Cloud Computing Contracts in London

Cloud Computing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 283 383
Rank change year-on-year +14 +100 -88
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 128 213 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.81% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 2.08% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 144 140
10th Percentile £363 £425 £424
25th Percentile £454 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £717 £687 £675
90th Percentile £803 £768 £751
England median daily rate £600 £575 £552
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.17% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
England median hourly rate £18.75 £18.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% -28.85% +38.67%

All Cloud Skills
London

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,728 10,235 16,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.28% 38.94% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,966 7,484 12,031
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £769
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 85 85
10th Percentile £17.16 £20.00 £19.75
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +17.28% +8.00%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £58.00 £88.30 £79.20
England median hourly rate £20.97 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -35.08% +51.55% +0.95%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 +38 19 £475 -20.83% 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 8 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (2.34%) Apache
2 3 (2.34%) CMS
2 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Endur
2 5 (3.91%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (2.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.56%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 60 (46.88%) Azure
2 57 (44.53%) AWS
3 27 (21.09%) GCP
4 23 (17.97%) PaaS
5 21 (16.41%) IaaS
6 19 (14.84%) SaaS
7 12 (9.38%) Nutanix
8 9 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (6.25%) Rubrik
10 7 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.47%) Entra ID
10 7 (5.47%) Serverless
11 4 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (2.34%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.06%) Firewall
2 13 (10.16%) DNS
2 13 (10.16%) TCP/IP
3 11 (8.59%) NAS
3 11 (8.59%) SAN
4 10 (7.81%) WAN
5 9 (7.03%) VPN
6 8 (6.25%) DHCP
6 8 (6.25%) Kerberos
6 8 (6.25%) LAN
6 8 (6.25%) VLAN
7 6 (4.69%) InfiniBand
7 6 (4.69%) Network Security
7 6 (4.69%) WLAN
8 5 (3.91%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (3.91%) Internet
8 5 (3.91%) IPsec
8 5 (3.91%) SSH
8 5 (3.91%) Wireless
9 4 (3.13%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.91%) Big Data
4 5 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.13%) MySQL
6 3 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.34%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.56%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.56%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.78%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.78%) Flink
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.78%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 13 (10.16%) Git
2 11 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.81%) JIRA
4 9 (7.03%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.34%) JMeter
5 3 (2.34%) LoadRunner
5 3 (2.34%) NeoLoad
6 2 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.56%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.56%) GitLab
6 2 (1.56%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.56%) webpack
7 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.78%) Mercurial
General
1 38 (29.69%) Finance
2 29 (22.66%) Social Skills
3 26 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.03%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.25%) Law
7 7 (5.47%) Marketing
8 6 (4.69%) Banking
8 6 (4.69%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.91%) Electronics
10 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.34%) Legal
12 2 (1.56%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.78%) French Language
13 1 (0.78%) Games
13 1 (0.78%) German Language
13 1 (0.78%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.78%) Retail
13 1 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (16.41%) Architect
2 17 (13.28%) Senior
3 12 (9.38%) Analyst
4 10 (7.81%) Consultant
4 10 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (6.25%) Developer
5 8 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 7 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.69%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Risk Analyst
9 4 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Chief Information Security Officer
9 4 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Network Specialist
9 4 (3.13%) Product Manager
9 4 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.38%) LDAP
2 9 (7.03%) HTML
3 8 (6.25%) React
4 7 (5.47%) .NET
4 7 (5.47%) Middleware
5 5 (3.91%) JSON
6 4 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.13%) XML
7 3 (2.34%) EDI
7 3 (2.34%) IDoc
7 3 (2.34%) Kafka
7 3 (2.34%) Node.js
7 3 (2.34%) RESTful
7 3 (2.34%) Web Services
8 2 (1.56%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.56%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.56%) Material-UI
8 2 (1.56%) OAuth
8 2 (1.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.03%) Clustering
3 8 (6.25%) Replication
4 7 (5.47%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.91%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.13%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.13%) PKI
7 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.56%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.56%) IVR
8 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.56%) NHS
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.97%) Linux
2 22 (17.19%) Windows
3 14 (10.94%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (7.03%) Unix
6 8 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (6.25%) Solaris
7 4 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.56%) CentOS
8 2 (1.56%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.56%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.25%) Agile
1 40 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (27.34%) DevOps
3 22 (17.19%) Computer Science
4 21 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (13.28%) CI/CD
6 16 (12.50%) Change Management
6 16 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (12.50%) High Availability
7 14 (10.94%) Data Security
7 14 (10.94%) Microservices
8 13 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (10.16%) Migration
9 12 (9.38%) Customer Experience
10 11 (8.59%) Analytics
10 11 (8.59%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (8.59%) Machine Learning
10 11 (8.59%) Risk Management
10 11 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (8.59%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (22.66%) Python
2 26 (20.31%) SQL
3 19 (14.84%) PowerShell
4 17 (13.28%) Java
5 14 (10.94%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.16%) C#
7 11 (8.59%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.81%) Bash
9 8 (6.25%) C
10 5 (3.91%) ABAP
11 4 (3.13%) Go
12 3 (2.34%) C++
13 2 (1.56%) Clojure
13 2 (1.56%) Haskell
13 2 (1.56%) Perl
13 2 (1.56%) Rust
13 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.78%) PHP
14 1 (0.78%) Ruby
14 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (17.19%) Degree
2 18 (14.06%) Security Cleared
3 15 (11.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (11.72%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.34%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.34%) CCIE
6 2 (1.56%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.56%) CITP
6 2 (1.56%) CSPO
6 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CCNA
7 1 (0.78%) CCNP
7 1 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.78%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.59%) GDPR
2 9 (7.03%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.78%) EMIR
6 1 (0.78%) FATCA
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.78%) MiFID
6 1 (0.78%) NCSC
6 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.78%) QA
6 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (14.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (10.94%) Active Directory
3 13 (10.16%) Docker
4 9 (7.03%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.13%) NFS
5 4 (3.13%) vSphere
6 3 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.56%) KVM
7 2 (1.56%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.78%) Firmware
8 1 (0.78%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.28%) Terraform
3 16 (12.50%) Ansible
4 8 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (6.25%) Netcool
4 8 (6.25%) Tivoli
4 8 (6.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.91%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.34%) Kibana
8 2 (1.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.78%) Grafana
9 1 (0.78%) Nagios
9 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.78%) yum
9 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (25.78%) Microsoft
2 26 (20.31%) Oracle
3 19 (14.84%) VMware
4 16 (12.50%) Cisco
5 11 (8.59%) Google
5 11 (8.59%) Splunk
6 10 (7.81%) SAP
6 10 (7.81%) ServiceNow
7 9 (7.03%) IBM
8 8 (6.25%) CyberArk
8 8 (6.25%) Dell
8 8 (6.25%) EMC
8 8 (6.25%) HP
8 8 (6.25%) Isilon
8 8 (6.25%) Qualys
8 8 (6.25%) Serena
9 5 (3.91%) Foundry
9 5 (3.91%) Palantir
9 5 (3.91%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.91%) Triple Point