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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 283 364
Rank change year-on-year -96 +81 +5
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 33 62 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.49% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 1.37% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 36 19
10th Percentile £474 £511 £503
25th Percentile £519 £572 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 £614 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +2.29% -17.24%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £703
90th Percentile - £763 £738
England median daily rate £574 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -6.71% +11.82% -15.38%

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 6,146 4,515 5,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.38% 35.76% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,982 3,041 4,194
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 75 165
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.20 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.23 £18.93
Median hourly rate £33.12 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +20.69% -17.14%
75th Percentile £60.25 £55.38 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.05 £80.75 £66.05
England median hourly rate £45.00 £34.75 £27.75
% change year-on-year +29.50% +25.23% +23.33%

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 April 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 April 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 6 £625 -3.85% 3
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 (12.12%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.03%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) OpenShift
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.09%) PaaS
4 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) IaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) VSAN
3 2 (6.06%) Calico
4 1 (3.03%) 3GPP
4 1 (3.03%) 4G
4 1 (3.03%) 5G
4 1 (3.03%) BGP
4 1 (3.03%) DMZ
4 1 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (3.03%) HTTP
4 1 (3.03%) LTE
4 1 (3.03%) Network Security
4 1 (3.03%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.03%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) RStudio
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
1 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Banking
2 2 (6.06%) Billing
2 2 (6.06%) Law
2 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.06%) Social Science
3 1 (3.03%) Electronics
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Architect
2 9 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Principal Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Security Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Platform Architect
7 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) SAML
2 4 (12.12%) REST
3 3 (9.09%) OpenID
4 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.06%) OAuth
4 2 (6.06%) RESTful
4 2 (6.06%) SOAP
4 2 (6.06%) Spring
4 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.12%) PKI
3 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.03%) FMCG
5 1 (3.03%) Grid Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (3.03%) IoT
5 1 (3.03%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 15 (45.45%) DevOps
3 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
5 6 (18.18%) Migration
6 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (15.15%) Security Architecture
7 4 (12.12%) Microservices
7 4 (12.12%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (12.12%) Observability
7 4 (12.12%) Security Management
8 3 (9.09%) Agile
8 3 (9.09%) Boundary Protection
8 3 (9.09%) Change Management
8 3 (9.09%) DevSecOps
8 3 (9.09%) Information Security
8 3 (9.09%) ISMS
8 3 (9.09%) Project Management
8 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) Java
2 3 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) CEH
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CISM
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) NCSC
2 2 (6.06%) NIST
2 2 (6.06%) SLA
3 1 (3.03%) COBIT
3 1 (3.03%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.06%) Docker
4 2 (6.06%) vSphere
5 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.03%) GPFS
5 1 (3.03%) Lustre
5 1 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (12.12%) Ansible
4 2 (6.06%) Istio
4 2 (6.06%) Rancher
4 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) Salt
5 1 (3.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) VMware
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) Arista
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) Guidewire
4 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) Wind River
5 1 (3.03%) Ariba
5 1 (3.03%) Dell
5 1 (3.03%) Ericsson
5 1 (3.03%) Huawei
5 1 (3.03%) Nokia
5 1 (3.03%) NVIDIA
5 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.03%) Samsung
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk