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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 245 221
Rank change year-on-year -63 -24 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 70 141 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.90% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 2.64% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 79 151
10th Percentile £338 £386 £413
25th Percentile £533 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £735 £650 £750
90th Percentile £830 £784 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £64.40
25th Percentile - £52.00 £74.00
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -40.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £56.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £58.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -22.41% -25.64% +7.96%

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 5,204 5,343 7,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.81% 33.96% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 3,435 5,101
10th Percentile £337 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 64 93
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.33 £18.11
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.06 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +17.77% +2.04%
75th Percentile £46.35 £57.81 £49.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £71.75
England median hourly rate £27.53 £51.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -46.28% +15.17% +66.85%

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 October 2025.

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 October 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 -27 8 £574 -4.42% 22
North London - 1 £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 5 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) nginx
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.86%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.86%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.86%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.43%) Cloudability
3 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (67.14%) AWS
2 37 (52.86%) Azure
3 27 (38.57%) GitHub
4 24 (34.29%) GCP
5 19 (27.14%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (12.86%) SaaS
7 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (5.71%) IaaS
10 3 (4.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (4.29%) OCI
10 3 (4.29%) PaaS
10 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.86%) iPaaS
12 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.43%) AWS Direct Connect
12 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.14%) WAN
2 10 (14.29%) VPN
3 9 (12.86%) Firewall
4 6 (8.57%) SD-WAN
5 4 (5.71%) DNS
5 4 (5.71%) LAN
5 4 (5.71%) Network Security
5 4 (5.71%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.71%) VLAN
6 2 (2.86%) BGP
6 2 (2.86%) DHCP
6 2 (2.86%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (2.86%) IPsec
6 2 (2.86%) Multicast
6 2 (2.86%) OSPF
6 2 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.86%) VSAN
6 2 (2.86%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) Power BI
2 2 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.43%) Big Data
3 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.43%) Pentaho
3 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (18.57%) Git
2 12 (17.14%) GitLab
3 9 (12.86%) Jenkins
4 8 (11.43%) JIRA
5 5 (7.14%) CircleCI
5 5 (7.14%) TeamCity
6 4 (5.71%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.86%) Postman
8 1 (1.43%) JUnit
8 1 (1.43%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 18 (25.71%) Finance
2 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.71%) Banking
4 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Law
6 3 (4.29%) Local Government
6 3 (4.29%) Police
6 3 (4.29%) Publishing
7 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Military
8 1 (1.43%) Back Office
8 1 (1.43%) Billing
8 1 (1.43%) French Language
8 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Architect
2 14 (20.00%) Senior
3 9 (12.86%) Technical Architect
4 8 (11.43%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.57%) Azure Architect
6 6 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (8.57%) Senior Architect
7 5 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Consultant
8 4 (5.71%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Technical Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) REST
2 5 (7.14%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.29%) JSON
3 3 (4.29%) Kafka
4 2 (2.86%) JWT
4 2 (2.86%) Middleware
4 2 (2.86%) OAuth
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.86%) React
4 2 (2.86%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (2.86%) SOAP
4 2 (2.86%) Web Services
4 2 (2.86%) XML
4 2 (2.86%) XSLT
5 1 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.43%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.43%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (1.43%) Spring
5 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.29%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.29%) Replication
5 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.43%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.43%) CMDB
6 1 (1.43%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.43%) FMCG
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Windows
2 2 (2.86%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) VMS
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (48.57%) CI/CD
3 27 (38.57%) DevOps
4 23 (32.86%) Agile
5 15 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 13 (18.57%) Mentoring
7 12 (17.14%) Scrum
8 10 (14.29%) Microservices
8 10 (14.29%) Migration
8 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (12.86%) SDLC
9 9 (12.86%) TDD
10 8 (11.43%) Data Protection
10 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (11.43%) Roadmaps
10 8 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (8.57%) Code Quality
11 6 (8.57%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.43%) Python
2 17 (24.29%) Java
3 14 (20.00%) Go
4 5 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.71%) Groovy
5 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.43%) ABAP
6 1 (1.43%) CodeQL
6 1 (1.43%) DAML
6 1 (1.43%) Scala
6 1 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Degree
4 3 (4.29%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.43%) CCDP
6 1 (1.43%) CCNP
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.71%) QA
3 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 3 (4.29%) NCSC
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Docker
2 5 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.71%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.86%) Firmware
4 2 (2.86%) vSphere
5 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (50.00%) Terraform
2 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (17.14%) Ansible
4 7 (10.00%) Grafana
4 7 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.71%) Puppet
6 2 (2.86%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.43%) Istio
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Cisco
2 7 (10.00%) SAP
3 5 (7.14%) Aruba
3 5 (7.14%) VMware
4 4 (5.71%) Oracle
5 3 (4.29%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.86%) Databricks
6 2 (2.86%) F5
6 2 (2.86%) Google
6 2 (2.86%) Juniper
6 2 (2.86%) NetApp
6 2 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.43%) Ariba
7 1 (1.43%) Brocade
7 1 (1.43%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow