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 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 221 250
Rank change year-on-year -58 +29 -56
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 105 141 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 1.02% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 2.97% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 82 102
10th Percentile £378 £450 £500
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £725
90th Percentile £734 £805 £825
England median daily rate £534 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.08% +4.35% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £43.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.86% -10.77%
England median hourly rate - £59.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -24.36% +20.93%

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 5,613 4,744 6,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.90% 34.16% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 2,986 4,317
10th Percentile £348 £320 £300
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 60 168
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.12 £16.18
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.66 £19.34
Median hourly rate £27.71 £38.54 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +33.45% -16.09%
75th Percentile £53.13 £61.50 £47.90
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £67.13
England median hourly rate £30.05 £37.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -19.86% +5.63% +57.88%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -27 12 £500 -20.00% 15
North London - 5 £700 -
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 (3.81%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.90%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (12.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.95%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.95%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.95%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 50 (47.62%) Azure
2 38 (36.19%) AWS
3 31 (29.52%) GCP
4 19 (18.10%) GitHub
5 13 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (12.38%) OCI
6 12 (11.43%) IaaS
7 11 (10.48%) PaaS
8 8 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (6.67%) SaaS
10 6 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (4.76%) iPaaS
12 4 (3.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.86%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.86%) Serverless
14 2 (1.90%) Google Ads
14 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
14 2 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.33%) Firewall
1 14 (13.33%) Network Security
2 6 (5.71%) SD-WAN
2 6 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.71%) VPN
2 6 (5.71%) WAN
3 4 (3.81%) Internet
3 4 (3.81%) Multicast
4 2 (1.90%) BGP
4 2 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.90%) DMZ
4 2 (1.90%) DNS
4 2 (1.90%) IOS XR
4 2 (1.90%) IPv6
4 2 (1.90%) Junos
4 2 (1.90%) NAS
4 2 (1.90%) NX-OS
4 2 (1.90%) OSPF
4 2 (1.90%) SAN
4 2 (1.90%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.86%) Data Vault
2 3 (2.86%) Delta Lake
2 3 (2.86%) Power BI
2 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.90%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.95%) MySQL
4 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.95%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (16.19%) GitLab
2 15 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (12.38%) JIRA
4 11 (10.48%) Postman
5 8 (7.62%) Git
6 5 (4.76%) TeamCity
7 4 (3.81%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.95%) JUnit
9 1 (0.95%) Snyk
General
1 30 (28.57%) Finance
2 19 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 17 (16.19%) Banking
3 17 (16.19%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.67%) Local Government
5 6 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Law
7 3 (2.86%) Military
7 3 (2.86%) Police
8 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.95%) Billing
9 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (10.48%) Architect
3 9 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (7.62%) Senior
4 8 (7.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (4.76%) Cloud Specialist
6 5 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Lead
6 5 (4.76%) Network Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Oracle Specialist
6 5 (4.76%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Site Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.05%) REST
2 12 (11.43%) OAuth
3 11 (10.48%) JSON
3 11 (10.48%) SOAP
4 10 (9.52%) JWT
4 10 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (9.52%) XML
4 10 (9.52%) XSLT
5 9 (8.57%) Web Services
6 6 (5.71%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.76%) Kafka
8 3 (2.86%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.86%) Spring
9 2 (1.90%) ADO
9 2 (1.90%) Pandas
9 2 (1.90%) React
9 2 (1.90%) SAML
9 2 (1.90%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (1.90%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.81%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.86%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.86%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.95%) FMCG
8 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.95%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.95%) NHS
8 1 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.57%) Linux
2 8 (7.62%) Windows
3 6 (5.71%) Unix
3 6 (5.71%) VMS
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.76%) DevOps
2 35 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 31 (29.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (25.71%) Migration
5 26 (24.76%) Agile
6 15 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (14.29%) ERP
7 14 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 13 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.43%) Project Delivery
10 11 (10.48%) Analytics
10 11 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (8.57%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.62%) Data Protection
12 8 (7.62%) Microservices
12 8 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (7.62%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.62%) Python
2 12 (11.43%) SQL
3 9 (8.57%) Java
4 2 (1.90%) Bash
4 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.95%) ABAP
5 1 (0.95%) Go
5 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.95%) Ruby
5 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.95%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.81%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.90%) PMP
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.95%) CCNA
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.95%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (2.86%) NCSC
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.95%) NIST
4 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 10 (9.52%) Docker
2 5 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (28.57%) Terraform
2 22 (20.95%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.24%) Ansible
4 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.86%) Istio
6 2 (1.90%) Grafana
6 2 (1.90%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.90%) Puppet
6 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.95%) Argo
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.95%) Nessus
7 1 (0.95%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (20.00%) Oracle
2 13 (12.38%) SAP
3 11 (10.48%) Google
4 9 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.67%) Cisco
5 7 (6.67%) VMware
6 6 (5.71%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.76%) Aruba
7 5 (4.76%) Databricks
8 4 (3.81%) Ariba
8 4 (3.81%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.86%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.86%) Informatica
10 2 (1.90%) Dell
10 2 (1.90%) Ericsson
10 2 (1.90%) F5
10 2 (1.90%) Foundry
10 2 (1.90%) Juniper
10 2 (1.90%) Nokia
10 2 (1.90%) Splunk