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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 223 252
Rank change year-on-year -76 +29 -45
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 87 150 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 1.05% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 3.07% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 85 95
10th Percentile £425 £421 £435
25th Percentile £505 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £688
90th Percentile £725 £803 £825
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
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 - £58.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -25.64% +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 5,499 4,886 6,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.21% 34.29% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,568 3,102 4,268
10th Percentile £350 £325 £314
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% -1.00%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 62 111
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.28 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.62 £23.98 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £34.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +16.92% -4.13%
75th Percentile £47.00 £60.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.85 £80.75 £64.53
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £41.37
% change year-on-year -21.62% -10.55% +65.46%

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 7 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 7 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 -34 7 £600 -2.04% 7
North London - 4 £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 (4.60%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (13.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.15%) Cloudability
3 1 (1.15%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.15%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.15%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 43 (49.43%) Azure
2 35 (40.23%) AWS
3 25 (28.74%) GCP
4 17 (19.54%) GitHub
5 10 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (11.49%) IaaS
5 10 (11.49%) OCI
6 9 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (9.20%) PaaS
8 6 (6.90%) SaaS
9 5 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (4.60%) iPaaS
11 3 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
12 2 (2.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.30%) dbt
12 2 (2.30%) Google Ads
12 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.09%) Firewall
2 12 (13.79%) Network Security
3 7 (8.05%) VPN
3 7 (8.05%) WAN
4 6 (6.90%) SD-WAN
5 4 (4.60%) Internet
5 4 (4.60%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.45%) DNS
7 2 (2.30%) BGP
7 2 (2.30%) Broadband
7 2 (2.30%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (2.30%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.30%) DMZ
7 2 (2.30%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.30%) IOS XR
7 2 (2.30%) IPv6
7 2 (2.30%) Junos
7 2 (2.30%) NX-OS
7 2 (2.30%) OSPF
7 2 (2.30%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
1 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.15%) MySQL
2 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.15%) Power BI
2 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (14.94%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.79%) GitLab
3 8 (9.20%) Git
3 8 (9.20%) JIRA
3 8 (9.20%) Postman
4 4 (4.60%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.15%) JUnit
General
1 26 (29.89%) Finance
2 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.64%) Banking
5 9 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.05%) Local Government
7 6 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.45%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Law
8 3 (3.45%) Police
9 2 (2.30%) Billing
9 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.15%) Military
10 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (9.20%) Architect
3 8 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (9.20%) Senior
4 5 (5.75%) Analyst
4 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (5.75%) Consultant
4 5 (5.75%) Java Engineer
4 5 (5.75%) Lead
4 5 (5.75%) Network Engineer
4 5 (5.75%) Technologist
5 4 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (4.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (4.60%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (4.60%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.45%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.69%) REST
2 8 (9.20%) JSON
2 8 (9.20%) OAuth
2 8 (9.20%) SOAP
3 7 (8.05%) JWT
3 7 (8.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (8.05%) Web Services
3 7 (8.05%) XML
3 7 (8.05%) XSLT
4 5 (5.75%) GraphQL
4 5 (5.75%) Kafka
4 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.30%) ADO
5 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.30%) NumPy
5 2 (2.30%) Pandas
5 2 (2.30%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (2.30%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.30%) Spring
5 2 (2.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.60%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Replication
5 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) CMDB
6 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.15%) FMCG
6 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Linux
1 6 (6.90%) VMS
1 6 (6.90%) Windows
2 5 (5.75%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (47.13%) DevOps
2 28 (32.18%) CI/CD
2 28 (32.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (27.59%) Migration
4 23 (26.44%) Agile
5 17 (19.54%) Containerisation
6 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (13.79%) ERP
7 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.79%) Project Delivery
7 12 (13.79%) SDLC
7 12 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (8.05%) Data Protection
11 7 (8.05%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.14%) Python
2 12 (13.79%) Java
3 5 (5.75%) Go
3 5 (5.75%) SQL
4 1 (1.15%) ABAP
4 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.30%) PMP
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.15%) CCNA
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 3 (3.45%) NCSC
2 2 (2.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) ISO 15022
3 1 (1.15%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.15%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (13.79%) Docker
2 5 (5.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (29.89%) Terraform
2 22 (25.29%) Kubernetes
3 13 (14.94%) Ansible
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
4 2 (2.30%) Istio
4 2 (2.30%) Kubeflow
4 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.15%) Packer
5 1 (1.15%) Puppet
5 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (17.24%) Oracle
2 13 (14.94%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.79%) SAP
4 8 (9.20%) Google
4 8 (9.20%) VMware
5 7 (8.05%) Cisco
6 5 (5.75%) Aruba
6 5 (5.75%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.60%) Ariba
8 3 (3.45%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.30%) Arista
9 2 (2.30%) Ericsson
9 2 (2.30%) IBM
9 2 (2.30%) Juniper
9 2 (2.30%) Nokia
10 1 (1.15%) Brocade
10 1 (1.15%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.15%) NetApp
10 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.15%) Splunk