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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 228 262
Rank change year-on-year -42 +34 -65
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 102 140 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 1.02% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 2.97% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 81 101
10th Percentile £359 £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 £668 £688 £725
90th Percentile £736 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -6.12%
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 - £59.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -24.36% +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 5,517 4,707 6,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.99% 34.13% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,585 2,965 4,316
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% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £702
90th Percentile £800 £844 £804
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 58 158
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.81 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.48 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.54 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year -26.74% +33.46% -6.25%
75th Percentile £52.19 £63.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.49 £65.53
England median hourly rate £30.05 £37.50 £34.61
% change year-on-year -19.86% +8.37% +53.90%

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 26 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 26 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 -22 12 £500 -18.37% 12
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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.90%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.98%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.98%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.98%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 48 (47.06%) Azure
2 36 (35.29%) AWS
3 29 (28.43%) GCP
4 18 (17.65%) GitHub
5 13 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (11.76%) OCI
7 11 (10.78%) IaaS
8 10 (9.80%) PaaS
9 8 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (6.86%) SaaS
11 6 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (4.90%) iPaaS
13 4 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (3.92%) Power Platform
14 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
14 3 (2.94%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.94%) Serverless
15 2 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 2 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.73%) Firewall
1 14 (13.73%) Network Security
2 6 (5.88%) SD-WAN
2 6 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.88%) VPN
2 6 (5.88%) WAN
3 4 (3.92%) Internet
3 4 (3.92%) Multicast
4 2 (1.96%) BGP
4 2 (1.96%) Broadband
4 2 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.96%) DMZ
4 2 (1.96%) DNS
4 2 (1.96%) IOS XR
4 2 (1.96%) IPv6
4 2 (1.96%) Junos
4 2 (1.96%) NAS
4 2 (1.96%) OSPF
4 2 (1.96%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.92%) Power BI
1 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.94%) Data Vault
2 3 (2.94%) Delta Lake
2 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.96%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.98%) MySQL
4 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.98%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (15.69%) GitLab
2 15 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 14 (13.73%) JIRA
4 10 (9.80%) Postman
5 8 (7.84%) Git
6 4 (3.92%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.94%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.98%) JUnit
General
1 30 (29.41%) Finance
2 20 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.69%) Banking
3 16 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.86%) Local Government
5 6 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.94%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.94%) Law
7 3 (2.94%) Police
8 2 (1.96%) Military
8 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.98%) Billing
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (10.78%) Architect
3 8 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (7.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (6.86%) Senior
5 6 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Analyst
6 5 (4.90%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (4.90%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Lead
6 5 (4.90%) Network Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Site Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Technologist
7 4 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Consultant
7 4 (3.92%) Integration Specialist
7 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.63%) REST
2 11 (10.78%) OAuth
3 10 (9.80%) JSON
3 10 (9.80%) SOAP
4 9 (8.82%) JWT
4 9 (8.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (8.82%) XML
4 9 (8.82%) XSLT
5 8 (7.84%) Web Services
6 6 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.90%) Kafka
8 3 (2.94%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.94%) Spring
9 2 (1.96%) ADO
9 2 (1.96%) NumPy
9 2 (1.96%) Pandas
9 2 (1.96%) React
9 2 (1.96%) SAML
9 2 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (1.96%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.84%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.86%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.94%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.94%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.96%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.98%) FMCG
8 1 (0.98%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.98%) NHS
8 1 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.82%) Linux
2 8 (7.84%) Windows
3 6 (5.88%) Unix
3 6 (5.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (44.12%) DevOps
2 33 (32.35%) CI/CD
3 29 (28.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (26.47%) Agile
4 27 (26.47%) Migration
5 15 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (13.73%) Containerisation
6 14 (13.73%) ERP
7 13 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (11.76%) Project Delivery
9 11 (10.78%) Analytics
9 11 (10.78%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (10.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (8.82%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.84%) Data Analysis
11 8 (7.84%) Data Protection
11 8 (7.84%) Microservices
11 8 (7.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 28 (27.45%) Python
2 12 (11.76%) SQL
3 9 (8.82%) Java
4 2 (1.96%) Bash
4 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.98%) ABAP
5 1 (0.98%) Go
5 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.92%) Degree
4 3 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.96%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.96%) PMP
6 1 (0.98%) CCNA
6 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.98%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (2.94%) NCSC
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) SLA
4 1 (0.98%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 10 (9.80%) Docker
2 5 (4.90%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (27.45%) Terraform
2 21 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 15 (14.71%) Ansible
4 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.94%) Istio
6 2 (1.96%) Grafana
6 2 (1.96%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.96%) Puppet
6 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.98%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (19.61%) Oracle
2 12 (11.76%) SAP
3 11 (10.78%) Google
4 10 (9.80%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.86%) Cisco
5 7 (6.86%) VMware
6 6 (5.88%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.90%) Aruba
7 5 (4.90%) Databricks
8 4 (3.92%) Ariba
8 4 (3.92%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.94%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.94%) Informatica
10 2 (1.96%) Arista
10 2 (1.96%) Dell
10 2 (1.96%) Ericsson
10 2 (1.96%) F5
10 2 (1.96%) Foundry
10 2 (1.96%) Juniper
10 2 (1.96%) Nokia