Cloud Computing Contracts in London

Cloud Computing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing 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 240 266 282
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 +81
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 113 126 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.71% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.87% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 89 152
10th Percentile £447 £361 £425
25th Percentile £550 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £687
90th Percentile £805 £817 £775
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +1.77%

All Cloud Skills
London

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in London

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in London

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the London 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
Central London +6 19 £660 +38.95% 23
East London - 9 £585 - 2
South London - 1 £450 - 2
West London - 1 £625 - 9
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (9.73%) Confluence
2 5 (4.42%) Apache
2 5 (4.42%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.54%) nginx
4 2 (1.77%) CMS
4 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.88%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.88%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 45 (39.82%) Azure
2 25 (22.12%) AWS
3 22 (19.47%) GCP
4 18 (15.93%) SaaS
5 14 (12.39%) Power Platform
6 11 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (9.73%) IaaS
6 11 (9.73%) PaaS
7 9 (7.96%) OCI
8 7 (6.19%) Azure AKS
8 7 (6.19%) GitHub
8 7 (6.19%) Slack
9 5 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (4.42%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.54%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.54%) Serverless
10 4 (3.54%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.96%) HTTP
2 4 (3.54%) DNS
2 4 (3.54%) Firewall
3 3 (2.65%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.65%) VPN
4 2 (1.77%) DHCP
4 2 (1.77%) NAS
4 2 (1.77%) SAN
5 1 (0.88%) Network Security
5 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.88%) VLAN
5 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (12.39%) MongoDB
3 13 (11.50%) Power BI
4 9 (7.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 9 (7.96%) Oracle ODI
4 9 (7.96%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (7.96%) Tableau
5 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (6.19%) MySQL
6 7 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.31%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.42%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.54%) Big Data
10 3 (2.65%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.65%) Couchbase
10 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.77%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 17 (15.04%) JIRA
2 14 (12.39%) Git
3 8 (7.08%) Cucumber
4 7 (6.19%) Jasmine
4 7 (6.19%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.19%) JUnit
5 5 (4.42%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (4.42%) Subversion
6 3 (2.65%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.77%) Postman
8 1 (0.88%) MLflow
8 1 (0.88%) Selenium
8 1 (0.88%) Serena SBM
General
1 43 (38.05%) Finance
2 32 (28.32%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.27%) Banking
5 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.08%) Back Office
7 7 (6.19%) Legal
8 5 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.42%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.54%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.65%) Military
10 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.77%) Publishing
11 2 (1.77%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (27.43%) Lead
2 21 (18.58%) Architect
3 19 (16.81%) Developer
4 10 (8.85%) Senior
5 9 (7.96%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (7.08%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.08%) Report Writer
6 8 (7.08%) Technical Leader
7 7 (6.19%) Analyst
7 7 (6.19%) Azure Architect
8 6 (5.31%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Security Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Quantitative Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.54%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.85%) RESTful
2 9 (7.96%) OpenAPI
2 9 (7.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (7.96%) Spring
2 9 (7.96%) Spring Boot
2 9 (7.96%) Swagger
3 8 (7.08%) .NET
4 7 (6.19%) Spring Batch
4 7 (6.19%) Spring Security
5 4 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.54%) React
6 3 (2.65%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.65%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (2.65%) Kafka
6 3 (2.65%) LDAP
6 3 (2.65%) Node.js
6 3 (2.65%) PySpark
6 3 (2.65%) REST
7 2 (1.77%) Web Services
7 2 (1.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (5.31%) Low-Code
4 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.54%) Derivative
7 3 (2.65%) Clustering
7 3 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.65%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.77%) PKI
8 2 (1.77%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.77%) Replication
8 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.89%) Linux
2 10 (8.85%) Windows
3 9 (7.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (7.08%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.31%) Unix
6 3 (2.65%) Solaris
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.74%) DevOps
2 32 (28.32%) Agile
3 27 (23.89%) CI/CD
3 27 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (19.47%) Analytics
5 20 (17.70%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (15.93%) Visualisation
7 16 (14.16%) Design Patterns
7 16 (14.16%) High Availability
7 16 (14.16%) TDD
8 15 (13.27%) Migration
9 14 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (12.39%) Machine Learning
10 13 (11.50%) Cloud Security
10 13 (11.50%) Data Modelling
10 13 (11.50%) Software Engineering
11 12 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (9.73%) BDD
12 11 (9.73%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.51%) SQL
2 27 (23.89%) Java
3 24 (21.24%) Python
4 17 (15.04%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.85%) Bash
5 10 (8.85%) C#
5 10 (8.85%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.31%) PL/SQL
7 5 (4.42%) Bicep
7 5 (4.42%) Haskell
7 5 (4.42%) Scala
8 4 (3.54%) Groovy
8 4 (3.54%) OCaml
8 4 (3.54%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.65%) Go
9 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.77%) Perl
10 2 (1.77%) Ruby
11 1 (0.88%) C++
11 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.85%) Degree
4 8 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.31%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.54%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.54%) CESG Certified Professional
6 4 (3.54%) CISSP
6 4 (3.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 3 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.88%) CCNA
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.08%) GDPR
2 7 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.31%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.54%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.77%) NIST
5 2 (1.77%) QA
5 2 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.77%) SLA
5 2 (1.77%) WCAG
6 1 (0.88%) COBIT
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.88%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (20.35%) Docker
2 8 (7.08%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.88%) Ceph
6 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.88%) NFS
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.88%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.88%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 26 (23.01%) Kubernetes
2 14 (12.39%) Terraform
3 8 (7.08%) Ansible
4 3 (2.65%) QRadar
4 3 (2.65%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.77%) Control-M
5 2 (1.77%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.77%) Netcool
5 2 (1.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.88%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.88%) Nagios
6 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.88%) Puppet
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 19 (16.81%) Oracle
3 13 (11.50%) Google
4 7 (6.19%) Splunk
5 5 (4.42%) IBM
5 5 (4.42%) VMware
6 4 (3.54%) AppDynamics
6 4 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.54%) iManage
6 4 (3.54%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.65%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.65%) EMC
7 3 (2.65%) Murex
7 3 (2.65%) Qualys
8 2 (1.77%) BMC
8 2 (1.77%) Cisco
8 2 (1.77%) SAP
8 2 (1.77%) Serena
8 2 (1.77%) Sybase
8 2 (1.77%) TIBCO