Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in London

Private Cloud
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 326 357
Rank change year-on-year -65 +31 +51
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 49 54 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.40% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% 1.06% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 18
10th Percentile £451 £383 £358
25th Percentile £513 £600 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £584
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +11.35% -7.52%
75th Percentile £661 £750 £614
90th Percentile £695 £775 £719
England median daily rate £625 £600 £535
% change year-on-year +4.17% +12.15% -10.08%

All Generic Skills
London

Private 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,409 5,083 5,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.04% 37.32% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,648 3,351 3,850
10th Percentile £356 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £750
90th Percentile £800 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 117 80
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.75 £27.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -8.65% -13.99%
75th Percentile £59.12 £45.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -33.68% +11.76%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in London

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in London over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in London

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Private Cloud

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 4 August 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
Central London -14 10 £600 -7.69% 4
North London - 1 - -
West London - 1 - - 2
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (6.12%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) CloudStack
3 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.04%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.04%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) AWS
2 10 (20.41%) GCP
3 9 (18.37%) Azure
4 4 (8.16%) IaaS
5 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.04%) Boomi
7 1 (2.04%) Google Ads
7 1 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Firewall
1 3 (6.12%) VXLAN
2 2 (4.08%) VLAN
3 1 (2.04%) 3GPP
3 1 (2.04%) 4G
3 1 (2.04%) 5G
3 1 (2.04%) BGP
3 1 (2.04%) DMZ
3 1 (2.04%) DNS
3 1 (2.04%) HTTP
3 1 (2.04%) Internet
3 1 (2.04%) LAN
3 1 (2.04%) LTE
3 1 (2.04%) NAS
3 1 (2.04%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.04%) SAN
3 1 (2.04%) SSL
3 1 (2.04%) VSAN
3 1 (2.04%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.16%) Git
3 2 (4.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 15 (30.61%) Finance
2 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.16%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Law
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
5 2 (4.08%) Police
6 1 (2.04%) Billing
6 1 (2.04%) Electronics
6 1 (2.04%) Local Government
6 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Project Manager
2 12 (24.49%) Architect
3 9 (18.37%) Technical Manager
3 9 (18.37%) Technical Project Manager
4 8 (16.33%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
5 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 6 (12.24%) Lead
6 6 (12.24%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (12.24%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
7 5 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Migration Manager
8 4 (8.16%) Migration Project Manager
8 4 (8.16%) Security Architect
9 3 (6.12%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) SAP Manager
9 3 (6.12%) SAP Project Manager
10 2 (4.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) cloud-init
1 2 (4.08%) RESTful
2 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.04%) Middleware
2 1 (2.04%) REST
2 1 (2.04%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.04%) Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.04%) IoT
5 1 (2.04%) PKI
5 1 (2.04%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) AIX
2 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Solaris
2 3 (6.12%) Unix
3 2 (4.08%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.08%) Windows
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
2 13 (26.53%) DevOps
2 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (26.53%) Migration
3 12 (24.49%) Agile
4 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (12.24%) Configuration Management
5 6 (12.24%) Containerisation
5 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
7 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.16%) Data Protection
7 4 (8.16%) Decision-Making
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.16%) Project Management
7 4 (8.16%) Security Architecture
7 4 (8.16%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) Python
2 3 (6.12%) C
2 3 (6.12%) C++
2 3 (6.12%) Perl
3 2 (4.08%) SQL
4 1 (2.04%) Bicep
4 1 (2.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (51.02%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) DV Cleared
3 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.24%) CISSP
5 3 (6.12%) CISM
5 3 (6.12%) PMI Certification
5 3 (6.12%) PMP
5 3 (6.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.08%) Degree
7 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CCSP
7 1 (2.04%) CEH
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.04%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (6.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (6.12%) NCSC
2 2 (4.08%) NIST
2 2 (4.08%) PMO
2 2 (4.08%) SLA
3 1 (2.04%) COBIT
3 1 (2.04%) GxP
3 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.08%) Ceph
3 2 (4.08%) KVM
3 2 (4.08%) NFS
3 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (30.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.45%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) Ansible
4 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.12%) Puppet
5 2 (4.08%) SELinux
6 1 (2.04%) Grafana
6 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (2.04%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) SAP
2 3 (6.12%) Google
2 3 (6.12%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.12%) SaltStack
2 3 (6.12%) VMware
3 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.08%) Splunk
4 1 (2.04%) Ariba
4 1 (2.04%) Dell
4 1 (2.04%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.04%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.04%) Huawei
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.04%) Nokia
4 1 (2.04%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.04%) Samsung