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 7 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 306 358
Rank change year-on-year -42 +52 +25
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 34 51 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 1.09% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 32
10th Percentile £463 £509 £463
25th Percentile £500 £526 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.42% - -17.24%
75th Percentile £670 £650 £674
90th Percentile £676 £686 £713
England median daily rate £570 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -12.31% +18.18% -15.38%

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 5,621 4,694 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.78% 34.40% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 2,959 4,350
10th Percentile £343 £319 £300
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £813
England median daily rate £508 £547 £548
% change year-on-year -7.22% -0.09% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 59 177
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.41 £25.03 £19.47
Median hourly rate £27.71 £39.04 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.02% +35.79% -12.05%
75th Percentile £53.44 £62.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.24 £65.70
England median hourly rate £31.18 £39.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -20.05% +20.00% +44.54%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -11 4 £553 -15.00%
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 (8.82%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.94%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.94%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) GitHub
3 4 (11.76%) OpenShift
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.82%) PaaS
4 3 (8.82%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) VSAN
3 2 (5.88%) Calico
4 1 (2.94%) BGP
4 1 (2.94%) DMZ
4 1 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.94%) Internet
4 1 (2.94%) Network Security
4 1 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.94%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Redis
1 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.94%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) GitLab
2 4 (11.76%) RStudio
3 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) Git
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Social Science
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Law
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Billing
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Architect
2 11 (32.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Principal Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Security Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) SAML
2 4 (11.76%) REST
3 3 (8.82%) OpenID
4 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.88%) OAuth
4 2 (5.88%) Spring
4 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.94%) Faiss
5 1 (2.94%) LangChain
5 1 (2.94%) LangGraph
5 1 (2.94%) Ollama
5 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.94%) SOAP
5 1 (2.94%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
1 4 (11.76%) PKI
2 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) FMCG
3 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Clustering
4 1 (2.94%) CUDA
4 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.94%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
2 16 (47.06%) DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (23.53%) Migration
5 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 6 (17.65%) Security Architecture
6 5 (14.71%) Observability
7 3 (8.82%) Boundary Protection
7 3 (8.82%) Change Management
7 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security
7 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps
7 3 (8.82%) Information Security
7 3 (8.82%) ISMS
7 3 (8.82%) Microservices
7 3 (8.82%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (8.82%) Project Management
7 3 (8.82%) Security Management
7 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (5.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) Java
3 2 (5.88%) Bash
3 2 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
5 1 (2.94%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) NCSC
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.82%) VMware NSX
4 2 (5.88%) vSphere
5 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.94%) Docker
5 1 (2.94%) GPFS
5 1 (2.94%) Lustre
5 1 (2.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (38.24%) Terraform
3 7 (20.59%) Ansible
4 4 (11.76%) Rancher
5 2 (5.88%) Istio
5 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.94%) Argo
6 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.94%) Puppet
6 1 (2.94%) Salt
6 1 (2.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) VMware
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.76%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) Arista
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco
3 2 (5.88%) NVIDIA
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
3 2 (5.88%) Wind River
4 1 (2.94%) Ariba
4 1 (2.94%) Cribl.io
4 1 (2.94%) Dell
4 1 (2.94%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.94%) IFS
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.94%) Veeam