Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in London

Public Cloud
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 227 269
Rank change year-on-year -85 +42 -61
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 111 130 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 1.02% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 2.85% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 91 83
10th Percentile £405 £480 £490
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £732 £775
90th Percentile £760 £825 £825
England median daily rate £575 £615 £610
% change year-on-year -6.50% +0.82% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £43.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.60% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £56.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +28.32% +46.75% -49.01%

All Generic Skills
London

Public 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 6,284 4,568 5,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.87% 35.86% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,027 3,094 4,185
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 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -6.65% -0.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 74 163
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.99 £22.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +33.65% -25.71%
75th Percentile £60.50 £50.50 £46.68
90th Percentile £78.44 £80.05 £66.40
England median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +33.71% +19.30% +26.67%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Public Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Public Cloud

Public 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 Public Cloud within the London region over the 6 months to 24 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 13 £550 -18.52% 5
North London - 5 - -
South London - 5 £500 -
Public Cloud
England

Public 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 5 (4.50%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Apache
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.80%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (10.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (7.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.90%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 53 (47.75%) Azure
2 32 (28.83%) AWS
3 27 (24.32%) GCP
4 18 (16.22%) PaaS
5 16 (14.41%) IaaS
6 15 (13.51%) OCI
7 13 (11.71%) GitHub
8 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (5.41%) Serverless
9 6 (5.41%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (2.70%) dbt
10 3 (2.70%) iPaaS
10 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.70%) SaaS
10 3 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.81%) Network Security
2 9 (8.11%) Firewall
3 4 (3.60%) DNS
3 4 (3.60%) Internet
3 4 (3.60%) Multicast
3 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.80%) BGP
4 2 (1.80%) Broadband
4 2 (1.80%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.80%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.80%) DMZ
4 2 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (1.80%) IOS XR
4 2 (1.80%) IPv6
4 2 (1.80%) Junos
4 2 (1.80%) NAS
4 2 (1.80%) NX-OS
4 2 (1.80%) OSPF
4 2 (1.80%) SAN
4 2 (1.80%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (2.70%) BigQuery
1 3 (2.70%) Data Vault
1 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.70%) Delta Lake
1 3 (2.70%) Power BI
1 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
1 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.90%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) GitLab
1 12 (10.81%) JIRA
2 11 (9.91%) Git
2 11 (9.91%) Postman
3 10 (9.01%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.31%) SoapUI
5 4 (3.60%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.90%) Ant
7 1 (0.90%) JUnit
7 1 (0.90%) Maven
7 1 (0.90%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.90%) Snyk
General
1 26 (23.42%) Finance
2 21 (18.92%) Banking
3 20 (18.02%) Social Skills
4 16 (14.41%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.41%) Local Government
6 5 (4.50%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.70%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.70%) Military
8 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (14.41%) Architect
2 11 (9.91%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (9.91%) Lead
3 9 (8.11%) Azure Architect
4 8 (7.21%) Senior
5 7 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Oracle Specialist
5 7 (6.31%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Cloud Specialist
6 6 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Integration Specialist
6 6 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (4.50%) Java Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Technologist
8 4 (3.60%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.02%) REST
2 12 (10.81%) JSON
2 12 (10.81%) OAuth
2 12 (10.81%) SOAP
3 10 (9.01%) JWT
3 10 (9.01%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (9.01%) Web Services
3 10 (9.01%) XML
3 10 (9.01%) XSLT
4 7 (6.31%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.50%) Kafka
5 5 (4.50%) PyTorch
5 5 (4.50%) TensorFlow
6 4 (3.60%) NumPy
6 4 (3.60%) Pandas
6 4 (3.60%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.70%) PySpark
8 2 (1.80%) ADO
8 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.31%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.70%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) CUDA
7 1 (0.90%) Equities
7 1 (0.90%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.90%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.32%) Linux
2 10 (9.01%) Unix
3 6 (5.41%) Windows
4 4 (3.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.44%) DevOps
2 35 (31.53%) Migration
3 32 (28.83%) CI/CD
4 30 (27.03%) Agile
5 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (15.32%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.41%) ERP
8 14 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (11.71%) Analytics
9 13 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (9.91%) Microservices
11 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (9.01%) Cloud Security
12 10 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (7.21%) Load Balancing
14 8 (7.21%) Machine Learning
14 8 (7.21%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.83%) Python
2 14 (12.61%) SQL
3 11 (9.91%) Java
4 5 (4.50%) Bash
4 5 (4.50%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.70%) Ruby
6 2 (1.80%) Bicep
6 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.50%) CISM
4 5 (4.50%) CISSP
4 5 (4.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 5 (4.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.70%) Degree
7 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.80%) PMP
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.90%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) GDPR
2 6 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.70%) SLA
4 2 (1.80%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.80%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.80%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.90%) NIST
5 1 (0.90%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (10.81%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.60%) NFS
3 4 (3.60%) Postfix
3 4 (3.60%) Varnish
4 3 (2.70%) Sendmail
4 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) Kubernetes
2 22 (19.82%) Terraform
3 12 (10.81%) Ansible
4 4 (3.60%) HAProxy
5 3 (2.70%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.80%) Argo
6 2 (1.80%) Istio
6 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.80%) Puppet
6 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.90%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.90%) Nessus
7 1 (0.90%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (21.62%) Oracle
2 13 (11.71%) Google
3 12 (10.81%) SAP
4 11 (9.91%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.41%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.41%) VMware
6 5 (4.50%) Databricks
6 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.60%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.70%) Ariba
8 3 (2.70%) IBM
8 3 (2.70%) Informatica
8 3 (2.70%) Splunk
9 2 (1.80%) Cisco
9 2 (1.80%) Dell
9 2 (1.80%) Ericsson
9 2 (1.80%) F5
9 2 (1.80%) Foundry
9 2 (1.80%) Juniper
9 2 (1.80%) Palantir