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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 296 243
Rank change year-on-year -54 -53 -12
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 104 73 149
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.54% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.34% 1.40% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 43 78
10th Percentile £438 £340 £382
25th Percentile £501 £542 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £620 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +12.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £763 £738 £650
90th Percentile £825 £832 £802
England median daily rate £600 £568 £560
% change year-on-year +5.73% +1.34% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate £57.00 - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +26.67% -19.64% -28.21%

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 7,757 5,199 5,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.34% 38.80% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,936 3,341 3,511
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 123 74
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.02 £17.33
25th Percentile £21.83 £23.23 £23.80
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.50 £33.38
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -20.60% +18.67%
75th Percentile £59.75 £46.88 £56.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.50 £78.65
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +16.93%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -24 10 £688 +19.88% 28
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 4 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.96%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.96%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.81%) SAP SD
3 4 (3.85%) iTrent
3 4 (3.85%) SAP ERP
4 3 (2.88%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 45 (43.27%) Azure
2 40 (38.46%) AWS
3 28 (26.92%) GCP
4 12 (11.54%) SaaS
5 10 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.73%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.77%) PaaS
9 6 (5.77%) Serverless
10 5 (4.81%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (4.81%) GitHub
10 5 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.81%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.85%) dbt
11 4 (3.85%) IaaS
11 4 (3.85%) Route 53
11 4 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.54%) Network Security
2 10 (9.62%) Firewall
3 9 (8.65%) DNS
4 6 (5.77%) VPN
5 5 (4.81%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.85%) DHCP
6 4 (3.85%) VLAN
7 3 (2.88%) HTTPS
7 3 (2.88%) NAS
7 3 (2.88%) SAN
7 3 (2.88%) SSH
7 3 (2.88%) WAN
8 2 (1.92%) Internet
8 2 (1.92%) LAN
8 2 (1.92%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.96%) BGP
9 1 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (3.85%) BigQuery
1 4 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (3.85%) Power Query
1 4 (3.85%) PowerPivot
2 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.92%) Power BI
4 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (19.23%) Git
2 5 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.92%) JIRA
3 2 (1.92%) JUnit
4 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.96%) GitLab
4 1 (0.96%) Maven
4 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (38.46%) Finance
2 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.62%) Billing
4 10 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.73%) Banking
6 4 (3.85%) Automotive
6 4 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Local Government
6 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Law
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Police
9 1 (0.96%) Back Office
9 1 (0.96%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (29.81%) Architect
2 21 (20.19%) Senior
3 12 (11.54%) Consultant
4 9 (8.65%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.65%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (7.69%) Analyst
5 8 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
6 7 (6.73%) Security Architect
7 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Lead
7 6 (5.77%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.81%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (4.81%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 5 (4.81%) SAP SD Consultant
8 5 (4.81%) Senior SAP Consultant
8 5 (4.81%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.85%) Terraform
2 6 (5.77%) Kafka
2 6 (5.77%) Pandas
3 5 (4.81%) .NET
3 5 (4.81%) JSON
3 5 (4.81%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (4.81%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.85%) 802.1X
4 4 (3.85%) Web Services
5 3 (2.88%) OAuth
5 3 (2.88%) OpenID
5 3 (2.88%) pytest
5 3 (2.88%) REST
6 2 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.92%) NumPy
6 2 (1.92%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.92%) SAML
6 2 (1.92%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.92%) SOAP
6 2 (1.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (5.77%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.81%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (4.81%) PKI
5 5 (4.81%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.85%) Robotics
6 4 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.92%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.31%) Linux
2 9 (8.65%) Windows
3 7 (6.73%) Unix
4 5 (4.81%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.96%) Android
6 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (32.69%) DevOps
3 33 (31.73%) CI/CD
4 29 (27.88%) Migration
5 22 (21.15%) Agile
6 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (13.46%) Cloud Security
7 14 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.50%) Change Management
8 13 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 12 (11.54%) Cost Optimisation
9 12 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
9 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (11.54%) Microservices
10 11 (10.58%) Configuration Management
10 11 (10.58%) Cost Management
10 11 (10.58%) Decision-Making
10 11 (10.58%) Project Delivery
11 10 (9.62%) AI
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.00%) Python
2 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
3 12 (11.54%) Bash
4 11 (10.58%) Java
5 6 (5.77%) Go
6 4 (3.85%) Bicep
6 4 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.88%) SQL
8 2 (1.92%) Groovy
8 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.96%) Perl
9 1 (0.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.65%) CISSP
5 8 (7.69%) Degree
6 7 (6.73%) CCNP
7 6 (5.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.77%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.81%) CISM
9 4 (3.85%) JNCIP
9 4 (3.85%) JNCIS
10 3 (2.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.88%) CCNA
10 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.92%) PMP
12 1 (0.96%) CCIE
12 1 (0.96%) CCSP
12 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.85%) ISO 15022
2 4 (3.85%) ISO 20022
2 4 (3.85%) NIST
3 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.88%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (2.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) GRC
4 1 (0.96%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.96%) ISO 31000
4 1 (0.96%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (7.69%) Docker
1 8 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.96%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.96%) NFS
5 1 (0.96%) Postfix
5 1 (0.96%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.96%) Varnish
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (18.27%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.38%) Ansible
3 6 (5.77%) Packer
4 5 (4.81%) Grafana
5 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.85%) systemd
6 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.92%) Puppet
6 2 (1.92%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.96%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.96%) Argo
7 1 (0.96%) CASB
7 1 (0.96%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.96%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.96%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.96%) Nagios
7 1 (0.96%) QRadar
7 1 (0.96%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.31%) SAP
3 17 (16.35%) Google
4 15 (14.42%) Oracle
5 9 (8.65%) VMware
6 8 (7.69%) CyberArk
7 7 (6.73%) Cisco
8 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.81%) Splunk
9 4 (3.85%) IBM
9 4 (3.85%) Juniper
9 4 (3.85%) MikroTik
10 3 (2.88%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (2.88%) Databricks
11 2 (1.92%) Commvault
11 2 (1.92%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.92%) EMC
11 2 (1.92%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.96%) Qualys
12 1 (0.96%) Tripwire