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 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 303 372
Rank change year-on-year -70 +69 -9
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 45 48 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.40% 0.097%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.68% 1.10% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 13
10th Percentile £463 £404 £471
25th Percentile £581 £598 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £642 £614 £638
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% -3.73% -8.93%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £703
90th Percentile £688 £751 £706
England median daily rate £600 £600 £538
% change year-on-year - +11.52% -14.26%

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 6,590 4,368 5,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.71% 36.10% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,194 2,915 4,095
10th Percentile £358 £336 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 86 146
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.46
25th Percentile £22.66 £22.74 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £27.42
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +19.44% -21.23%
75th Percentile £61.38 £48.44 £50.63
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £34.50 £36.27
% change year-on-year +27.42% -4.89% +61.32%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -10 8 £625 -0.99% 5
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 4 (8.89%) Apache
2 3 (6.67%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.44%) CloudStack
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) AWS
2 8 (17.78%) GCP
3 6 (13.33%) Azure
4 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.22%) IaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) VSAN
1 3 (6.67%) VXLAN
2 2 (4.44%) Calico
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) VLAN
3 1 (2.22%) 3GPP
3 1 (2.22%) 4G
3 1 (2.22%) 5G
3 1 (2.22%) BGP
3 1 (2.22%) DMZ
3 1 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) Internet
3 1 (2.22%) LAN
3 1 (2.22%) LTE
3 1 (2.22%) NAS
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.22%) SAN
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) RStudio
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Billing
4 2 (4.44%) Law
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Electronics
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Social Science
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Principal Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Project Manager
3 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared Project Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Developer
6 3 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Junior
7 2 (4.44%) Junior Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) REST
2 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.44%) cloud-init
2 2 (4.44%) OAuth
2 2 (4.44%) RESTful
2 2 (4.44%) SAML
2 2 (4.44%) SOAP
2 2 (4.44%) Spring
2 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.22%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (2.22%) IoT
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) Replication
6 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.22%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) AIX
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
1 3 (6.67%) Solaris
2 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.22%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
2 14 (31.11%) DevOps
2 14 (31.11%) Migration
3 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (15.56%) Agile
5 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.11%) Microservices
6 5 (11.11%) Project Management
7 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.89%) Observability
7 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (8.89%) Threat Modelling
8 3 (6.67%) Decision-Making
8 3 (6.67%) Impact Analysis
8 3 (6.67%) Impact Assessments
8 3 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (6.67%) Thought Leadership
8 3 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) Java
1 4 (8.89%) Python
2 3 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) CISSP
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.44%) Degree
5 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.44%) PMP
5 2 (4.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CCSP
6 1 (2.22%) CEH
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CISM
6 1 (2.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) NCSC
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
2 2 (4.44%) PMO
2 2 (4.44%) SLA
3 1 (2.22%) COBIT
3 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.67%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.44%) Ceph
4 2 (4.44%) Docker
4 2 (4.44%) KVM
4 2 (4.44%) NFS
4 2 (4.44%) vSphere
5 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (24.44%) Terraform
3 4 (8.89%) Ansible
4 2 (4.44%) Istio
4 2 (4.44%) SELinux
4 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) Rancher
5 1 (2.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) VMware
2 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.67%) Google
3 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.44%) Arista
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco
4 2 (4.44%) Guidewire
4 2 (4.44%) Wind River
5 1 (2.22%) Dell
5 1 (2.22%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.22%) Huawei
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.22%) Nokia
5 1 (2.22%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.22%) Samsung
5 1 (2.22%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk