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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 210 242
Rank change year-on-year -76 +32 -39
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 111 146 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 1.09% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 3.14% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 98 103
10th Percentile £405 £450 £500
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £619 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +5.77% -10.00%
75th Percentile £669 £729 £744
90th Percentile £733 £802 £832
England median daily rate £550 £613 £582
% change year-on-year -10.20% +5.24% -6.88%
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 - £70.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year - +20.69% -10.08%

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 5,867 4,646 5,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.95% 34.59% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 2,984 4,200
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £434 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.93%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £844 £813
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 64 178
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.54 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.48 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.00 £38.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +44.76% -21.06%
75th Percentile £57.00 £59.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £74.50 £80.75 £65.53
England median hourly rate £33.50 £37.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -9.46% +17.46% +40.00%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -29 11 £500 -22.18% 8
North London - 5 £700 -
South London - 5 £500 -
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 9 (8.11%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.80%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (10.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (6.31%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.90%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.90%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.90%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 51 (45.95%) Azure
2 38 (34.23%) AWS
3 32 (28.83%) GCP
4 19 (17.12%) GitHub
5 14 (12.61%) IaaS
5 14 (12.61%) OCI
6 13 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (11.71%) PaaS
7 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (5.41%) SaaS
9 4 (3.60%) iPaaS
10 3 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.70%) dbt
10 3 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.70%) Serverless
10 3 (2.70%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.61%) Firewall
1 14 (12.61%) Network Security
2 6 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.50%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.50%) VPN
3 5 (4.50%) WAN
4 4 (3.60%) Internet
4 4 (3.60%) Multicast
5 3 (2.70%) DNS
6 2 (1.80%) BGP
6 2 (1.80%) Broadband
6 2 (1.80%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.80%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.80%) DMZ
6 2 (1.80%) IOS XR
6 2 (1.80%) IPv6
6 2 (1.80%) Junos
6 2 (1.80%) NAS
6 2 (1.80%) OSPF
6 2 (1.80%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (2.70%) BigQuery
1 3 (2.70%) Data Vault
1 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.70%) Delta Lake
1 3 (2.70%) Power BI
1 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.90%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (16.22%) GitLab
1 18 (16.22%) JIRA
2 15 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.91%) Postman
4 9 (8.11%) Git
5 6 (5.41%) SoapUI
6 5 (4.50%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.90%) Ant
8 1 (0.90%) JUnit
8 1 (0.90%) Maven
8 1 (0.90%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.90%) Snyk
General
1 31 (27.93%) Finance
2 24 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 22 (19.82%) Banking
4 16 (14.41%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.41%) Local Government
6 5 (4.50%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.70%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Law
8 3 (2.70%) Military
8 3 (2.70%) Police
8 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (9.91%) Architect
1 11 (9.91%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (8.11%) Senior
3 8 (7.21%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
4 7 (6.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (5.41%) Cloud Specialist
5 6 (5.41%) Integration Specialist
5 6 (5.41%) Lead
5 6 (5.41%) Oracle Specialist
5 6 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Java Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Network Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (4.50%) Site Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.02%) REST
2 12 (10.81%) JSON
2 12 (10.81%) OAuth
2 12 (10.81%) SOAP
3 10 (9.01%) JWT
3 10 (9.01%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (9.01%) Web Services
3 10 (9.01%) XML
3 10 (9.01%) XSLT
4 7 (6.31%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.50%) Kafka
6 4 (3.60%) PyTorch
6 4 (3.60%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.70%) NumPy
7 3 (2.70%) Pandas
7 3 (2.70%) PySpark
7 3 (2.70%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.80%) ADO
8 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.70%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) CUDA
6 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.90%) Equities
6 1 (0.90%) FMCG
6 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.81%) Linux
2 8 (7.21%) Unix
3 6 (5.41%) Windows
4 5 (4.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (42.34%) DevOps
2 34 (30.63%) CI/CD
3 33 (29.73%) Migration
4 32 (28.83%) Agile
5 28 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (13.51%) Containerisation
8 14 (12.61%) ERP
8 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (10.81%) Analytics
9 12 (10.81%) Cloud Security
9 12 (10.81%) Project Delivery
10 11 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (9.91%) Microservices
11 10 (9.01%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (9.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (9.01%) Test Automation
12 9 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (7.21%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 34 (30.63%) Python
2 12 (10.81%) SQL
3 10 (9.01%) Java
4 3 (2.70%) Bash
4 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.80%) Ruby
5 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.90%) ABAP
6 1 (0.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 30 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (4.50%) CISM
4 5 (4.50%) CISSP
4 5 (4.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 5 (4.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.60%) Degree
6 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.80%) PMP
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.90%) CCNA
8 1 (0.90%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.21%) GDPR
3 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 3 (2.70%) NCSC
3 3 (2.70%) SLA
4 2 (1.80%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.80%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.80%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.90%) NIST
5 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 12 (10.81%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.90%) NFS
4 1 (0.90%) Postfix
4 1 (0.90%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.90%) Varnish
4 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (24.32%) Terraform
2 25 (22.52%) Kubernetes
3 16 (14.41%) Ansible
4 4 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.70%) Istio
5 3 (2.70%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.80%) Argo
6 2 (1.80%) Grafana
6 2 (1.80%) Puppet
6 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.90%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.90%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.90%) Nessus
7 1 (0.90%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (19.82%) Oracle
2 14 (12.61%) Google
3 12 (10.81%) SAP
4 9 (8.11%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.41%) Cisco
5 6 (5.41%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.41%) VMware
6 5 (4.50%) Aruba
6 5 (4.50%) Databricks
6 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.60%) Ariba
7 4 (3.60%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.70%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.70%) IBM
8 3 (2.70%) Informatica
8 3 (2.70%) Splunk
9 2 (1.80%) Dell
9 2 (1.80%) F5
9 2 (1.80%) Foundry
9 2 (1.80%) Palantir