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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 238 283
Rank change year-on-year -64 +45 -55
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 105 114 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.92% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 2.55% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 76 77
10th Percentile £413 £480 £450
25th Percentile £500 £525 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +10.87% -14.40%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £750
90th Percentile £825 £778 £830
England median daily rate £590 £613 £610
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.41% -4.31%
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 6,362 4,464 5,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.34% 36.03% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,068 3,015 4,130
10th Percentile £350 £336 £313
25th Percentile £450 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.29% -2.92%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £845 £850
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 84 148
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.48
25th Percentile £23.16 £23.42 £18.41
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +32.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.25 £49.94 £49.13
90th Percentile £88.75 £74.01 £69.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.91 £34.00
% change year-on-year +32.70% -0.26% +51.21%

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 20 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 20 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 -19 15 £550 -18.52% 6
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 (4.76%) Apache
1 5 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.90%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (10.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (7.62%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (3.81%) iTrent
3 4 (3.81%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.95%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 45 (42.86%) Azure
2 25 (23.81%) AWS
3 21 (20.00%) GCP
4 19 (18.10%) PaaS
5 17 (16.19%) IaaS
6 13 (12.38%) OCI
7 11 (10.48%) GitHub
8 7 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.67%) Serverless
9 6 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (5.71%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.81%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.86%) SaaS
13 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.90%) iPaaS
13 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.52%) Network Security
2 7 (6.67%) Firewall
3 6 (5.71%) DNS
4 4 (3.81%) Multicast
4 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.86%) NAS
5 3 (2.86%) SAN
6 2 (1.90%) BGP
6 2 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.90%) IPv6
6 2 (1.90%) OSPF
6 2 (1.90%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.95%) Broadband
7 1 (0.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.81%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (2.86%) Data Vault
2 3 (2.86%) Delta Lake
2 3 (2.86%) Power BI
2 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Git
2 12 (11.43%) GitLab
2 12 (11.43%) JIRA
3 10 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.52%) Postman
4 7 (6.67%) SoapUI
5 4 (3.81%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.95%) Ant
7 1 (0.95%) JUnit
7 1 (0.95%) Maven
7 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.95%) Snyk
General
1 23 (21.90%) Banking
2 22 (20.95%) Finance
3 16 (15.24%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.71%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.86%) General Ledger
6 3 (2.86%) Local Government
6 3 (2.86%) Military
7 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Retail
8 1 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (17.14%) Architect
2 11 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (9.52%) Azure Architect
3 10 (9.52%) Lead
4 8 (7.62%) Senior
5 7 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Oracle Specialist
5 7 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Cloud Specialist
6 6 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Integration Specialist
7 5 (4.76%) Analyst
7 5 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Java Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) SAP Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.10%) REST
2 11 (10.48%) JSON
2 11 (10.48%) OAuth
2 11 (10.48%) SOAP
3 10 (9.52%) Web Services
4 9 (8.57%) JWT
4 9 (8.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (8.57%) XML
4 9 (8.57%) XSLT
5 7 (6.67%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.76%) Kafka
7 3 (2.86%) PySpark
7 3 (2.86%) PyTorch
7 3 (2.86%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.90%) NumPy
8 2 (1.90%) Pandas
8 2 (1.90%) React
8 2 (1.90%) SAML
8 2 (1.90%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.86%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.86%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) NHS
6 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.95%) Replication
6 1 (0.95%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.19%) Linux
2 11 (10.48%) Unix
3 5 (4.76%) Windows
4 4 (3.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.10%) DevOps
2 37 (35.24%) Migration
3 29 (27.62%) CI/CD
4 23 (21.90%) Agile
4 23 (21.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (18.10%) ERP
6 15 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 13 (12.38%) Analytics
7 13 (12.38%) Cloud Security
8 12 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (10.48%) Microservices
9 11 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (8.57%) Project Delivery
11 9 (8.57%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (7.62%) Information Security
12 8 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (6.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.57%) Python
2 12 (11.43%) SQL
3 10 (9.52%) Java
4 6 (5.71%) Bash
4 6 (5.71%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.81%) Ruby
6 3 (2.86%) Bicep
7 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.95%) Perl
8 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (4.76%) CISM
4 5 (4.76%) CISSP
4 5 (4.76%) Degree
4 5 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 5 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.86%) PMP
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.95%) CCNA
7 1 (0.95%) CCNP
7 1 (0.95%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.71%) GDPR
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.86%) SLA
4 2 (1.90%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.90%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.90%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.95%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.95%) NIST
5 1 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (9.52%) Docker
2 5 (4.76%) NFS
2 5 (4.76%) Postfix
2 5 (4.76%) Varnish
3 4 (3.81%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (20.00%) Terraform
2 20 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 13 (12.38%) Ansible
4 5 (4.76%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.90%) Argo
5 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.90%) Puppet
5 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.95%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.95%) Istio
6 1 (0.95%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.95%) Nessus
6 1 (0.95%) Packer
6 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.95%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Oracle
2 16 (15.24%) SAP
3 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.52%) Google
5 5 (4.76%) Databricks
5 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.81%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.86%) Ariba
7 3 (2.86%) IBM
7 3 (2.86%) Informatica
7 3 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.86%) Splunk
8 2 (1.90%) Arista
8 2 (1.90%) Dell
8 2 (1.90%) F5
8 2 (1.90%) Foundry
8 2 (1.90%) Palantir
8 2 (1.90%) VMware
9 1 (0.95%) Nokia
9 1 (0.95%) Sitecore