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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 409 426
Rank change year-on-year -71 +17 -63
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 126 80 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.91% 0.95% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 45 94
10th Percentile £463 £358 £463
25th Percentile £513 £402 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +10.59% -13.92%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £608
90th Percentile £697 £765 £684
UK median daily rate £581 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +1.04% +6.88% -10.33%
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 13,865 8,458 11,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.51% 34.50% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 5,459 7,367
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.50% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 742 371 849
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.64 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -5.92% +60.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.95 £84.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.90% -5.57% +57.30%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -70 44 £635 +3.67% 16
North of England -52 29 £550 +43.23% 7
North West -19 21 £581 +51.30% 5
South East -60 21 £575 +27.78% 17
South West -18 11 £550 -8.33% 7
West Midlands -50 10 £651 -27.72% 2
Midlands -56 10 £651 -27.72% 3
Yorkshire -45 8 £525 +43.84% 2
East of England -19 6 £549 +30.79%
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 5 (3.97%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.17%) Apache
3 3 (2.38%) SAS
4 2 (1.59%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (34.13%) AWS
2 36 (28.57%) Azure
3 23 (18.25%) GCP
4 11 (8.73%) GitHub
4 11 (8.73%) OpenShift
5 9 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (2.38%) Datadog
9 3 (2.38%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.59%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.59%) IaaS
10 2 (1.59%) OCI
10 2 (1.59%) SaaS
10 2 (1.59%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.52%) Firewall
2 6 (4.76%) DNS
2 6 (4.76%) VPN
3 5 (3.97%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.97%) VSAN
4 4 (3.17%) DHCP
5 3 (2.38%) LAN
5 3 (2.38%) NetScaler
5 3 (2.38%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.38%) WAN
6 2 (1.59%) BGP
6 2 (1.59%) Network Security
6 2 (1.59%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (1.59%) VLAN
7 1 (0.79%) 4G
7 1 (0.79%) Internet
7 1 (0.79%) LTE
7 1 (0.79%) MPLS
7 1 (0.79%) NAS
7 1 (0.79%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
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 10 (7.94%) GitLab
2 6 (4.76%) Git
2 6 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.17%) JIRA
4 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.79%) LSMW
5 1 (0.79%) RStudio
General
1 15 (11.90%) Finance
1 15 (11.90%) Public Sector
2 11 (8.73%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.97%) Banking
5 3 (2.38%) Legal
5 3 (2.38%) Military
6 2 (1.59%) Billing
6 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Law
6 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.79%) Advertising
7 1 (0.79%) Electronics
7 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 42 (33.33%) Architect
2 17 (13.49%) Senior
3 13 (10.32%) Lead
4 12 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (9.52%) VMware Engineer
5 11 (8.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Lead Architect
7 7 (5.56%) Consultant
7 7 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.56%) Security Consultant
8 6 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Principal Architect
8 6 (4.76%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Technical Architect
8 6 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.14%) RESTful
2 4 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.17%) REST
3 3 (2.38%) OAuth
3 3 (2.38%) SAML
4 2 (1.59%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (1.59%) AngularJS
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
4 2 (1.59%) SOAP
4 2 (1.59%) Spring
4 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.79%) Kafka
5 1 (0.79%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.79%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 17 (13.49%) Public Cloud
3 11 (8.73%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.76%) Operational Technology
5 6 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.97%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.97%) e-Learning
7 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.17%) PKI
8 2 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.59%) Replication
9 1 (0.79%) CESG
9 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.79%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.52%) Linux
2 10 (7.94%) Windows
3 7 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.17%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (2.38%) AIX
5 3 (2.38%) Debian
5 3 (2.38%) Solaris
5 3 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.59%) VMS
7 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.16%) DevOps
2 36 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 29 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (22.22%) Agile
5 27 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (20.63%) Containerisation
7 25 (19.84%) Technical Leadership
8 21 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (15.87%) Migration
10 19 (15.08%) Threat Modelling
11 16 (12.70%) Microservices
11 16 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (11.90%) Observability
13 13 (10.32%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.52%) Roadmaps
15 11 (8.73%) OWASP
15 11 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.32%) Python
2 9 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.97%) Bash
3 5 (3.97%) Java
4 4 (3.17%) Go
4 4 (3.17%) SQL
5 2 (1.59%) Ruby
6 1 (0.79%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.79%) C++
6 1 (0.79%) Perl
6 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (49.21%) Security Cleared
2 35 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.46%) DV Cleared
4 15 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (11.11%) CISSP
6 12 (9.52%) CISM
7 11 (8.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (7.94%) CCSP
8 10 (7.94%) CEH
8 10 (7.94%) OSCP
9 7 (5.56%) Degree
9 7 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (4.76%) AWS Certification
11 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
12 4 (3.17%) CCNP
12 4 (3.17%) IBM Certification
12 4 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (2.38%) VCAP
14 2 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) NIST
2 10 (7.94%) PCI DSS
3 9 (7.14%) COBIT
4 8 (6.35%) NCSC
5 3 (2.38%) PMO
6 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.59%) SLA
7 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.79%) QA
7 1 (0.79%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (18.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (9.52%) Docker
3 10 (7.94%) VMware NSX
4 7 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.56%) vSphere
5 6 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.38%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.59%) Ceph
7 2 (1.59%) KVM
7 2 (1.59%) NFS
8 1 (0.79%) GPFS
8 1 (0.79%) Lustre
8 1 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 34 (26.98%) Kubernetes
2 32 (25.40%) Terraform
3 23 (18.25%) Ansible
4 6 (4.76%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (3.97%) Argo
6 4 (3.17%) Grafana
6 4 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.17%) Puppet
6 4 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.38%) SCCM
8 2 (1.59%) Consul
8 2 (1.59%) SELinux
9 1 (0.79%) Kibana
9 1 (0.79%) logstash
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) Rancher
9 1 (0.79%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (25.40%) VMware
2 13 (10.32%) Google
3 7 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.17%) F5
4 4 (3.17%) IBM
4 4 (3.17%) NetApp
4 4 (3.17%) Oracle
4 4 (3.17%) SAP
4 4 (3.17%) Splunk
5 3 (2.38%) Cisco
5 3 (2.38%) Denodo
5 3 (2.38%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.38%) Talend
5 3 (2.38%) Veeam
6 2 (1.59%) Arista
6 2 (1.59%) Citrix
6 2 (1.59%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.59%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.79%) Dell