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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 245 269
Rank change year-on-year -69 +24 -39
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 114 111 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.85% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 2.32% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 71 85
10th Percentile £460 £447 £435
25th Percentile £500 £575 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £567
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +16.84% -12.77%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £675
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £600 £613 £593
% change year-on-year -2.04% +3.38% -7.06%
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 7,019 4,787 5,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.37% 36.87% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,413 3,160 4,127
10th Percentile £354 £331 £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 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 100 143
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.44
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £18.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.40 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% +12.60% -22.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.94 £49.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.77 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +33.21% -9.59% +53.43%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -19 16 £550 -18.52% 7
South London - 5 £500 -
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 (6.14%) Confluence
2 6 (5.26%) Apache
3 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.75%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.88%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (13.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.39%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (3.51%) iTrent
3 4 (3.51%) SAP ERP
4 3 (2.63%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.88%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.98%) Azure
2 34 (29.82%) AWS
3 20 (17.54%) GCP
4 15 (13.16%) PaaS
5 13 (11.40%) IaaS
6 12 (10.53%) GitHub
7 9 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.89%) Serverless
7 9 (7.89%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (7.02%) OCI
9 7 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.39%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.39%) SaaS
11 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.51%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.51%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.65%) Network Security
2 6 (5.26%) DNS
3 5 (4.39%) Firewall
4 4 (3.51%) NAS
4 4 (3.51%) SAN
5 3 (2.63%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.63%) SSH
6 2 (1.75%) Multicast
6 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.88%) Internet
7 1 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.39%) Power BI
1 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.63%) Data Vault
3 3 (2.63%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (13.16%) Git
2 13 (11.40%) JIRA
3 8 (7.02%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.14%) GitLab
5 5 (4.39%) Postman
5 5 (4.39%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.88%) Ant
7 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.88%) JUnit
7 1 (0.88%) Maven
7 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.88%) Snyk
General
1 27 (23.68%) Finance
2 17 (14.91%) Banking
3 16 (14.04%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.40%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Local Government
6 5 (4.39%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Billing
7 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Military
8 2 (1.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (23.68%) Architect
2 13 (11.40%) Senior
3 10 (8.77%) Azure Architect
3 10 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (7.89%) Lead
5 7 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.14%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.39%) Analyst
7 5 (4.39%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Java Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Consultant
8 4 (3.51%) Oracle Specialist
8 4 (3.51%) Senior Java Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.77%) REST
2 8 (7.02%) OAuth
3 7 (6.14%) JSON
4 6 (5.26%) SOAP
4 6 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.26%) Web Services
5 5 (4.39%) JWT
5 5 (4.39%) Kafka
5 5 (4.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (4.39%) XML
5 5 (4.39%) XSLT
6 4 (3.51%) PyTorch
6 4 (3.51%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.63%) .NET
7 3 (2.63%) NumPy
7 3 (2.63%) Pandas
7 3 (2.63%) PySpark
7 3 (2.63%) SAML
7 3 (2.63%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (2.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.39%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.67%) Linux
2 10 (8.77%) Unix
3 9 (7.89%) Windows
4 2 (1.75%) VMS
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (34.21%) Migration
2 34 (29.82%) DevOps
3 29 (25.44%) CI/CD
4 25 (21.93%) Agile
5 23 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (13.16%) Containerisation
6 15 (13.16%) ERP
7 14 (12.28%) Cloud Security
8 13 (11.40%) Microservices
8 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (10.53%) Analytics
10 11 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.77%) Change Management
11 10 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (7.89%) Project Delivery
12 9 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (7.02%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.19%) Python
2 12 (10.53%) Java
2 12 (10.53%) SQL
3 11 (9.65%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.89%) Bash
5 5 (4.39%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.51%) Ruby
7 3 (2.63%) Bicep
8 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.88%) Groovy
9 1 (0.88%) Perl
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 26 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.77%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.26%) Degree
5 5 (4.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (4.39%) CISM
5 5 (4.39%) CISSP
5 5 (4.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 5 (4.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.63%) CCNA
7 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.75%) CCNP
7 2 (1.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.88%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.88%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.26%) GDPR
3 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.63%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.75%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.75%) NIST
4 2 (1.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (8.77%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) NFS
2 5 (4.39%) Postfix
2 5 (4.39%) Varnish
2 5 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.51%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (21.05%) Terraform
2 18 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.65%) Ansible
4 5 (4.39%) HAProxy
5 4 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.63%) Argo
6 3 (2.63%) Packer
7 2 (1.75%) Grafana
7 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.88%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.88%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.88%) Istio
8 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.88%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.88%) Puppet
8 1 (0.88%) QRadar
8 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (21.05%) Oracle
2 20 (17.54%) SAP
3 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.77%) ServiceNow
5 9 (7.89%) Google
6 5 (4.39%) CyberArk
6 5 (4.39%) Databricks
6 5 (4.39%) VMware
7 3 (2.63%) IBM
7 3 (2.63%) Informatica
7 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.63%) Splunk
8 2 (1.75%) Dell
8 2 (1.75%) F5
8 2 (1.75%) Foundry
8 2 (1.75%) Palantir
9 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto