Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 September 2020

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Private Cloud over the 6 months to 23 September 2020 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Private Cloud
England > London
6 months to
23 Sep 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 296 487 434
Rank change year-on-year +191 -53 +35
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 62 85 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.22% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 0.65% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 51 130
Median daily rate £550 £600 £555
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +3.74%
10th Percentile £401 £425 £425
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
England median daily rate £507 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.43% -2.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +40.00% -48.72%

Private Cloud is in the Generic IT Skills 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 generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
London
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,257 13,059 16,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.30% 33.92% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,611 9,061 11,638
Median daily rate £525 £525 £517
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +1.55% +3.40%
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
90th Percentile £750 £700 £699
England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 197 248
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.50 £23.94
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +48.94% -1.84% +9.07%
10th Percentile £17.00 £12.76 £13.31
90th Percentile £50.39 £53.00 £54.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.35 £20.50
% change year-on-year +56.63% +9.00% +2.50%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in London

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in London

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in London over the 6 months to 23 September 2020.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in London

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud within the London region over the 6 months to 23 September 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
Central London +139 8 £550 +10.00% 3
East London - 1 £135 - 1
Private Cloud
England

For the 6 months to 23 September 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Private Cloud also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Private Cloud.

1 33 (53.23%) Azure
2 31 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 29 (46.77%) Microsoft
3 29 (46.77%) AWS
4 24 (38.71%) DevOps
5 23 (37.10%) Linux
6 22 (35.48%) Open Source
7 21 (33.87%) Windows
8 20 (32.26%) Python
9 19 (30.65%) SQL Server
9 19 (30.65%) Finance
10 18 (29.03%) C#
10 18 (29.03%) .NET
10 18 (29.03%) Git (software)
11 17 (27.42%) Security Cleared
11 17 (27.42%) Kubernetes
12 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
12 16 (25.81%) Web Services
13 15 (24.19%) DNS
13 15 (24.19%) Ansible
14 13 (20.97%) High Availability
14 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
14 13 (20.97%) Public Cloud
14 13 (20.97%) Microservices
15 12 (19.35%) Java
16 11 (17.74%) Data Centre
16 11 (17.74%) Terraform
16 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
17 10 (16.13%) Active Directory
17 10 (16.13%) JavaScript

Private Cloud
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.06%) Skype for Business
3 2 (3.23%) CMS
3 2 (3.23%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.23%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.61%) IIS
4 1 (1.61%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (4.84%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.61%) FINCAD Analytics
Cloud Services
1 33 (53.23%) Azure
2 29 (46.77%) AWS
3 10 (16.13%) Office 365
3 10 (16.13%) OpenShift
4 9 (14.52%) GCP
5 7 (11.29%) Azure Stack
6 6 (9.68%) SaaS
7 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (6.45%) Serverless
8 3 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (4.84%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.84%) IaaS
8 3 (4.84%) PaaS
8 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (24.19%) DNS
2 6 (9.68%) Anycast
2 6 (9.68%) BGP
2 6 (9.68%) DHCP
2 6 (9.68%) HTTP
2 6 (9.68%) VRRP
3 5 (8.06%) Firewall
3 5 (8.06%) Skype
4 4 (6.45%) DMZ
5 3 (4.84%) WLAN
6 2 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.23%) LAN
6 2 (3.23%) SAN
6 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.23%) WAN
7 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.61%) Multicast
7 1 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.45%) SQL Server 2017
3 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.84%) Power BI
4 2 (3.23%) Big Data
4 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.23%) KDB
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server 2014
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server 2016
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.61%) Presto
Development Applications
1 18 (29.03%) Git (software)
2 8 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.68%) GitLab
4 4 (6.45%) Selenium
4 4 (6.45%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.84%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.23%) Burp Suite
6 2 (3.23%) Maven
6 2 (3.23%) sqlmap
7 1 (1.61%) RStudio
7 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 19 (30.65%) Finance
2 5 (8.06%) Financial Institution
2 5 (8.06%) Front Office
3 4 (6.45%) Police
4 3 (4.84%) Banking
4 3 (4.84%) Legal
5 2 (3.23%) French Language
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Developer
2 11 (17.74%) Architect
3 10 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) .NET Developer
6 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (9.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Consultant
8 4 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Project Manager
8 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.03%) .NET
2 16 (25.81%) Web Services
3 9 (14.52%) .NET Framework
4 8 (12.90%) AngularJS
4 8 (12.90%) React
5 7 (11.29%) .NET Core
5 7 (11.29%) REST
6 6 (9.68%) XML
7 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET
7 5 (8.06%) JSON
8 4 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (6.45%) Backbone.js
8 4 (6.45%) HTML
8 4 (6.45%) KnockoutJS
8 4 (6.45%) Node.js
9 3 (4.84%) CSS
9 3 (4.84%) jQuery
9 3 (4.84%) OAuth
9 3 (4.84%) SOAP
9 3 (4.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Public Cloud
2 11 (17.74%) Data Centre
3 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (8.06%) Hedge funds
6 4 (6.45%) Blog
6 4 (6.45%) Derivative
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
8 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
8 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
8 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (3.23%) Fixed Income
8 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
8 2 (3.23%) Replication
9 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.61%) Equities
9 1 (1.61%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.61%) User Experience
9 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (37.10%) Linux
2 21 (33.87%) Windows
3 9 (14.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (11.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.68%) VMS
6 5 (8.06%) Unix
7 3 (4.84%) CentOS
8 2 (3.23%) Android
8 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
8 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.23%) Windows 2000
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 24 (38.71%) DevOps
3 22 (35.48%) Open Source
4 13 (20.97%) High Availability
4 13 (20.97%) Microservices
5 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (16.13%) Analytics
6 10 (16.13%) Unit Testing
7 9 (14.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (12.90%) Configuration Management
8 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (9.68%) Coaching
10 6 (9.68%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 6 (9.68%) Migration
10 6 (9.68%) Test Automation
11 5 (8.06%) MVC
11 5 (8.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) Python
2 18 (29.03%) C#
3 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
4 12 (19.35%) Java
5 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 10 (16.13%) SQL
6 4 (6.45%) C++
6 4 (6.45%) PHP
7 3 (4.84%) Perl
8 2 (3.23%) Apple Swift
8 2 (3.23%) C
8 2 (3.23%) Go
8 2 (3.23%) Objective-C
8 2 (3.23%) R
8 2 (3.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.61%) CCDP
5 1 (1.61%) CCIE
5 1 (1.61%) CCNP
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.61%) MCSE
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.90%) Docker
3 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.23%) vSphere
5 1 (1.61%) KVM
5 1 (1.61%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (27.42%) Kubernetes
2 15 (24.19%) Ansible
3 11 (17.74%) Terraform
4 6 (9.68%) Opscode Chef
4 6 (9.68%) Puppet
4 6 (9.68%) Salt
5 2 (3.23%) Nagios
5 2 (3.23%) SCOM
5 2 (3.23%) vRealize
5 2 (3.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.61%) Istio
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.61%) SCCM
6 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 29 (46.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) VMware
3 7 (11.29%) Cisco
3 7 (11.29%) Oracle
3 7 (11.29%) Red Hat
4 6 (9.68%) Infoblox
5 4 (6.45%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.84%) Bloomberg
6 3 (4.84%) Google
7 2 (3.23%) Citrix
7 2 (3.23%) HP
7 2 (3.23%) IBM
7 2 (3.23%) Informatica
8 1 (1.61%) Blue Coat
8 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.61%) CommVault
8 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.61%) Intel
8 1 (1.61%) NetApp
8 1 (1.61%) Perforce