%) C++
5 3 (2.38%) Perl
5 3 (2.38%) SQL
6 2 (1.59%) C
6 2 (1.59%) Ruby
7 1 (0.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (53.17%) Security Cleared
2 36 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 30 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 20 (15.87%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (11.90%) CISSP
6 13 (10.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (9.52%) CISM
8 10 (7.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (7.94%) CCSP
8 10 (7.94%) CEH
8 10 (7.94%) OSCP
9 8 (6.35%) Degree
10 6 (4.76%) CCIE
10 6 (4.76%) CCNP
11 5 (3.97%) VCAP
12 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (3.17%) JNCIE
13 3 (2.38%) AWS Certification
13 3 (2.38%) PMP
13 3 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) NIST
2 10 (7.94%) PCI DSS
3 9 (7.14%) COBIT
3 9 (7.14%) NCSC
4 3 (2.38%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (2.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (2.38%) PMO
4 3 (2.38%) SLA
5 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) GxP
6 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (13.49%) Docker
1 17 (13.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (12.70%) VMware NSX
3 8 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (4.76%) vSphere
5 4 (3.17%) Ceph
5 4 (3.17%) KVM
6 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
6 3 (2.38%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.59%) NFS
8 1 (0.79%) GPFS
8 1 (0.79%) Lustre
8 1 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (30.16%) Kubernetes
2 33 (26.19%) Terraform
3 29 (23.02%) Ansible
4 10 (7.94%) Puppet
5 9 (7.14%) Grafana
5 9 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 9 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.35%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.97%) Argo
8 2 (1.59%) Consul
8 2 (1.59%) SELinux
9 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.79%) Kibana
9 1 (0.79%) logstash
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) Podman
9 1 (0.79%) Salt
9 1 (0.79%) SCCM
9 1 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (22.22%) VMware
2 14 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.94%) Cisco
4 9 (7.14%) F5
4 9 (7.14%) SAP
4 9 (7.14%) Splunk
5 8 (6.35%) Google
5 8 (6.35%) Oracle
6 6 (4.76%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.17%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.17%) Juniper
7 4 (3.17%) NetApp
7 4 (3.17%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.38%) Ariba
8 3 (2.38%) Denodo
8 3 (2.38%) Talend
9 2 (1.59%) Citrix
9 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.59%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow