Public Cloud Contracts 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 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 226 269 206
Rank change year-on-year +43 -63 -41
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 127 123 339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.01% 0.69% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.81% 2.08% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 83 237
10th Percentile £480 £450 £458
25th Percentile £525 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £732 £744 £800
90th Percentile £830 £825 £849
England median daily rate £618 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +2.92% -4.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £62.33
25th Percentile - - £62.44
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £77.00
England median hourly rate £56.50 £38.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year +46.75% -49.01% +13.53%

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 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%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in London

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 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 +10 24 £675 +4.25% 6
Public Cloud
England

Public 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 4 (3.15%) Apache
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.79%) DataSynapse
2 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (13.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.94%) SAP CO
2 5 (3.94%) SAP FI
2 5 (3.94%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.57%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (1.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.57%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.79%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (45.67%) Azure
2 54 (42.52%) AWS
3 17 (13.39%) GCP
4 16 (12.60%) PaaS
5 14 (11.02%) GitHub
5 14 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (9.45%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.66%) OpenShift
7 11 (8.66%) SaaS
8 10 (7.87%) IaaS
8 10 (7.87%) Serverless
9 8 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (4.72%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 6 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.72%) CloudFront
11 6 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.72%) Route 53
12 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.66%) DNS
2 5 (3.94%) Firewall
2 5 (3.94%) Network Security
3 3 (2.36%) VPN
4 2 (1.57%) DHCP
4 2 (1.57%) HTTP
4 2 (1.57%) SMTP
4 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.79%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.79%) LAN
5 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.30%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.51%) Big Data
3 7 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (4.72%) DocumentDB
4 6 (4.72%) Redis
5 5 (3.94%) Oracle Database
5 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.57%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.57%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.57%) MySQL
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.79%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.79%) KDB
8 1 (0.79%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 21 (16.54%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.66%) Git
3 10 (7.87%) SonarQube
4 7 (5.51%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.51%) JIRA
5 4 (3.15%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.15%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.15%) GitLab
6 3 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.57%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.79%) Gatling
8 1 (0.79%) JMeter
8 1 (0.79%) Maven
8 1 (0.79%) MLflow
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.79%) TestDirector
General
1 41 (32.28%) Finance
2 38 (29.92%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.60%) Banking
4 10 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.51%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.72%) Retail Banking
7 4 (3.15%) General Ledger
7 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.15%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.15%) Legal
7 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.15%) Retail
8 3 (2.36%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Billing
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Front Office
9 1 (0.79%) Military
9 1 (0.79%) Publishing
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (38.58%) Architect
2 26 (20.47%) Senior
3 19 (14.96%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (11.02%) Consultant
5 13 (10.24%) Infrastructure Architect
5 13 (10.24%) Senior Architect
6 12 (9.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.66%) Lead
8 10 (7.87%) Azure Architect
8 10 (7.87%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (6.30%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (6.30%) Technical Architect
10 7 (5.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Developer
10 7 (5.51%) Gen AI Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Security Architect
10 7 (5.51%) Technical Leader
11 6 (4.72%) C# Developer
11 6 (4.72%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.72%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.87%) RESTful
2 9 (7.09%) REST
3 7 (5.51%) GraphQL
4 6 (4.72%) .NET
5 5 (3.94%) LangChain
5 5 (3.94%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (3.15%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (3.15%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.15%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (3.15%) CSS
6 4 (3.15%) HTML
6 4 (3.15%) Kafka
6 4 (3.15%) Material-UI
6 4 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.15%) React
6 4 (3.15%) Spring
7 2 (1.57%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.57%) Next.js
7 2 (1.57%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.11%) Private Cloud
2 11 (8.66%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (7.87%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.51%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.72%) Derivative
6 4 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.57%) Replication
9 1 (0.79%) Equities
9 1 (0.79%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.79%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.24%) Linux
2 10 (7.87%) Windows
3 6 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.15%) Unix
5 3 (2.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.79%) Debian
6 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.50%) Agile
2 37 (29.13%) DevOps
3 32 (25.20%) CI/CD
4 31 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (19.69%) Roadmaps
6 19 (14.96%) Migration
6 19 (14.96%) Software Engineering
7 16 (12.60%) Infrastructure Management
7 16 (12.60%) SDLC
7 16 (12.60%) Test Automation
8 15 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (11.02%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (10.24%) Containerisation
10 13 (10.24%) TDD
11 12 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (8.66%) Analytics
12 11 (8.66%) Configuration Management
12 11 (8.66%) Microservices
12 11 (8.66%) Project Management
13 10 (7.87%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 38 (29.92%) Python
2 27 (21.26%) Java
3 12 (9.45%) C#
3 12 (9.45%) SQL
4 11 (8.66%) Go
5 8 (6.30%) Clojure
5 8 (6.30%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.30%) Rust
6 7 (5.51%) Elixir
6 7 (5.51%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.51%) Scala
7 4 (3.15%) Bash
7 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.36%) ABAP
8 3 (2.36%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.57%) Haskell
9 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.79%) Groovy
10 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.60%) Degree
3 14 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.15%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.57%) OCP
7 2 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.79%) CCNA
8 1 (0.79%) CCSP
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.79%) CISM
8 1 (0.79%) CISSP
8 1 (0.79%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.79%) GCIA
8 1 (0.79%) GCIH
8 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.51%) QA
2 6 (4.72%) NIST
3 4 (3.15%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.57%) GRC
4 2 (1.57%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.57%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.79%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (11.81%) Docker
2 10 (7.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.51%) vSphere
5 5 (3.94%) Active Directory
6 4 (3.15%) Lustre
7 3 (2.36%) vCloud
7 3 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.36%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (1.57%) IAG
8 2 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.79%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 38 (29.92%) Kubernetes
2 29 (22.83%) Terraform
3 18 (14.17%) Ansible
4 9 (7.09%) Grafana
5 5 (3.94%) Kibana
5 5 (3.94%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.15%) Karpenter
6 4 (3.15%) Podman
7 3 (2.36%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.57%) VxRail
9 1 (0.79%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.79%) Puppet
9 1 (0.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.96%) SAP
3 12 (9.45%) Oracle
4 11 (8.66%) VMware
5 9 (7.09%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.30%) Google
7 4 (3.15%) Splunk
8 3 (2.36%) AlgoSec
8 3 (2.36%) Cisco
8 3 (2.36%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.36%) Tufin
9 2 (1.57%) Concur
9 2 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.57%) Databricks
9 2 (1.57%) EMC
9 2 (1.57%) IBM
9 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.57%) Sun
10 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto