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

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	507	415	470
Rank change year-on-year	-92	+55	-34
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud	144	97	63
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.31%	0.34%	0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.89%	0.94%	0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted	91	69	49
10^th Percentile	£413	£402	£413
25^th Percentile	£491	£475	£519
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	£575	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+4.35%	-	+4.55%
75^th Percentile	£685	£688	£650
90^th Percentile	£750	£778	£700
UK median daily rate	£590	£575	£563
% change year-on-year	+2.61%	+2.22%	+2.27%

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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	16,246	10,305	9,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	34.70%	36.53%	31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted	9,758	6,445	6,012
10^th Percentile	£322	£300	£294
25^th Percentile	£425	£410	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£543
Median % change year-on-year	-	-3.23%	-1.36%
75^th Percentile	£645	£644	£675
90^th Percentile	£750	£763	£820
UK median daily rate	£525	£515	£528
% change year-on-year	+1.94%	-2.37%	-4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1,239	548	350
10^th Percentile	£13.69	£14.91	£17.08
25^th Percentile	£17.42	£18.51	£24.63
Median hourly rate	£33.60	£29.50	£53.25
Median % change year-on-year	+13.90%	-44.60%	+15.31%
75^th Percentile	£67.50	£55.00	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£85.00	£73.75	£75.16
UK median hourly rate	£35.00	£27.33	£47.37
% change year-on-year	+28.06%	-42.31%	+5.27%

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 Daily Rate Trend in England

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 16 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.

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 16 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	-11.11%	72
North of England	-41	36	£531	+24.82%	32
Yorkshire	-8	27	£550	-	10
South East	-62	20	£626	+25.10%	27
West Midlands	-40	13	£675	+17.30%	5
Midlands	-44	13	£675	+17.30%	8
North West	-46	9	£500	+17.65%	19
East of England	-25	5	£585	+14.08%	6
South West	-42	4	£588	-2.08%	17
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Private Cloud Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Private Cloud also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region with a requirement for Private Cloud.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	39.6%	57
1	Kubernetes	39.6%	57
3	Infrastructure as Code	35.4%	51
4	Security Cleared	33.3%	48
5	VMware	31.3%	45
6	Azure	25.7%	37
7	Terraform	25.0%	36
8	AWS	24.3%	35
8	DV Cleared	24.3%	35
10	Technical Leadership	22.9%	33
11	VMware Infrastructure	22.2%	32
12	Roadmaps	21.5%	31
13	Ansible	20.8%	30
13	DevOps	20.8%	30
13	Python	20.8%	30
16	Configuration Management	20.1%	29
16	Observability	20.1%	29
16	Platform Engineering	20.1%	29
19	Infrastructure Engineering	19.4%	28
20	Cybersecurity	18.8%	27
20	Microservices	18.8%	27
22	Agile	18.1%	26
23	Linux	16.7%	24
23	Site Reliability Engineering	16.7%	24
23	Stakeholder Management	16.7%	24
26	Capacity Planning	16.0%	23
26	GCP	16.0%	23
28	Containerisation	15.3%	22
28	Microsoft	15.3%	22
28	Migration	15.3%	22

Private Cloud Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Centre	20.1%	29
2	Hybrid Cloud	16.0%	23
3	Distributed Systems	15.3%	22
3	Public Cloud	15.3%	22
5	Onboarding	11.8%	17
6	Product Ownership	10.4%	15
7	Cloud Native	6.9%	10
8	Analytical Mindset	2.8%	4
8	Enterprise Cloud	2.8%	4
8	PKI	2.8%	4
11	Data Protection Act	2.1%	3
11	Distributed Denial-of-Service	2.1%	3
13	Clustering	1.4%	2
13	Enterprise Software	1.4%	2
13	Management Information System	1.4%	2
13	Virtual Team	1.4%	2
17	AI Agents	0.7%	1
17	Enterprise Storage	0.7%	1
17	Legacy Applications	0.7%	1
17	Life Science	0.7%	1