Public Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 27 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 252 265
Rank change year-on-year -121 +13 -45
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 152 313 406
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.96% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 3.09% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 185 298
10th Percentile £355 £421 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £713 £663 £722
90th Percentile £780 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £537 £566 £600
% change year-on-year -5.12% -5.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £52.60 £75.75
25th Percentile £42.50 £53.50 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £56.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% -28.21% -2.50%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.50 £81.00
90th Percentile - £57.80 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £56.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -19.64% -28.21% +44.44%

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 10,068 10,132 13,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.06% 30.98% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,314 6,164 9,545
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £519 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.53% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 514 393 428
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.15 £21.30
Median hourly rate £30.50 £57.35 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -46.82% +27.15% +76.26%
75th Percentile £56.00 £70.00 £65.55
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.33 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.34% +12.36% +72.11%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in England over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Public Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Public Cloud

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 27 September 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 -58 68 £647 +17.64% 75
North of England -29 43 £450 -16.36% 29
Yorkshire +4 26 £450 -16.28% 11
Midlands -19 16 £537 +8.48% 14
North West -24 16 £450 -13.92% 16
South East -23 11 £688 +19.57% 38
East Midlands -2 10 £506 +8.24% 6
South West +16 6 £600 +6.67% 8
East of England -8 6 £825 +94.12% 2
West Midlands -10 6 £625 - 8
North East -9 1 - - 2
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 (3.95%) Confluence
2 3 (1.97%) Apache
3 2 (1.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) SAS
4 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (14.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.29%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.97%) SAP CO
3 3 (1.97%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.97%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.32%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.66%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.66%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.66%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 81 (53.29%) AWS
2 57 (37.50%) Azure
3 46 (30.26%) GCP
4 27 (17.76%) GitHub
5 24 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.50%) Serverless
7 10 (6.58%) SuccessFactors
8 9 (5.92%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.92%) SaaS
9 8 (5.26%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.29%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (3.29%) IaaS
11 5 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (2.63%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.63%) PaaS
12 4 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.87%) Firewall
2 13 (8.55%) WAN
3 10 (6.58%) VPN
4 8 (5.26%) LAN
5 7 (4.61%) DNS
6 5 (3.29%) Network Security
6 5 (3.29%) VLAN
7 2 (1.32%) BGP
7 2 (1.32%) DHCP
7 2 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.32%) IPsec
7 2 (1.32%) Multicast
7 2 (1.32%) OSPF
7 2 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.32%) SAN
7 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.32%) VSAN
7 2 (1.32%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 9 (5.92%) Power BI
3 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.63%) Big Data
4 4 (2.63%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.97%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.32%) MySQL
6 2 (1.32%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.66%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (14.47%) GitLab
2 20 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 17 (11.18%) Liquibase
4 15 (9.87%) Git
5 13 (8.55%) JIRA
6 7 (4.61%) Artifactory
6 7 (4.61%) CircleCI
7 5 (3.29%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.66%) JUnit
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.66%) Postman
10 1 (0.66%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.66%) Subversion
10 1 (0.66%) webpack
10 1 (0.66%) Zephyr
General
1 69 (45.39%) Finance
2 43 (28.29%) Social Skills
3 32 (21.05%) Banking
4 19 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.55%) Financial Institution
6 12 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (4.61%) Local Government
9 5 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.97%) Legal
10 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.97%) Publishing
11 2 (1.32%) Billing
11 2 (1.32%) French Language
11 2 (1.32%) Military
12 1 (0.66%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.66%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (32.24%) Architect
2 33 (21.71%) Senior
3 19 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (9.87%) Analyst
4 15 (9.87%) Technical Architect
5 14 (9.21%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.55%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (7.24%) Consultant
9 10 (6.58%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (6.58%) Senior Architect
9 10 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (5.92%) Security Architect
11 8 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Azure Architect
12 7 (4.61%) Programme Manager
12 7 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (4.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.45%) REST
2 19 (12.50%) RESTful
3 18 (11.84%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (5.26%) Kafka
5 7 (4.61%) Middleware
6 5 (3.29%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.63%) React
7 4 (2.63%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (1.97%) .NET
8 3 (1.97%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (1.97%) JSON
8 3 (1.97%) Node.js
8 3 (1.97%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.32%) CSS
9 2 (1.32%) HTML
9 2 (1.32%) OAuth
9 2 (1.32%) Spring
9 2 (1.32%) Web Services
9 2 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (23.03%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.84%) Data Centre
3 13 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (6.58%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.95%) Mainframe
6 5 (3.29%) Replication
6 5 (3.29%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.32%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.32%) CMDB
9 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.39%) Linux
2 15 (9.87%) Windows
3 5 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.32%) Unix
4 2 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (0.66%) CentOS
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 56 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 50 (32.89%) DevOps
4 48 (31.58%) Agile
5 40 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 32 (21.05%) Microservices
7 28 (18.42%) Cost Optimisation
8 27 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (16.45%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 23 (15.13%) Mentoring
12 22 (14.47%) High Availability
12 22 (14.47%) Migration
13 20 (13.16%) Continuous Delivery
14 19 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (12.50%) Roadmaps
15 18 (11.84%) Computer Science
15 18 (11.84%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (10.53%) Change Management
16 16 (10.53%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.61%) Python
2 35 (23.03%) Java
3 33 (21.71%) Go
4 8 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.61%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.95%) Kotlin
6 6 (3.95%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.95%) SQL
7 4 (2.63%) Bash
7 4 (2.63%) Groovy
8 3 (1.97%) Perl
9 2 (1.32%) C#
9 2 (1.32%) Scala
10 1 (0.66%) ABAP
10 1 (0.66%) Clojure
10 1 (0.66%) DAML
10 1 (0.66%) Elixir
10 1 (0.66%) Rust
10 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.79%) Degree
3 18 (11.84%) AWS Certification
3 18 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.89%) Master's Degree
6 9 (5.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.95%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.63%) CISSP
10 3 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.97%) CCSP
10 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.32%) JNCIA
11 2 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) NIST
2 6 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.63%) GDPR
4 4 (2.63%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.63%) QA
5 3 (1.97%) PSD2
6 2 (1.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.66%) GAMP
7 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (23.03%) Docker
2 9 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.29%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.63%) vSphere
6 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.32%) Firmware
8 1 (0.66%) IAG
8 1 (0.66%) vCloud
8 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 60 (39.47%) Terraform
2 53 (34.87%) Kubernetes
3 29 (19.08%) Ansible
4 24 (15.79%) Grafana
4 24 (15.79%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.63%) Puppet
6 3 (1.97%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.32%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.32%) Kibana
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.66%) SCOM
8 1 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 28 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.79%) SAP
3 16 (10.53%) Splunk
4 13 (8.55%) Google
5 12 (7.89%) VMware
6 10 (6.58%) Cisco
7 7 (4.61%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.95%) IBM
8 6 (3.95%) MuleSoft
9 5 (3.29%) Oracle
9 5 (3.29%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.63%) NetApp
11 3 (1.97%) AlgoSec
11 3 (1.97%) Dell
11 3 (1.97%) F5
11 3 (1.97%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.97%) Tufin
11 3 (1.97%) Veeam
12 2 (1.32%) Concur
12 2 (1.32%) Palo Alto