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 25 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 237 248
Rank change year-on-year -63 +11 -41
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 80 155 183
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 0.99% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 2.91% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 90 127
10th Percentile £395 £388 £410
25th Percentile £525 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £712
90th Percentile £775 £806 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.38% -21.36%
England median hourly rate - £56.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -28.21% +20.46%

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 5,548 5,320 6,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.35% 33.87% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,526 3,404 4,786
10th Percentile £335 £325 £325
25th Percentile £434 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £725
90th Percentile £813 £850 £825
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 62 102
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.28 £18.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.72 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +17.50% -1.64%
75th Percentile £43.00 £56.00 £49.68
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £65.09
England median hourly rate £28.13 £44.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.08% -1.12% +27.14%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 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 -25 7 £574 -4.42% 4
North London - 3 £700 - 1
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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) nginx
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (11.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.25%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.25%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.25%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.25%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 49 (61.25%) AWS
2 42 (52.50%) Azure
3 25 (31.25%) GCP
3 25 (31.25%) GitHub
4 16 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.75%) SaaS
6 5 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (6.25%) IaaS
6 5 (6.25%) OCI
7 4 (5.00%) PaaS
8 3 (3.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.75%) iPaaS
9 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.50%) dbt
9 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) Firewall
2 11 (13.75%) WAN
3 10 (12.50%) VPN
4 7 (8.75%) Network Security
5 6 (7.50%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.00%) DNS
6 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.00%) VLAN
7 3 (3.75%) Internet
7 3 (3.75%) LAN
8 2 (2.50%) BGP
8 2 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (2.50%) DHCP
8 2 (2.50%) DMZ
8 2 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (2.50%) IPsec
8 2 (2.50%) Junos
8 2 (2.50%) OSPF
8 2 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
1 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.50%) MySQL
2 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.25%) Big Data
3 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.25%) Pentaho
3 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) GitLab
2 10 (12.50%) Git
2 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.00%) JIRA
4 4 (5.00%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.00%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.75%) Postman
6 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.25%) JUnit
7 1 (1.25%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.25%) Subversion
General
1 21 (26.25%) Finance
2 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (11.25%) Banking
6 7 (8.75%) Local Government
6 7 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Law
8 3 (3.75%) Police
8 3 (3.75%) Publishing
9 2 (2.50%) Billing
9 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Back Office
10 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) French Language
10 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.25%) Military
10 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Architect
2 12 (15.00%) Senior
3 8 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Technical Architect
5 6 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Network Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) Azure Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Technologist
7 4 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) Lead
7 4 (5.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) REST
2 5 (6.25%) GraphQL
3 3 (3.75%) JSON
3 3 (3.75%) JWT
3 3 (3.75%) Kafka
3 3 (3.75%) OAuth
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.75%) SOAP
3 3 (3.75%) Web Services
3 3 (3.75%) XML
3 3 (3.75%) XSLT
4 2 (2.50%) NumPy
4 2 (2.50%) Pandas
4 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.50%) React
4 2 (2.50%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (2.50%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.50%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.25%) SAPUI5
5 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.75%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Replication
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.25%) CMDB
7 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) VMS
4 1 (1.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 31 (38.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (37.50%) DevOps
4 24 (30.00%) Agile
5 16 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 14 (17.50%) Migration
7 12 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (13.75%) SDLC
9 10 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
11 8 (10.00%) Data Protection
11 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 8 (10.00%) Scrum
12 7 (8.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (8.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) Python
2 17 (21.25%) Java
3 10 (12.50%) Go
4 4 (5.00%) Kotlin
4 4 (5.00%) SQL
4 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.25%) ABAP
5 1 (1.25%) CodeQL
5 1 (1.25%) DAML
5 1 (1.25%) Groovy
5 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.25%) CCDP
6 1 (1.25%) CCNP
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (3.75%) NCSC
2 3 (3.75%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Docker
2 6 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.50%) Firmware
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.50%) vSphere
6 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (37.50%) Terraform
2 22 (27.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.25%) Ansible
4 6 (7.50%) Grafana
4 6 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.50%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.50%) Istio
5 2 (2.50%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Oracle
2 10 (12.50%) VMware
3 9 (11.25%) Cisco
3 9 (11.25%) SAP
4 6 (7.50%) Palo Alto
5 5 (6.25%) Aruba
5 5 (6.25%) Google
6 4 (5.00%) Juniper
7 3 (3.75%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.50%) F5
8 2 (2.50%) NetApp
9 1 (1.25%) Ariba
9 1 (1.25%) Brocade
9 1 (1.25%) Databricks
9 1 (1.25%) Ericsson
9 1 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.25%) IBM
9 1 (1.25%) Nokia
9 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow