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 29 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 302 246
Rank change year-on-year -57 -56 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 96 66 149
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.50% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.25% 1.28% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 37 77
10th Percentile £450 £319 £381
25th Percentile £513 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £647 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +17.64% -10.20%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £656
90th Percentile £825 £810 £809
England median daily rate £600 £588 £553
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.33% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £45.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - -19.64% -28.21%

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 7,704 5,140 5,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.10% 38.72% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,878 3,323 3,536
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £731
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 119 69
10th Percentile £16.94 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -16.19% +14.98%
75th Percentile £59.88 £46.35 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.75 £71.38
England median hourly rate £35.82 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +19.40% -47.69% +25.00%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -24 9 £650 +30.00% 18
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 (4.17%) Apache
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) CloudStack
4 1 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.21%) SAP SD
3 4 (4.17%) iTrent
3 4 (4.17%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.04%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 41 (42.71%) Azure
2 35 (36.46%) AWS
3 20 (20.83%) GCP
4 9 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (9.38%) SaaS
5 8 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (8.33%) PaaS
6 7 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (7.29%) IaaS
6 7 (7.29%) OpenShift
6 7 (7.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (6.25%) Serverless
8 5 (5.21%) GitHub
8 5 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.21%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.46%) Network Security
2 9 (9.38%) DNS
3 7 (7.29%) Firewall
4 4 (4.17%) DHCP
4 4 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.17%) VLAN
4 4 (4.17%) VPN
5 3 (3.13%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.13%) NAS
5 3 (3.13%) SAN
5 3 (3.13%) SSH
6 2 (2.08%) LAN
6 2 (2.08%) WAN
7 1 (1.04%) Internet
7 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.04%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.08%) Power BI
3 2 (2.08%) Power Query
3 2 (2.08%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (18.75%) Git
2 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.08%) JIRA
3 2 (2.08%) JUnit
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 34 (35.42%) Finance
2 22 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.33%) Banking
5 8 (8.33%) Billing
6 4 (4.17%) Automotive
6 4 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Local Government
6 4 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Law
8 2 (2.08%) Legal
8 2 (2.08%) Police
9 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (32.29%) Architect
2 19 (19.79%) Senior
3 9 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Analyst
4 8 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 8 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.29%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Consultant
6 6 (6.25%) Azure Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Lead
6 6 (6.25%) Security Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.21%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 5 (5.21%) SAP SD Consultant
7 5 (5.21%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (5.21%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 5 (5.21%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (28.13%) Terraform
2 5 (5.21%) Kafka
2 5 (5.21%) Pandas
2 5 (5.21%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (5.21%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.17%) .NET
3 4 (4.17%) 802.1X
3 4 (4.17%) JSON
3 4 (4.17%) Web Services
4 3 (3.13%) NumPy
4 3 (3.13%) OAuth
4 3 (3.13%) OpenID
4 3 (3.13%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.13%) REST
4 3 (3.13%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.13%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.08%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.08%) Pulumi
5 2 (2.08%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.29%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 6 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 5 (5.21%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (5.21%) PKI
6 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.17%) Robotics
6 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.08%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.04%) Fat Client
9 1 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.75%) Linux
2 9 (9.38%) Windows
3 8 (8.33%) Unix
4 5 (5.21%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.04%) Android
6 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 31 (32.29%) DevOps
3 30 (31.25%) Migration
4 27 (28.13%) CI/CD
5 19 (19.79%) Agile
6 17 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (14.58%) Cloud Security
7 14 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (13.54%) Change Management
9 12 (12.50%) Configuration Management
9 12 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (11.46%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (11.46%) Microservices
11 10 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (10.42%) Project Delivery
11 10 (10.42%) Security Architecture
12 9 (9.38%) AI
12 9 (9.38%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.96%) Python
2 14 (14.58%) PowerShell
3 11 (11.46%) Java
4 10 (10.42%) Bash
5 5 (5.21%) SQL
6 4 (4.17%) Go
7 3 (3.13%) Bicep
7 3 (3.13%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.08%) Ruby
9 1 (1.04%) Groovy
9 1 (1.04%) Perl
9 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (9.38%) AWS Certification
5 8 (8.33%) CISSP
5 8 (8.33%) Degree
6 6 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.25%) CCNP
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.21%) CISM
8 4 (4.17%) JNCIP
8 4 (4.17%) JNCIS
9 3 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (3.13%) CCNA
9 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.04%) CLAS
10 1 (1.04%) CREST Certified
10 1 (1.04%) IISP
10 1 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.17%) ISO 15022
2 4 (4.17%) ISO 20022
2 4 (4.17%) NIST
3 3 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (3.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) GRC
4 1 (1.04%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.04%) ISO 31000
4 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.29%) Docker
3 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.13%) NFS
4 3 (3.13%) Postfix
4 3 (3.13%) Sendmail
4 3 (3.13%) Varnish
4 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.04%) ISA Server
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) Ansible
2 15 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.25%) Packer
4 4 (4.17%) systemd
5 3 (3.13%) Grafana
5 3 (3.13%) HAProxy
5 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.08%) Puppet
6 2 (2.08%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.04%) AirWatch
7 1 (1.04%) Argo
7 1 (1.04%) CASB
7 1 (1.04%) Check_MK
7 1 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.04%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.04%) Nagios
7 1 (1.04%) QRadar
7 1 (1.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.71%) SAP
3 16 (16.67%) Oracle
4 10 (10.42%) Google
5 9 (9.38%) VMware
6 8 (8.33%) CyberArk
7 6 (6.25%) Cisco
8 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.21%) Splunk
9 4 (4.17%) IBM
9 4 (4.17%) Juniper
9 4 (4.17%) MikroTik
10 3 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (2.08%) Commvault
11 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
11 2 (2.08%) EMC
12 1 (1.04%) Apple
12 1 (1.04%) Ariba
12 1 (1.04%) F5
12 1 (1.04%) Veeam