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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 347 395
Rank change year-on-year +16 +48 +8
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 42 30 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% 0.55% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 42
10th Percentile £380 £417 £469
25th Percentile £501 £514 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £570 £583
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -2.15% -2.92%
75th Percentile £766 £614 £650
90th Percentile £789 £701 £723
England median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.65%

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 5,151 5,497 7,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.25% 33.71% 35.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 3,637 5,565
10th Percentile £336 £325 £350
25th Percentile £442 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 67 85
10th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £17.27
25th Percentile £23.71 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.62 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.03% +7.19% -0.42%
75th Percentile £46.55 £54.38 £53.25
90th Percentile £70.88 £71.50 £74.46
England median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +5 8 £650 +9.70% 3
East London - 2 £750 -
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) nginx
2 2 (4.76%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.76%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.76%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.38%) JBoss
3 1 (2.38%) MQSeries
3 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.38%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.38%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) AWS
3 6 (14.29%) GCP
3 6 (14.29%) SaaS
4 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) GitHub
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.14%) IaaS
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.76%) PaaS
6 2 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (11.90%) HTTP
2 5 (11.90%) SSL
3 4 (9.52%) DNS
3 4 (9.52%) Firewall
4 3 (7.14%) VPN
5 2 (4.76%) BGP
5 2 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (4.76%) IPsec
5 2 (4.76%) LAN
5 2 (4.76%) Multicast
5 2 (4.76%) OSPF
5 2 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (4.76%) VLAN
5 2 (4.76%) VXLAN
5 2 (4.76%) WAN
6 1 (2.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Big Data
2 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.38%) DB2
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Bitbucket
2 6 (14.29%) GitLab
3 5 (11.90%) Robot Framework
4 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.14%) Git
6 2 (4.76%) JIRA
6 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.38%) RStudio
General
1 18 (42.86%) Finance
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.76%) Law
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Front Office
6 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Military
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Architect
2 12 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Network Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) SAP Architect
6 3 (7.14%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
7 2 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Juniper Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) .NET
2 3 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (4.76%) CSS
3 2 (4.76%) HTML
3 2 (4.76%) Middleware
3 2 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.38%) Kafka
4 1 (2.38%) pytest
4 1 (2.38%) RAML
4 1 (2.38%) SAP Basis
4 1 (2.38%) SOAP
4 1 (2.38%) Web Services
4 1 (2.38%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.38%) Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) CMDB
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) Derivative
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.38%) Equities
5 1 (2.38%) FMCG
5 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (35.71%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Unix
3 6 (14.29%) Windows
4 5 (11.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.76%) CentOS
5 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) DevOps
2 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 9 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (19.05%) SDLC
4 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (14.29%) Agile
5 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 6 (14.29%) High Availability
5 6 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 6 (14.29%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (11.90%) Load Balancing
7 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (9.52%) Migration
7 4 (9.52%) Test Automation
8 3 (7.14%) Secure Coding
8 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Python
2 6 (14.29%) C#
2 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
3 5 (11.90%) Perl
4 4 (9.52%) SQL
5 3 (7.14%) Go
6 2 (4.76%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) Rust
7 1 (2.38%) Bicep
7 1 (2.38%) R
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) BC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) JNCIA
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) GIAC
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.14%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.76%) Docker
4 2 (4.76%) Firmware
4 2 (4.76%) vCloud
4 2 (4.76%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (4.76%) vSphere
5 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Ansible
1 13 (30.95%) Terraform
2 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Kibana
4 2 (4.76%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.38%) Argo
5 1 (2.38%) Grafana
5 1 (2.38%) Packer
5 1 (2.38%) Rancher
5 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.38%) vRealize
5 1 (2.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) F5
1 9 (21.43%) VMware
2 6 (14.29%) SAP
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.52%) Oracle
5 3 (7.14%) Citrix
5 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.76%) Ariba
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco
6 2 (4.76%) Concur
6 2 (4.76%) Google
6 2 (4.76%) Juniper
6 2 (4.76%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.76%) Splunk
7 1 (2.38%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.38%) Calypso
7 1 (2.38%) IBM
7 1 (2.38%) Murex
7 1 (2.38%) Reuters
7 1 (2.38%) Sophis