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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 220 257
Rank change year-on-year -66 +37 -57
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 98 143 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.02% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 3.00% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 82 95
10th Percentile £367 £450 £500
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £744
90th Percentile £726 £805 £825
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -5.35%
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 5,561 4,759 5,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.07% 34.04% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,620 3,001 4,247
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% -5.31%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £710
90th Percentile £800 £850 £813
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 62 142
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.90 £16.30
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.48 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.89 £37.54 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% +29.99% +1.32%
75th Percentile £48.81 £63.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £82.96 £64.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £35.65
% change year-on-year -21.20% +6.79% +58.55%

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 22 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 22 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 -20 12 £500 -19.19% 14
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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (12.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.10%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.02%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.02%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.02%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.92%) Azure
2 35 (35.71%) AWS
3 27 (27.55%) GCP
4 17 (17.35%) GitHub
5 13 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (12.24%) OCI
7 11 (11.22%) IaaS
8 9 (9.18%) PaaS
9 7 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.12%) SaaS
11 5 (5.10%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (4.08%) iPaaS
12 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
13 3 (3.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (3.06%) Serverless
14 2 (2.04%) Azure AKS
14 2 (2.04%) Azure Functions
14 2 (2.04%) dbt
14 2 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.27%) Firewall
2 12 (12.24%) Network Security
3 6 (6.12%) SD-WAN
3 6 (6.12%) VPN
3 6 (6.12%) WAN
4 5 (5.10%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.08%) Internet
6 3 (3.06%) Multicast
7 2 (2.04%) BGP
7 2 (2.04%) Broadband
7 2 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (2.04%) DMZ
7 2 (2.04%) DNS
7 2 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.04%) IOS XR
7 2 (2.04%) IPv6
7 2 (2.04%) Junos
7 2 (2.04%) NX-OS
7 2 (2.04%) OSPF
7 2 (2.04%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) Power BI
1 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.06%) Data Vault
2 3 (3.06%) Delta Lake
2 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.04%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.02%) MySQL
4 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.02%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (15.31%) GitLab
2 14 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.27%) JIRA
4 10 (10.20%) Postman
5 8 (8.16%) Git
6 4 (4.08%) TeamCity
7 3 (3.06%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.04%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.02%) JUnit
General
1 29 (29.59%) Finance
2 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.33%) Banking
3 16 (16.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Local Government
5 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.06%) General Ledger
6 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.06%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.06%) Law
6 3 (3.06%) Police
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Military
7 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.02%) Billing
8 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (9.18%) Architect
3 8 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (7.14%) Senior
5 6 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Analyst
6 5 (5.10%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (5.10%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Lead
6 5 (5.10%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Technologist
7 4 (4.08%) Cloud Specialist
7 4 (4.08%) Consultant
7 4 (4.08%) Integration Specialist
7 4 (4.08%) Java Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (4.08%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.41%) REST
2 11 (11.22%) OAuth
3 10 (10.20%) JSON
3 10 (10.20%) SOAP
4 9 (9.18%) JWT
4 9 (9.18%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (9.18%) XML
4 9 (9.18%) XSLT
5 8 (8.16%) Web Services
6 6 (6.12%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.10%) Kafka
8 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.06%) Spring
9 2 (2.04%) ADO
9 2 (2.04%) NumPy
9 2 (2.04%) React
9 2 (2.04%) SAML
9 2 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (2.04%) scikit-learn
9 2 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.16%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.10%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.08%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.06%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.06%) Reinsurance
7 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.02%) FMCG
8 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Linux
1 8 (8.16%) Windows
2 6 (6.12%) Unix
2 6 (6.12%) VMS
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.90%) DevOps
2 31 (31.63%) CI/CD
3 27 (27.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (25.51%) Agile
4 25 (25.51%) Migration
5 15 (15.31%) Containerisation
6 14 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (14.29%) ERP
7 13 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (12.24%) Project Delivery
9 11 (11.22%) Analytics
9 11 (11.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (9.18%) SDLC
11 9 (9.18%) Test Automation
12 8 (8.16%) Data Analysis
12 8 (8.16%) Microservices
12 8 (8.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.55%) Python
2 11 (11.22%) SQL
3 10 (10.20%) Java
4 2 (2.04%) Go
4 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.02%) ABAP
5 1 (1.02%) Bash
5 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.08%) Degree
4 3 (3.06%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.04%) PMP
6 1 (1.02%) CCNA
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.02%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (3.06%) NCSC
3 2 (2.04%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) SLA
4 1 (1.02%) ISO 15022
4 1 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 11 (11.22%) Docker
2 5 (5.10%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (27.55%) Terraform
2 21 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.04%) Grafana
5 2 (2.04%) Istio
5 2 (2.04%) Kubeflow
5 2 (2.04%) Puppet
5 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.02%) Packer
6 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Oracle
2 12 (12.24%) SAP
3 10 (10.20%) Google
4 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
5 7 (7.14%) Cisco
5 7 (7.14%) VMware
6 6 (6.12%) Palo Alto
7 5 (5.10%) Aruba
7 5 (5.10%) Databricks
8 4 (4.08%) Ariba
9 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.06%) Informatica
9 3 (3.06%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.04%) Arista
10 2 (2.04%) Ericsson
10 2 (2.04%) Foundry
10 2 (2.04%) Juniper
10 2 (2.04%) Nokia
10 2 (2.04%) Palantir
11 1 (1.02%) Extreme Networks