Private Cloud Contracts 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 377 364
Rank change year-on-year +82 -13 +45
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 58 14 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.079% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 0.24% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 107
10th Percentile £558 £437 £498
25th Percentile £600 £572 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £641 £725
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -11.55% +25.00%
75th Percentile £700 £693 £820
90th Percentile £770 £710 £850
England median daily rate £615 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +14.31% -17.23% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £64.00
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £78.00
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 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in London.

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in London

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in London

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 May 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 +16 13 £650 - 9
South London - 1 £600 -
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 9 (15.52%) OpenStack
2 4 (6.90%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) JBoss
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.72%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.45%) assyst
2 2 (3.45%) SAP CO
2 2 (3.45%) SAP FI
2 2 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.72%) SAP LE
3 1 (1.72%) SAP MII
3 1 (1.72%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.72%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.72%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.72%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 27 (46.55%) Azure
2 19 (32.76%) AWS
3 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (20.69%) IaaS
5 11 (18.97%) PaaS
6 10 (17.24%) SaaS
7 4 (6.90%) OpenShift
8 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Stack
9 2 (3.45%) GCP
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.72%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) DNS
1 3 (5.17%) Network Security
1 3 (5.17%) VSAN
2 2 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (3.45%) SNMP
3 1 (1.72%) 3G
3 1 (1.72%) 4G
3 1 (1.72%) 5G
3 1 (1.72%) LTE
3 1 (1.72%) VLAN
3 1 (1.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Big Data
2 4 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.45%) CockroachDB
4 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Redis
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.72%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Bitbucket
2 3 (5.17%) GitLab
2 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.17%) SonarQube
2 3 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 15 (25.86%) Finance
2 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Law
6 3 (5.17%) Legal
6 3 (5.17%) Retail
7 2 (3.45%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (53.45%) Architect
2 15 (25.86%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Architect
4 9 (15.52%) Lead
5 7 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Senior
6 6 (10.34%) Senior Architect
6 6 (10.34%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (8.62%) Azure Architect
7 5 (8.62%) Technical Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Administrator
9 3 (5.17%) Consultant
9 3 (5.17%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (5.17%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 3 (5.17%) Technical Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.45%) SAP FI Consultant
10 2 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
10 2 (3.45%) Unix Administrator
10 2 (3.45%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) .NET
2 4 (6.90%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET
2 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (6.90%) REST
3 3 (5.17%) CSS
3 3 (5.17%) HTML
3 3 (5.17%) SOAP
4 2 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.72%) Kafka
5 1 (1.72%) RAML
5 1 (1.72%) Web Services
5 1 (1.72%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (39.66%) Public Cloud
2 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.17%) Replication
4 2 (3.45%) CMDB
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) FMCG
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) LIMS
5 1 (1.72%) PACS
5 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Linux
2 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (10.34%) Windows
2 6 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.90%) Unix
4 3 (5.17%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) Roadmaps
2 15 (25.86%) DevOps
3 12 (20.69%) Capacity Planning
3 12 (20.69%) Migration
4 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (17.24%) Agile
5 10 (17.24%) TOGAF
6 8 (13.79%) High Availability
6 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (13.79%) Project Management
7 6 (10.34%) Configuration Management
7 6 (10.34%) ITIL
7 6 (10.34%) Open Source
7 6 (10.34%) SDLC
7 6 (10.34%) Software Engineering
7 6 (10.34%) Storage Management
8 5 (8.62%) Identity Management
8 5 (8.62%) Prototyping
8 5 (8.62%) Rapid Prototyping
8 5 (8.62%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) C#
2 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.62%) SQL
4 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.45%) Python
6 1 (1.72%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) RHCSA
4 2 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (18.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 10 (17.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (10.34%) vSphere
4 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.17%) vCloud
4 3 (5.17%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.34%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Kibana
3 4 (6.90%) Terraform
4 2 (3.45%) VxRail
5 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) VMware
2 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.79%) Red Hat
4 7 (12.07%) SAP
5 5 (8.62%) Oracle
6 3 (5.17%) Ericsson
6 3 (5.17%) Nokia
7 2 (3.45%) EMC
7 2 (3.45%) Google
7 2 (3.45%) Mavenir
7 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.72%) Ariba
8 1 (1.72%) Confluent
8 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace