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 14 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 228 277
Rank change year-on-year -66 +49 -64
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 109 119 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.96% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.72% 2.68% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 80 79
10th Percentile £413 £492 £450
25th Percentile £500 £561 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £669 £731 £744
90th Percentile £825 £791 £828
England median daily rate £576 £620 £610
% change year-on-year -7.11% +1.64% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +3.57% +81.82% -50.64%

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 6,319 4,441 5,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.49% 35.92% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,039 3,008 4,141
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £445 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 78 150
10th Percentile £18.18 £15.84 £15.49
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.02 £17.64
Median hourly rate £34.62 £35.20 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% +35.37% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.00 £50.31 £49.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.11 £69.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £34.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year +30.43% +7.43% +42.83%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -16 15 £550 -18.52% 7
South London - 5 £500 -
North London - 4 - -
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 5 (4.59%) Apache
1 5 (4.59%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.83%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (10.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (7.34%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (2.75%) iTrent
3 3 (2.75%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.92%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 49 (44.95%) Azure
2 28 (25.69%) AWS
3 25 (22.94%) GCP
4 20 (18.35%) PaaS
5 18 (16.51%) IaaS
6 16 (14.68%) OCI
7 13 (11.93%) GitHub
8 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.42%) Serverless
9 6 (5.50%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (5.50%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.75%) iPaaS
11 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.75%) SaaS
12 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.93%) Network Security
2 10 (9.17%) Firewall
3 6 (5.50%) DNS
4 4 (3.67%) Multicast
4 4 (3.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.75%) Internet
5 3 (2.75%) NAS
5 3 (2.75%) SAN
6 2 (1.83%) BGP
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.83%) DMZ
6 2 (1.83%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.83%) IOS XR
6 2 (1.83%) IPv6
6 2 (1.83%) Junos
6 2 (1.83%) NX-OS
6 2 (1.83%) OSPF
6 2 (1.83%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.75%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (2.75%) Data Vault
1 3 (2.75%) Delta Lake
1 3 (2.75%) Power BI
1 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
1 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.83%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Git
2 12 (11.01%) GitLab
2 12 (11.01%) JIRA
3 11 (10.09%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.09%) Postman
4 7 (6.42%) SoapUI
5 4 (3.67%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.92%) Ant
7 1 (0.92%) JUnit
7 1 (0.92%) Maven
7 1 (0.92%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.92%) Snyk
General
1 24 (22.02%) Finance
2 23 (21.10%) Banking
3 18 (16.51%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.50%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.75%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.75%) Military
8 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Local Government
8 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Retail
9 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (16.51%) Architect
2 12 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (9.17%) Azure Architect
3 10 (9.17%) Lead
4 8 (7.34%) Senior
5 7 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Oracle Specialist
5 7 (6.42%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Cloud Specialist
6 6 (5.50%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Integration Specialist
6 6 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Analyst
7 5 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Java Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) SAP Analyst
8 4 (3.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.35%) REST
2 12 (11.01%) JSON
2 12 (11.01%) OAuth
2 12 (11.01%) SOAP
3 11 (10.09%) Web Services
4 10 (9.17%) JWT
4 10 (9.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (9.17%) XML
4 10 (9.17%) XSLT
5 7 (6.42%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.59%) Kafka
7 4 (3.67%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.67%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.75%) NumPy
8 3 (2.75%) Pandas
8 3 (2.75%) PySpark
8 3 (2.75%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.83%) React
9 2 (1.83%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.42%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.59%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.59%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.75%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.92%) NHS
7 1 (0.92%) Replication
7 1 (0.92%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.60%) Linux
2 11 (10.09%) Unix
3 5 (4.59%) Windows
4 4 (3.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.45%) DevOps
2 37 (33.94%) Migration
3 32 (29.36%) CI/CD
4 25 (22.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (22.02%) Agile
6 19 (17.43%) ERP
7 16 (14.68%) Containerisation
8 13 (11.93%) Analytics
8 13 (11.93%) Cloud Security
8 13 (11.93%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (10.09%) Microservices
11 10 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (8.26%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (8.26%) Project Delivery
12 9 (8.26%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (7.34%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.36%) Python
2 14 (12.84%) SQL
3 10 (9.17%) Java
4 6 (5.50%) Bash
4 6 (5.50%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.67%) Ruby
6 3 (2.75%) Bicep
7 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.92%) Perl
8 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (27.52%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (4.59%) CISM
4 5 (4.59%) CISSP
4 5 (4.59%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 5 (4.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.75%) PMP
6 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.92%) CCNA
7 1 (0.92%) CCNP
7 1 (0.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.50%) GDPR
3 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.75%) SLA
4 2 (1.83%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.83%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.83%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.92%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.92%) NIST
5 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (10.09%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) NFS
2 5 (4.59%) Postfix
2 5 (4.59%) Varnish
3 4 (3.67%) Sendmail
4 3 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (21.10%) Terraform
2 22 (20.18%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.93%) Ansible
4 5 (4.59%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.83%) Argo
5 2 (1.83%) Istio
5 2 (1.83%) Kubeflow
5 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.83%) Puppet
5 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.92%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.92%) Nessus
6 1 (0.92%) Packer
6 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.92%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (22.02%) Oracle
2 14 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.84%) SAP
3 12 (11.01%) Google
4 5 (4.59%) Databricks
4 5 (4.59%) Palo Alto
4 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.67%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.75%) Ariba
6 3 (2.75%) IBM
6 3 (2.75%) Informatica
6 3 (2.75%) Splunk
7 2 (1.83%) Arista
7 2 (1.83%) Cisco
7 2 (1.83%) Dell
7 2 (1.83%) F5
7 2 (1.83%) Foundry
7 2 (1.83%) Juniper
7 2 (1.83%) Palantir
7 2 (1.83%) VMware