Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Public Cloud
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Gloucestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.30% 0.35% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 1.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £475 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £650 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 92 76 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 27.63% 26.95% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 61 58
10th Percentile £156 £250 £292
25th Percentile £300 £417 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% -0.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £643
90th Percentile £618 £700 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £541 £545
% change year-on-year -2.96% -0.73% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 9
10th Percentile £30.75 £28.27 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £31.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £15.89
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +107.68% -79.63%
75th Percentile £61.47 £36.00 £21.00
90th Percentile £77.98 £59.40 £33.48
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £50.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.15% +26.88% +308.16%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Public Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Gloucester - 1 £450 - 2
Public Cloud
South West

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google