Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Public Cloud
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Hampshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 66 93
Rank change year-on-year -37 +27 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 6 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.32% 1.00% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 3.69% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 9
10th Percentile £415 - £520
25th Percentile £438 £575 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £688 £638
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +7.84% +17.24%
75th Percentile £541 £694 £723
90th Percentile £546 - £788
South East median daily rate £590 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -1.67% +5.73% -5.42%

All Generic Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 451 244 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 24.37% 27.02% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 152 274
10th Percentile £304 £325 £400
25th Percentile £450 £439 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £582
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -6.36% +13.45%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £735 £674 £738
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 67
10th Percentile £16.78 £32.94 £12.08
25th Percentile £26.13 £33.05 £30.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -12.82% +9.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £71.20 £63.00 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £63.00 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +85.92% -40.92% +14.70%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Hampshire over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Hampshire

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Andover - 2 £450 -
Farnborough - 2 £538 -
Basingstoke - 1 £400 -
Public Cloud
South East

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Cloudflare
3 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) General Ledger
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Process Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LAMP
1 2 (33.33%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 3 (50.00%) CentOS
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (16.67%) Coaching
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
1 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
1 1 (16.67%) ERP
1 1 (16.67%) Product Management
1 1 (16.67%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (16.67%) Record to Report
1 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Server Building
1 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
1 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (16.67%) User Experience
1 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ACCA
2 1 (16.67%) CIMA
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Dovecot
1 2 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (33.33%) HAProxy
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) SAP