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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 331 362
Rank change year-on-year -48 +31 +23
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 67 41 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 0.78% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 23
10th Percentile £413 £380 £471
25th Percentile £464 £501 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £653 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +13.48% -1.29%
75th Percentile £652 £766 £632
90th Percentile £700 £789 £696
England median daily rate £600 £575 £560
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% +2.75%

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 7,792 5,240 5,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.29% 38.84% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,940 3,377 3,551
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £731
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 123 71
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -18.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £57.44 £46.88 £55.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £76.50 £71.88
England median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +16.67% -47.69% +24.19%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -20 12 £600 -7.69% 11
East London +3 1 - -
North London - 1 - -
West London - 1 - - 6
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 2 (2.99%) Apache
1 2 (2.99%) CloudStack
2 1 (1.49%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (16.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.48%) SAP CO
2 3 (4.48%) SAP FI
2 3 (4.48%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.88%) AWS
2 14 (20.90%) Azure
2 14 (20.90%) GCP
3 8 (11.94%) IaaS
4 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.46%) GitHub
4 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (7.46%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.97%) Azure AKS
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (5.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.48%) Datadog
6 3 (4.48%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.48%) PaaS
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.49%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) Firewall
2 2 (2.99%) NAS
2 2 (2.99%) SAN
2 2 (2.99%) VLAN
2 2 (2.99%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.49%) Internet
3 1 (1.49%) LAN
3 1 (1.49%) SSL
3 1 (1.49%) VSAN
3 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.96%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) GitLab
General
1 20 (29.85%) Finance
2 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.96%) Banking
4 5 (7.46%) Legal
4 5 (7.46%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Automotive
5 3 (4.48%) Law
5 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Police
7 1 (1.49%) Local Government
7 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Architect
2 15 (22.39%) Project Manager
3 11 (16.42%) Technical Manager
3 11 (16.42%) Technical Project Manager
4 8 (11.94%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 7 (10.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Manager
5 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 7 (10.45%) Lead
6 6 (8.96%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (8.96%) Migration Manager
6 6 (8.96%) Migration Project Manager
6 6 (8.96%) Security Architect
6 6 (8.96%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (8.96%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
7 4 (5.97%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Platform Architect
7 4 (5.97%) SAP Architect
7 4 (5.97%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.39%) Terraform
2 4 (5.97%) Pulumi
3 2 (2.99%) cloud-init
3 2 (2.99%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.49%) Kafka
4 1 (1.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.88%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.96%) Public Cloud
3 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Clustering
4 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) PKI
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Replication
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.93%) Linux
2 6 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (8.96%) Unix
3 3 (4.48%) AIX
3 3 (4.48%) Solaris
3 3 (4.48%) Windows
4 2 (2.99%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.49%) VMS
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.85%) CI/CD
2 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (25.37%) Migration
3 15 (22.39%) Configuration Management
3 15 (22.39%) DevOps
4 13 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (17.91%) Agile
5 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
6 11 (16.42%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (13.43%) Roadmaps
9 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (10.45%) Observability
11 6 (8.96%) Open Source
12 5 (7.46%) Architecture Governance
12 5 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (7.46%) Runbook
12 5 (7.46%) Security Architecture
12 5 (7.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) Python
2 8 (11.94%) C
3 6 (8.96%) C++
3 6 (8.96%) Perl
4 5 (7.46%) Bicep
5 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.87%) DV Cleared
3 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) CISSP
5 3 (4.48%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.48%) PMP
5 3 (4.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.99%) CISM
7 1 (1.49%) Degree
7 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (4.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (2.99%) NCSC
3 1 (1.49%) GxP
3 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.49%) PMO
3 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.97%) Docker
3 2 (2.99%) Ceph
3 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.99%) KVM
3 2 (2.99%) NFS
3 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.93%) Ansible
3 9 (13.43%) Progress Chef
3 9 (13.43%) Puppet
4 5 (7.46%) Grafana
4 5 (7.46%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.99%) SELinux
6 1 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.49%) SCOM
6 1 (1.49%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) SAP
1 12 (17.91%) VMware
2 9 (13.43%) SaltStack
3 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.45%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.96%) Ariba
5 4 (5.97%) Google
6 3 (4.48%) Concur
6 3 (4.48%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.99%) Dell
7 2 (2.99%) Splunk
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco
8 1 (1.49%) Computacenter
8 1 (1.49%) Veeam