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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 246 275
Rank change year-on-year -67 +29 -53
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 112 110 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.88% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 2.40% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 71 80
10th Percentile £451 £463 £448
25th Percentile £500 £575 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £567
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +16.84% -12.77%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £702
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £600 £614 £598
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.76% -7.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £52.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £54.00
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £57.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year +26.09% +24.32% -40.71%

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 6,856 4,574 5,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.02% 36.57% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 3,041 4,110
10th Percentile £358 £331 £315
25th Percentile £450 £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 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 92 143
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.44
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.21 £18.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.95 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +18.31% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.56 £49.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.12 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
% change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.31%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -22 13 £550 -18.52% 2
South London - 5 £500 -
North London - 2 - -
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 7 (6.25%) Confluence
2 5 (4.46%) Apache
3 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (13.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.46%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (3.57%) iTrent
3 4 (3.57%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.79%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.89%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 51 (45.54%) Azure
2 30 (26.79%) AWS
3 22 (19.64%) GCP
4 15 (13.39%) PaaS
5 14 (12.50%) GitHub
6 12 (10.71%) IaaS
7 9 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.04%) Serverless
8 8 (7.14%) OCI
8 8 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.57%) SaaS
11 3 (2.68%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.79%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) Network Security
2 6 (5.36%) DNS
2 6 (5.36%) Firewall
3 3 (2.68%) NAS
3 3 (2.68%) SAN
4 2 (1.79%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.79%) Multicast
4 2 (1.79%) SSH
4 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.89%) Internet
5 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.68%) Data Vault
2 3 (2.68%) Delta Lake
2 3 (2.68%) Power BI
3 2 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (13.39%) Git
2 13 (11.61%) JIRA
3 9 (8.04%) GitLab
3 9 (8.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.46%) Postman
4 5 (4.46%) SoapUI
5 4 (3.57%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.89%) Ant
6 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.89%) JUnit
6 1 (0.89%) Maven
6 1 (0.89%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.89%) Snyk
General
1 27 (24.11%) Finance
2 21 (18.75%) Banking
3 17 (15.18%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.36%) Local Government
6 5 (4.46%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.68%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Billing
8 2 (1.79%) Military
8 2 (1.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (22.32%) Architect
2 13 (11.61%) Senior
3 10 (8.93%) Azure Architect
3 10 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.04%) Lead
5 8 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Java Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.46%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.46%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Analyst
9 4 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.57%) SAP Analyst
9 4 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.93%) REST
2 8 (7.14%) OAuth
3 7 (6.25%) JSON
3 7 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.36%) Kafka
4 6 (5.36%) SOAP
4 6 (5.36%) Web Services
5 5 (4.46%) JWT
5 5 (4.46%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (4.46%) XML
5 5 (4.46%) XSLT
6 4 (3.57%) PyTorch
6 4 (3.57%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.68%) .NET
7 3 (2.68%) NumPy
7 3 (2.68%) Pandas
7 3 (2.68%) PySpark
7 3 (2.68%) SAML
7 3 (2.68%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.79%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.36%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.68%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.68%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.89%) CUDA
7 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.89%) Equities
7 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.89%) NHS
7 1 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.07%) Linux
2 11 (9.82%) Unix
3 7 (6.25%) Windows
4 4 (3.57%) VMS
5 1 (0.89%) Android
5 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.93%) Migration
2 37 (33.04%) DevOps
3 32 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 27 (24.11%) Agile
5 26 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 15 (13.39%) ERP
8 13 (11.61%) Cloud Security
9 12 (10.71%) Analytics
9 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (9.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (8.93%) Change Management
11 10 (8.93%) Microservices
11 10 (8.93%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (8.04%) Project Delivery
12 9 (8.04%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (25.89%) Python
2 13 (11.61%) Java
3 12 (10.71%) SQL
4 9 (8.04%) PowerShell
5 8 (7.14%) Bash
6 5 (4.46%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.57%) Ruby
8 3 (2.68%) Bicep
9 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.89%) Perl
10 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.25%) Degree
5 5 (4.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (4.46%) CISM
5 5 (4.46%) CISSP
5 5 (4.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 5 (4.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.68%) CCNA
6 3 (2.68%) PMP
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.89%) CCNP
8 1 (0.89%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.89%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.36%) GDPR
3 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.68%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.79%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.79%) NIST
4 2 (1.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.89%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (9.82%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) NFS
2 5 (4.46%) Postfix
2 5 (4.46%) Varnish
3 4 (3.57%) Sendmail
3 4 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (23.21%) Terraform
2 19 (16.96%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.61%) Ansible
4 5 (4.46%) HAProxy
5 3 (2.68%) Argo
5 3 (2.68%) Packer
5 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.89%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.89%) Grafana
7 1 (0.89%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.89%) Istio
7 1 (0.89%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.89%) Nagios
7 1 (0.89%) Nessus
7 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.89%) Puppet
7 1 (0.89%) QRadar
7 1 (0.89%) SCCM
7 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) Oracle
2 20 (17.86%) SAP
3 14 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.93%) Google
5 9 (8.04%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.46%) Databricks
7 4 (3.57%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.57%) VMware
8 3 (2.68%) IBM
8 3 (2.68%) Informatica
8 3 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.68%) Splunk
9 2 (1.79%) Ariba
9 2 (1.79%) Dell
9 2 (1.79%) F5
9 2 (1.79%) Foundry
9 2 (1.79%) Palantir
10 1 (0.89%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.89%) Palo Alto