Public Cloud Contracts in England

Public Cloud
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 288 222
Rank change year-on-year +1 -66 -38
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 207 276 604
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.74% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 2.41% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 185 423
10th Percentile £458 £450 £439
25th Percentile £534 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £700 £769 £775
90th Percentile £788 £850 £836
UK median daily rate £609 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +1.46% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £45.70 - £62.43
25th Percentile £49.75 £36.75 £68.13
Median hourly rate £56.50 £38.50 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.75% -49.01% +13.53%
75th Percentile £63.25 £40.25 £78.00
90th Percentile £67.30 - £78.60
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £38.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +46.75% -47.26% +37.09%

All Generic Skills
England

Public 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 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in England.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in England.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Cloud in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Cloud in England

Public 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 Public Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +43 127 £650 +11.11% 155
South East +54 35 £615 +3.36% 48
North of England -29 17 £537 -21.89% 55
North West -24 13 £537 -36.82% 34
Midlands +12 8 £537 -20.44% 27
East of England +36 7 £600 - 19
East Midlands +9 5 £475 +6.74% 5
South West +21 3 £575 -4.17% 23
West Midlands +5 3 £706 +0.89% 19
Yorkshire 0 3 £481 -10.47% 14
North East 0 1 - - 8
Public Cloud
UK

Public 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 6 (2.90%) Apache
2 3 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.45%) Confluence
3 2 (0.97%) IIS
3 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.48%) DataSynapse
4 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 27 (13.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.38%) SAP CO
2 7 (3.38%) SAP FI
2 7 (3.38%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.97%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.97%) Maximo
3 2 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.97%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.97%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.48%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.48%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.48%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 102 (49.28%) Azure
2 97 (46.86%) AWS
3 28 (13.53%) GCP
4 26 (12.56%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (12.08%) SaaS
6 21 (10.14%) PaaS
7 19 (9.18%) GitHub
7 19 (9.18%) OpenShift
7 19 (9.18%) Serverless
8 17 (8.21%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (6.76%) IaaS
11 13 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.83%) SuccessFactors
14 9 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (3.38%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.21%) WAN
2 15 (7.25%) DNS
2 15 (7.25%) Firewall
2 15 (7.25%) VPN
3 11 (5.31%) MPLS
4 9 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.86%) Network Security
6 6 (2.90%) BGP
6 6 (2.90%) LAN
6 6 (2.90%) NGFW
7 5 (2.42%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (2.42%) OSPF
7 5 (2.42%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.93%) VLAN
8 4 (1.93%) VSAN
9 3 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.97%) DHCP
10 2 (0.97%) HTTP
10 2 (0.97%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.97%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.35%) Big Data
3 8 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.38%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.38%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (2.90%) DocumentDB
5 6 (2.90%) Redis
6 5 (2.42%) MySQL
6 5 (2.42%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.93%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.45%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.45%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.97%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.97%) Power BI
10 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.48%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 34 (16.43%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.80%) Git
3 11 (5.31%) JIRA
4 10 (4.83%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.38%) Artifactory
5 7 (3.38%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.38%) GitLab
6 5 (2.42%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.97%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.48%) Gatling
9 1 (0.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.48%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) MLflow
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.48%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
General
1 63 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 57 (27.54%) Finance
3 24 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.66%) Banking
5 15 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.38%) Retail
8 6 (2.90%) Legal
8 6 (2.90%) Retail Banking
9 5 (2.42%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.93%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.93%) Law
11 3 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.97%) Aviation
12 2 (0.97%) Billing
12 2 (0.97%) Front Office
12 2 (0.97%) Korean Language
12 2 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (43.96%) Architect
2 39 (18.84%) Senior
3 38 (18.36%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (9.66%) Technical Architect
5 19 (9.18%) Senior Architect
6 18 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
7 16 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (7.73%) Consultant
7 16 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (7.25%) Azure Architect
8 15 (7.25%) Infrastructure Architect
9 14 (6.76%) Lead
10 11 (5.31%) AWS Architect
11 10 (4.83%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (4.83%) Security Architect
12 9 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
12 9 (4.35%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.86%) Developer
13 8 (3.86%) SAP Architect
13 8 (3.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.73%) RESTful
2 14 (6.76%) Kafka
3 12 (5.80%) REST
4 9 (4.35%) .NET
5 8 (3.86%) CSS
5 8 (3.86%) HTML
5 8 (3.86%) Middleware
6 7 (3.38%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (3.38%) GraphQL
7 6 (2.90%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.90%) Node.js
8 5 (2.42%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.42%) LangChain
8 5 (2.42%) React
8 5 (2.42%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (2.42%) Spring
9 4 (1.93%) Angular 2
9 4 (1.93%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (1.93%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (1.93%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.04%) Private Cloud
2 24 (11.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.83%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.90%) Derivative
6 6 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.42%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.93%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.45%) PKI
9 3 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.97%) Replication
10 2 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.46%) Linux
2 26 (12.56%) Windows
3 14 (6.76%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.83%) CentOS
5 8 (3.86%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.42%) Unix
9 1 (0.48%) Debian
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.27%) Agile
2 63 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 56 (27.05%) DevOps
4 50 (24.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (18.84%) Roadmaps
6 34 (16.43%) Containerisation
7 31 (14.98%) Migration
8 29 (14.01%) Microservices
9 27 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (12.08%) SDLC
11 24 (11.59%) Software Engineering
11 24 (11.59%) TOGAF
12 20 (9.66%) DevSecOps
12 20 (9.66%) IT Strategy
13 19 (9.18%) Technology Strategy
14 18 (8.70%) Analytics
15 17 (8.21%) Event-Driven
15 17 (8.21%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (8.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (28.50%) Python
2 35 (16.91%) Java
3 19 (9.18%) PowerShell
4 15 (7.25%) C#
4 15 (7.25%) SQL
5 12 (5.80%) Go
5 12 (5.80%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.86%) Bash
6 8 (3.86%) Clojure
6 8 (3.86%) Rust
6 8 (3.86%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.38%) Elixir
7 7 (3.38%) Scala
8 5 (2.42%) Perl
9 3 (1.45%) ABAP
9 3 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.97%) Haskell
10 2 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 51 (24.64%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.87%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.59%) Degree
4 14 (6.76%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.86%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.38%) MCSE
7 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.90%) CCIE
9 5 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.42%) CCNP
9 5 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.93%) OCP
10 4 (1.93%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.45%) CISSP
11 3 (1.45%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.97%) CISM
13 1 (0.48%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.73%) NIST
2 13 (6.28%) QA
3 8 (3.86%) NCSC
4 4 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.93%) GDPR
5 3 (1.45%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.97%) GRC
6 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.97%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (13.04%) Docker
2 23 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.76%) vSphere
4 10 (4.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (3.86%) Active Directory
6 6 (2.90%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.93%) Lustre
7 4 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.45%) vCloud
8 3 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.45%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.97%) IAG
10 1 (0.48%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.48%) HDFS
10 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.48%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 55 (26.57%) Kubernetes
2 53 (25.60%) Terraform
3 43 (20.77%) Ansible
4 10 (4.83%) Grafana
4 10 (4.83%) vCenter Server
5 7 (3.38%) Nessus
6 6 (2.90%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.42%) Kibana
8 4 (1.93%) Karpenter
8 4 (1.93%) Podman
9 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.97%) Packer
9 2 (0.97%) Puppet
9 2 (0.97%) VxRail
10 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.48%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 30 (14.49%) VMware
3 29 (14.01%) SAP
4 20 (9.66%) Red Hat
5 18 (8.70%) Google
6 16 (7.73%) Cisco
7 12 (5.80%) Oracle
8 9 (4.35%) Fortinet
9 7 (3.38%) F5
9 7 (3.38%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.90%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.90%) Citrix
10 6 (2.90%) IBM
10 6 (2.90%) MuleSoft
10 6 (2.90%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.42%) Concur
11 5 (2.42%) Databricks
11 5 (2.42%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.42%) Splunk
12 3 (1.45%) Tufin