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 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 319 349
Rank change year-on-year -18 +30 +41
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 44 47 47
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% 0.94% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 35
10th Percentile £464 £509 £465
25th Percentile £530 £521 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £596 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -0.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £697 £650 £655
90th Percentile £783 £686 £708
England median daily rate £575 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -12.00%

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 5,551 5,009 6,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.50% 34.27% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,587 3,182 4,321
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 63 110
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.30 £18.76
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.15 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.77% +15.00% -11.30%
75th Percentile £46.75 £59.75 £49.68
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.27
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.25 £43.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% -17.14% +32.58%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -3 7 £653 +0.38% 1
East London - 2 £750 - 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 (6.82%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) MQSeries
2 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.27%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.27%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) AWS
2 5 (11.36%) GitHub
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.82%) PaaS
3 3 (6.82%) SaaS
4 2 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) Firewall
1 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 5 (11.36%) HTTP
2 5 (11.36%) SSL
3 3 (6.82%) VSAN
4 2 (4.55%) Calico
4 2 (4.55%) DNS
5 1 (2.27%) BGP
5 1 (2.27%) DMZ
5 1 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.27%) Internet
5 1 (2.27%) Network Security
5 1 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.27%) VPN
5 1 (2.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Redis
2 1 (2.27%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) GitLab
1 5 (11.36%) Robot Framework
2 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.82%) RStudio
3 2 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.27%) Git
General
1 13 (29.55%) Finance
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Banking
2 4 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 3 (6.82%) Social Science
4 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Billing
5 1 (2.27%) Front Office
5 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Architect
2 10 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Principal Architect
4 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Security Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) SAP Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (6.82%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) SAML
2 3 (6.82%) OpenID
2 3 (6.82%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.27%) Faiss
3 1 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.27%) Kafka
3 1 (2.27%) LangChain
3 1 (2.27%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.27%) Middleware
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth
3 1 (2.27%) Ollama
3 1 (2.27%) pytest
3 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.27%) SAP Basis
3 1 (2.27%) SOAP
3 1 (2.27%) Spring
3 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.27%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 4 (9.09%) PKI
2 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) FMCG
3 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) CUDA
4 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Derivative
4 1 (2.27%) Equities
4 1 (2.27%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.27%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.73%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) Unix
3 4 (9.09%) Windows
4 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
2 15 (34.09%) DevOps
3 14 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 7 (15.91%) Configuration Management
5 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (13.64%) Low Latency
6 6 (13.64%) Migration
6 6 (13.64%) Ultra-Low Latency
7 5 (11.36%) High Availability
7 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (11.36%) Load Balancing
7 5 (11.36%) SDLC
7 5 (11.36%) Security Architecture
7 5 (11.36%) Test Automation
8 4 (9.09%) Agile
8 4 (9.09%) Observability
9 3 (6.82%) Information Security
9 3 (6.82%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) Python
2 5 (11.36%) Perl
3 4 (9.09%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) Bicep
6 1 (2.27%) R
6 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) BC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) CCNP
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) GIAC
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) NCSC
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.55%) vSphere
5 1 (2.27%) Docker
5 1 (2.27%) GPFS
5 1 (2.27%) Lustre
5 1 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (45.45%) Terraform
2 15 (34.09%) Ansible
3 14 (31.82%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.82%) Rancher
5 2 (4.55%) Grafana
5 2 (4.55%) Istio
6 1 (2.27%) Argo
6 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.27%) Kibana
6 1 (2.27%) Packer
6 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.27%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) Salt
6 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.27%) vRealize
6 1 (2.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (2.27%) VxRail
6 1 (2.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) VMware
2 7 (15.91%) SAP
3 6 (13.64%) F5
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.82%) Ariba
5 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.82%) Splunk
6 2 (4.55%) Arista
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco
6 2 (4.55%) Citrix
6 2 (4.55%) Concur
6 2 (4.55%) NVIDIA
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (4.55%) Wind River
7 1 (2.27%) Calypso
7 1 (2.27%) Cribl.io
7 1 (2.27%) Dell
7 1 (2.27%) Murex
7 1 (2.27%) Reuters