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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 421 348
Rank change year-on-year +36 -73 +118
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 82 112 329
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.31% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 1.00% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 100 271
10th Percentile £358 £463 £458
25th Percentile £487 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% -13.92% +10.62%
75th Percentile £684 £616 £738
90th Percentile £775 £688 £820
UK median daily rate £600 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +11.52% -10.33% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +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 8,237 11,180 16,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.02% 30.66% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 7,335 11,397
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 820 580
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £33.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% +48.99% -16.66%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.90 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -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 15 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 15 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 +86 54 £615 -4.09% 54
North of England +22 11 £393 -23.32% 18
North West +13 9 £393 -23.32% 15
South East +39 5 £431 -31.00% 20
East of England +25 4 £598 -
South West -21 3 £680 +36.00% 25
Yorkshire - 2 £523 - 1
Midlands +17 1 £358 -46.96% 14
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 2
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 7 (8.54%) JBoss
1 7 (8.54%) Tomcat
1 7 (8.54%) WebSphere
2 6 (7.32%) OpenStack
2 6 (7.32%) WebLogic
3 5 (6.10%) Apache
4 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.22%) Camunda
4 1 (1.22%) CMS
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.44%) assyst
2 2 (2.44%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.44%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.44%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (2.44%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.22%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.22%) SAP LE
3 1 (1.22%) SAP MII
3 1 (1.22%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.22%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.22%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.02%) Azure
2 28 (34.15%) AWS
3 15 (18.29%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (15.85%) IaaS
5 12 (14.63%) PaaS
6 11 (13.41%) SaaS
7 7 (8.54%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.44%) GCP
10 1 (1.22%) Akamai
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) Network Security
2 4 (4.88%) DNS
2 4 (4.88%) Firewall
3 3 (3.66%) VSAN
4 2 (2.44%) HTTP
4 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.44%) SNMP
4 2 (2.44%) VPN
4 2 (2.44%) WAN
5 1 (1.22%) 3G
5 1 (1.22%) 4G
5 1 (1.22%) 5G
5 1 (1.22%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.22%) LTE
5 1 (1.22%) MPLS
5 1 (1.22%) SAN
5 1 (1.22%) VLAN
5 1 (1.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) DB2
2 5 (6.10%) Big Data
3 4 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.44%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.44%) MySQL
5 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.44%) Redis
5 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Bitbucket
2 8 (9.76%) Git
3 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.66%) GitLab
4 3 (3.66%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.44%) JIRA
6 1 (1.22%) Hudson
6 1 (1.22%) Selenium
6 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.22%) TestNG
General
1 20 (24.39%) Finance
2 18 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.54%) Banking
5 5 (6.10%) Retail
5 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.88%) Legal
6 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.66%) Law
8 2 (2.44%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.22%) Billing
9 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (52.44%) Architect
2 19 (23.17%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Architect
4 9 (10.98%) Consultant
4 9 (10.98%) Lead
4 9 (10.98%) Senior
5 8 (9.76%) Technical Architect
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Architect
6 6 (7.32%) Scrum Master
6 6 (7.32%) Senior Architect
6 6 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
6 6 (7.32%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.10%) DevSecOps Architect
7 5 (6.10%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) DevSecOps Consultant
8 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) REST
2 9 (10.98%) SOAP
3 7 (8.54%) Web Services
4 6 (7.32%) RAML
4 6 (7.32%) Spring
4 6 (7.32%) WSDL
5 5 (6.10%) .NET
5 5 (6.10%) CSS
5 5 (6.10%) HTML
5 5 (6.10%) JSP
5 5 (6.10%) Servlets
5 5 (6.10%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.88%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (4.88%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (4.88%) EJB
6 4 (4.88%) J2EE
6 4 (4.88%) Middleware
6 4 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.66%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.93%) Public Cloud
2 10 (12.20%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.10%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.88%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.66%) Replication
7 2 (2.44%) CMDB
7 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.22%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.22%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.22%) FMCG
8 1 (1.22%) PACS
8 1 (1.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.85%) Linux
2 6 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (7.32%) Windows
2 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.10%) Unix
4 3 (3.66%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.27%) DevOps
2 19 (23.17%) Migration
3 18 (21.95%) Roadmaps
4 17 (20.73%) Agile
5 13 (15.85%) SDLC
6 11 (13.41%) DevSecOps
6 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Management
7 10 (12.20%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
7 10 (12.20%) Configuration Management
7 10 (12.20%) High Availability
7 10 (12.20%) TOGAF
8 9 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.76%) Project Management
10 7 (8.54%) Containerisation
10 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (8.54%) Network Architecture
11 6 (7.32%) API Development
11 6 (7.32%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 6 (7.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.07%) JavaScript
2 13 (15.85%) SQL
3 9 (10.98%) C#
3 9 (10.98%) Java
3 9 (10.98%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.10%) Python
5 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (4.88%) CCSP
4 4 (4.88%) CEH
4 4 (4.88%) CISM
4 4 (4.88%) CISSP
4 4 (4.88%) OSCP
5 2 (2.44%) Degree
5 2 (2.44%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.22%) CCNP
6 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) COBIT
1 4 (4.88%) NIST
1 4 (4.88%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.66%) QA
3 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (12.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (10.98%) Docker
4 6 (7.32%) vSphere
5 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.66%) vCloud
5 3 (3.66%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.66%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.63%) Ansible
3 6 (7.32%) Terraform
4 4 (4.88%) Kibana
5 2 (2.44%) Grafana
5 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.44%) Puppet
5 2 (2.44%) VxRail
6 1 (1.22%) Consul
6 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (19.51%) VMware
2 15 (18.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.41%) Oracle
4 10 (12.20%) Red Hat
5 9 (10.98%) SAP
6 3 (3.66%) EMC
6 3 (3.66%) Ericsson
6 3 (3.66%) Google
6 3 (3.66%) Nokia
7 2 (2.44%) Cisco
7 2 (2.44%) Mavenir
7 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.22%) Adobe
8 1 (1.22%) Ariba
8 1 (1.22%) Confluent
8 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.22%) HP
8 1 (1.22%) IBM
8 1 (1.22%) TIBCO