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 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 238 281
Rank change year-on-year -74 +43 -64
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 110 111 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.91% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 2.49% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 72 79
10th Percentile £428 £480 £450
25th Percentile £500 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £669 £567
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% +17.95% -12.77%
75th Percentile £695 £738 £716
90th Percentile £825 £821 £828
England median daily rate £600 £623 £600
% change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £52.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £54.00
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £57.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year +26.09% +24.32% -40.71%

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 6,682 4,457 5,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.87% 36.40% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,251 2,971 4,140
10th Percentile £358 £333 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 88 146
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.46
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.50 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.70 £27.42
Median % change year-on-year +3.87% +22.88% -21.66%
75th Percentile £61.00 £49.56 £50.63
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.88 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.27
% change year-on-year +29.64% -6.51% +61.32%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -18 13 £550 -18.52% 9
South London - 5 £500 - 1
North London - 2 - -
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 7 (6.36%) Confluence
2 5 (4.55%) Apache
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.82%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (7.27%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (3.64%) iTrent
3 4 (3.64%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.91%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.91%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 48 (43.64%) Azure
2 28 (25.45%) AWS
3 21 (19.09%) GCP
4 18 (16.36%) PaaS
5 16 (14.55%) IaaS
6 13 (11.82%) GitHub
7 12 (10.91%) OCI
8 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (8.18%) Serverless
9 8 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (6.36%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (2.73%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.73%) SaaS
13 3 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.82%) AWS CloudTrail
14 2 (1.82%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.00%) Network Security
2 6 (5.45%) DNS
2 6 (5.45%) Firewall
3 3 (2.73%) NAS
3 3 (2.73%) SAN
4 2 (1.82%) Multicast
4 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.91%) Broadband
5 1 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.64%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (2.73%) Data Vault
2 3 (2.73%) Delta Lake
2 3 (2.73%) Power BI
2 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (13.64%) Git
2 13 (11.82%) JIRA
3 10 (9.09%) GitLab
3 10 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 9 (8.18%) Postman
5 7 (6.36%) SoapUI
6 4 (3.64%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.91%) Ant
8 1 (0.91%) JUnit
8 1 (0.91%) Maven
8 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.91%) Snyk
General
1 27 (24.55%) Finance
2 22 (20.00%) Banking
3 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.55%) Local Government
6 4 (3.64%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.73%) Military
7 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Billing
9 1 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (20.00%) Architect
2 11 (10.00%) Senior
3 10 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 10 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.18%) Lead
5 8 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) Oracle Specialist
6 7 (6.36%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Cloud Specialist
7 6 (5.45%) Integration Specialist
7 6 (5.45%) Java Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.64%) SAP Analyst
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.64%) REST
2 12 (10.91%) OAuth
3 10 (9.09%) JSON
3 10 (9.09%) SOAP
4 9 (8.18%) Web Services
5 8 (7.27%) JWT
5 8 (7.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (7.27%) Spring Boot
5 8 (7.27%) XML
5 8 (7.27%) XSLT
6 6 (5.45%) Kafka
7 4 (3.64%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.64%) SAML
7 4 (3.64%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.73%) NumPy
8 3 (2.73%) Pandas
8 3 (2.73%) PySpark
8 3 (2.73%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.82%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.45%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.73%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.73%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.91%) CUDA
6 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.91%) Equities
6 1 (0.91%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.91%) NHS
6 1 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.55%) Linux
2 11 (10.00%) Unix
3 5 (4.55%) Windows
4 4 (3.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.18%) DevOps
2 38 (34.55%) Migration
3 32 (29.09%) CI/CD
4 26 (23.64%) Agile
4 26 (23.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (17.27%) ERP
6 17 (15.45%) Containerisation
7 13 (11.82%) Analytics
8 12 (10.91%) Cloud Security
8 12 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (10.00%) Microservices
10 10 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (8.18%) Change Management
11 9 (8.18%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.27%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.45%) Python
2 13 (11.82%) Java
3 12 (10.91%) SQL
4 8 (7.27%) Bash
4 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.64%) Ruby
7 3 (2.73%) Bicep
8 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.91%) Perl
9 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.18%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.36%) Degree
5 5 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (4.55%) CISM
5 5 (4.55%) CISSP
5 5 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 5 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.73%) CCNA
6 3 (2.73%) PMP
7 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.82%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.91%) CCNP
8 1 (0.91%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.91%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.45%) GDPR
3 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.82%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.82%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.82%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.91%) NIST
5 1 (0.91%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (9.09%) Docker
2 5 (4.55%) NFS
2 5 (4.55%) Postfix
2 5 (4.55%) Varnish
3 4 (3.64%) Sendmail
3 4 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (21.82%) Terraform
2 19 (17.27%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.82%) Ansible
4 5 (4.55%) HAProxy
5 3 (2.73%) Packer
6 2 (1.82%) Argo
6 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.91%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.91%) Istio
7 1 (0.91%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.91%) Nessus
7 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.91%) Puppet
7 1 (0.91%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (22.73%) Oracle
2 20 (18.18%) SAP
3 13 (11.82%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.09%) Google
5 7 (6.36%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.55%) Databricks
7 4 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.64%) VMware
8 3 (2.73%) Ariba
8 3 (2.73%) IBM
8 3 (2.73%) Informatica
8 3 (2.73%) Splunk
9 2 (1.82%) Dell
9 2 (1.82%) F5
9 2 (1.82%) Foundry
9 2 (1.82%) Palantir
10 1 (0.91%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto