Public Cloud Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 283 229
Rank change year-on-year +34 -54 -42
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 111 124 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 0.70% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 2.11% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 83 204
10th Percentile £447 £430 £447
25th Percentile £575 £460 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £565 £650
Median % change year-on-year +17.26% -13.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £738 £651 £775
90th Percentile £825 £825 £849
England median daily rate £613 £575 £638
% change year-on-year +6.52% -9.80% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £65.35
25th Percentile - £52.00 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £46.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +24.32% -40.71% -4.00%

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 4,829 5,879 9,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.85% 33.36% 35.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,183 4,127 6,536
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 142 97
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.34 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.40 £27.42 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% -21.66% -13.58%
75th Percentile £48.44 £49.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.39 £71.25 £86.32
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in London.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in London

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 3 July 2025. 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 +5 18 £675 +16.63% 52
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.50%) Apache
2 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.90%) DataSynapse
3 1 (0.90%) SAS
3 1 (0.90%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.80%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (1.80%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.80%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.80%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.90%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (54.05%) AWS
2 51 (45.95%) Azure
3 27 (24.32%) GCP
3 27 (24.32%) GitHub
4 18 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (9.91%) OpenShift
6 10 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (9.01%) Serverless
7 9 (8.11%) Amazon S3
7 9 (8.11%) PaaS
7 9 (8.11%) SaaS
8 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.70%) CloudFront
11 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.01%) DNS
2 7 (6.31%) Firewall
3 6 (5.41%) VPN
3 6 (5.41%) WAN
4 5 (4.50%) LAN
5 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.70%) VLAN
7 2 (1.80%) BGP
7 2 (1.80%) DHCP
7 2 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.80%) HTTP
7 2 (1.80%) IPsec
7 2 (1.80%) Multicast
7 2 (1.80%) OSPF
7 2 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.80%) SMTP
7 2 (1.80%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.90%) Network Security
8 1 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.91%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (7.21%) Big Data
4 5 (4.50%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.70%) DocumentDB
5 3 (2.70%) MySQL
5 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.70%) Power BI
5 3 (2.70%) Redis
5 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.80%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.90%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.90%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 21 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.41%) Git
3 10 (9.01%) SonarQube
4 9 (8.11%) GitLab
5 8 (7.21%) Bitbucket
5 8 (7.21%) CircleCI
6 7 (6.31%) Artifactory
6 7 (6.31%) JIRA
7 3 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.70%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.90%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.90%) Subversion
8 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.03%) Finance
3 13 (11.71%) Banking
4 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Legal
7 4 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Law
8 3 (2.70%) Military
8 3 (2.70%) Publishing
8 3 (2.70%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.80%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) French Language
10 1 (0.90%) Front Office
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (43.24%) Architect
2 29 (26.13%) Senior
3 17 (15.32%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (14.41%) Senior Architect
5 13 (11.71%) Technical Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Cloud Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Consultant
6 12 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (9.01%) Azure Architect
8 8 (7.21%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Lead
9 7 (6.31%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.41%) Developer
10 6 (5.41%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Senior Technical Architect
10 6 (5.41%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.50%) Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (4.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) REST
2 6 (5.41%) .NET
2 6 (5.41%) RESTful
3 5 (4.50%) React
4 4 (3.60%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET
4 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (3.60%) Kafka
4 4 (3.60%) LangChain
4 4 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.70%) CSS
5 3 (2.70%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.70%) HTML
5 3 (2.70%) Material-UI
5 3 (2.70%) Middleware
5 3 (2.70%) Spring
6 2 (1.80%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.80%) Node.js
6 2 (1.80%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Cloud Native
1 14 (12.61%) Private Cloud
2 8 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.50%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.70%) Derivative
6 3 (2.70%) Replication
7 2 (1.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.80%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.90%) CMDB
8 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.90%) Equities
8 1 (0.90%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.90%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.61%) Linux
2 8 (7.21%) Windows
3 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.60%) Unix
4 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.70%) CentOS
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.54%) Agile
2 40 (36.04%) CI/CD
2 40 (36.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (34.23%) DevOps
4 23 (20.72%) Roadmaps
5 19 (17.12%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (17.12%) Software Engineering
6 18 (16.22%) Microservices
6 18 (16.22%) TDD
6 18 (16.22%) Test Automation
7 16 (14.41%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.41%) Mentoring
8 15 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (12.61%) Configuration Management
9 14 (12.61%) Scrum
10 13 (11.71%) Migration
11 12 (10.81%) Event-Driven
12 11 (9.91%) SDLC
13 10 (9.01%) Strategic Roadmap
13 10 (9.01%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.43%) Python
2 32 (28.83%) Java
3 17 (15.32%) Go
4 10 (9.01%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.21%) C#
5 8 (7.21%) PowerShell
5 8 (7.21%) SQL
5 8 (7.21%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.31%) Kotlin
7 6 (5.41%) Scala
8 5 (4.50%) Clojure
8 5 (4.50%) Elixir
8 5 (4.50%) Rust
9 4 (3.60%) Groovy
10 3 (2.70%) ABAP
11 2 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.90%) Bash
12 1 (0.90%) C++
12 1 (0.90%) CodeQL
Qualifications
1 25 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.81%) Degree
4 8 (7.21%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.50%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.80%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.80%) OCP
8 2 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.90%) CCDP
9 1 (0.90%) CCNA
9 1 (0.90%) CCNP
9 1 (0.90%) CCSP
9 1 (0.90%) CEH
9 1 (0.90%) GCIA
9 1 (0.90%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) QA
2 6 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.41%) NIST
3 4 (3.60%) GDPR
4 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.80%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (16.22%) Docker
2 10 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.21%) vSphere
4 4 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.70%) Lustre
5 3 (2.70%) vCloud
5 3 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (1.80%) Firmware
7 1 (0.90%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 42 (37.84%) Kubernetes
2 39 (35.14%) Terraform
3 21 (18.92%) Ansible
4 12 (10.81%) Grafana
5 8 (7.21%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.50%) Kibana
6 5 (4.50%) Puppet
7 3 (2.70%) Karpenter
7 3 (2.70%) Podman
7 3 (2.70%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.80%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.90%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.90%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.91%) VMware
3 10 (9.01%) Oracle
4 9 (8.11%) SAP
5 7 (6.31%) Google
6 5 (4.50%) Cisco
6 5 (4.50%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.60%) Databricks
8 3 (2.70%) AlgoSec
8 3 (2.70%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.70%) Splunk
8 3 (2.70%) Tufin
9 2 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.80%) F5
9 2 (1.80%) IBM
9 2 (1.80%) Juniper
9 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.80%) Sun
10 1 (0.90%) Concur