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 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 256 275
Rank change year-on-year -67 +19 -43
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 108 107 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.79% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 2.13% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 68 82
10th Percentile £471 £439 £425
25th Percentile £513 £594 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £656 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.15% -13.08%
75th Percentile £731 £738 £643
90th Percentile £825 £829 £800
England median daily rate £600 £602 £575
% change year-on-year -0.33% +4.70% -8.00%
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 7,241 5,023 5,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.65% 37.04% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,539 3,300 4,092
10th Percentile £353 £335 £315
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £727 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 110 128
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.99 £22.50 £21.17
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.75 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -1.03% -14.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.06 £51.81
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.93 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.01% -17.38% +14.29%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -21 13 £600 -11.11% 5
South London - 5 £500 -
North London - 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 7 (6.48%) Confluence
2 6 (5.56%) Apache
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.85%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.93%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 17 (15.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.63%) SAP SD
3 4 (3.70%) iTrent
3 4 (3.70%) SAP ERP
4 3 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.93%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.59%) Azure
2 35 (32.41%) AWS
3 16 (14.81%) GCP
4 14 (12.96%) PaaS
5 12 (11.11%) IaaS
6 11 (10.19%) SuccessFactors
7 10 (9.26%) GitHub
8 9 (8.33%) Serverless
9 7 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.56%) OCI
11 5 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.63%) OpenShift
11 5 (4.63%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.63%) SaaS
12 4 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.19%) Network Security
2 8 (7.41%) DNS
3 5 (4.63%) Firewall
4 4 (3.70%) NAS
4 4 (3.70%) SAN
4 4 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.78%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.78%) SSH
6 2 (1.85%) DHCP
6 2 (1.85%) Multicast
6 2 (1.85%) VLAN
6 2 (1.85%) VPN
7 1 (0.93%) Internet
7 1 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) Power BI
2 4 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (19.44%) Git
2 9 (8.33%) JIRA
3 7 (6.48%) GitLab
4 6 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.70%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.78%) Postman
7 2 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.93%) Ant
8 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.93%) JUnit
8 1 (0.93%) Maven
8 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.93%) Snyk
General
1 30 (27.78%) Finance
2 15 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.04%) Banking
4 12 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.56%) Local Government
7 5 (4.63%) Billing
8 4 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.85%) Automotive
10 2 (1.85%) Military
10 2 (1.85%) Retail
11 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (23.15%) Architect
2 18 (16.67%) Senior
3 9 (8.33%) Azure Architect
3 9 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (8.33%) Lead
4 8 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Consultant
6 6 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (4.63%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 5 (4.63%) SAP SD Consultant
7 5 (4.63%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (4.63%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 5 (4.63%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.56%) OAuth
1 6 (5.56%) REST
2 5 (4.63%) JSON
2 5 (4.63%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
2 5 (4.63%) Web Services
3 4 (3.70%) Kafka
3 4 (3.70%) PyTorch
3 4 (3.70%) SOAP
3 4 (3.70%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.78%) .NET
4 3 (2.78%) JWT
4 3 (2.78%) NumPy
4 3 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.78%) Pandas
4 3 (2.78%) PySpark
4 3 (2.78%) SAML
4 3 (2.78%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.78%) XML
4 3 (2.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.04%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.78%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.85%) PKI
5 2 (1.85%) Robotics
6 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.59%) Linux
2 8 (7.41%) Unix
3 7 (6.48%) Windows
4 3 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.33%) Migration
2 34 (31.48%) DevOps
3 30 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 26 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (20.37%) Agile
6 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
7 13 (12.04%) Cloud Security
7 13 (12.04%) ERP
7 13 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (10.19%) Change Management
8 11 (10.19%) Microservices
9 10 (9.26%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (8.33%) Configuration Management
10 9 (8.33%) Machine Learning
10 9 (8.33%) Project Delivery
10 9 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (7.41%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.78%) Python
2 13 (12.04%) PowerShell
3 11 (10.19%) Bash
3 11 (10.19%) Java
4 8 (7.41%) SQL
5 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.70%) Ruby
5 4 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.78%) Bicep
7 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) Groovy
8 1 (0.93%) Perl
8 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.15%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (4.63%) CISM
4 5 (4.63%) CISSP
4 5 (4.63%) Degree
4 5 (4.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 5 (4.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 4 (3.70%) CCNP
6 3 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.78%) CCNA
7 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.85%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.85%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.93%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.56%) GDPR
3 3 (2.78%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.85%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.85%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
5 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (7.41%) Docker
2 5 (4.63%) NFS
2 5 (4.63%) Postfix
2 5 (4.63%) Varnish
2 5 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.70%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (22.22%) Terraform
2 14 (12.96%) Kubernetes
3 13 (12.04%) Ansible
4 5 (4.63%) HAProxy
4 5 (4.63%) Packer
5 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.78%) Argo
7 2 (1.85%) Grafana
7 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.85%) systemd
8 1 (0.93%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.93%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.93%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.93%) Nagios
8 1 (0.93%) Nessus
8 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.93%) QRadar
8 1 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (20.37%) SAP
2 19 (17.59%) Oracle
3 13 (12.04%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.26%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.63%) CyberArk
5 5 (4.63%) Google
5 5 (4.63%) VMware
6 3 (2.78%) Cisco
6 3 (2.78%) IBM
6 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.78%) Splunk
7 2 (1.85%) Databricks
7 2 (1.85%) Dell
7 2 (1.85%) F5
7 2 (1.85%) Foundry
7 2 (1.85%) Juniper
7 2 (1.85%) MikroTik
7 2 (1.85%) Palantir
8 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.93%) OpenAI