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 27 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 283 250
Rank change year-on-year -58 -33 -14
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 93 79 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.59% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 1.55% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 49 77
10th Percentile £500 £331 £415
25th Percentile £550 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £647 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +14.11% -9.28%
75th Percentile £788 £735 £650
90th Percentile £825 £805 £800
England median daily rate £600 £593 £575
% change year-on-year +1.27% +3.04% -6.12%
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 £45.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +61.11% -16.67% -30.77%

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 7,569 5,102 5,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.65% 38.12% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,728 3,340 3,761
10th Percentile £355 £333 £330
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 121 79
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.75 £23.45 £22.00
Median hourly rate £32.87 £27.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% -11.29% -11.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.75 £52.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.83 £50.00
% change year-on-year +21.84% -34.34% +9.05%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -20 11 £600 +20.00% 3
North London - 1 - -
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 (5.38%) Apache
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.15%) Confluence
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.08%) CloudStack
Business Applications
1 17 (18.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.38%) SAP SD
3 4 (4.30%) iTrent
3 4 (4.30%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.08%) Exchequer
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.86%) Azure
2 24 (25.81%) AWS
3 10 (10.75%) PaaS
3 10 (10.75%) SuccessFactors
4 9 (9.68%) GCP
4 9 (9.68%) IaaS
5 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.45%) Serverless
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (5.38%) SaaS
8 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.30%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.23%) GitHub
9 3 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.23%) OCI
9 3 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.15%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (2.15%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (2.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.83%) Network Security
2 9 (9.68%) DNS
3 7 (7.53%) Firewall
4 4 (4.30%) DHCP
4 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.30%) VLAN
4 4 (4.30%) VPN
5 3 (3.23%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.23%) NAS
5 3 (3.23%) SAN
5 3 (3.23%) SSH
6 2 (2.15%) LAN
6 2 (2.15%) WAN
7 1 (1.08%) Internet
7 1 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.08%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.15%) Power BI
2 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (19.35%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.15%) JIRA
4 1 (1.08%) Postman
4 1 (1.08%) SoapUI
General
1 27 (29.03%) Finance
2 16 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.53%) Banking
6 6 (6.45%) Billing
6 6 (6.45%) Local Government
7 4 (4.30%) Automotive
7 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Law
9 2 (2.15%) Legal
9 2 (2.15%) Police
10 1 (1.08%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (26.88%) Architect
2 19 (20.43%) Senior
3 10 (10.75%) Lead
4 8 (8.60%) Azure Architect
4 8 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Analyst
6 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Consultant
6 6 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.38%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (5.38%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 5 (5.38%) SAP SD Consultant
7 5 (5.38%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (5.38%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 5 (5.38%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
8 4 (4.30%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.43%) Terraform
2 5 (5.38%) JSON
2 5 (5.38%) Kafka
2 5 (5.38%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (5.38%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.30%) .NET
3 4 (4.30%) 802.1X
3 4 (4.30%) OAuth
4 3 (3.23%) NumPy
4 3 (3.23%) OpenID
4 3 (3.23%) Pandas
4 3 (3.23%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.23%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.23%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.15%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.15%) REST
5 2 (2.15%) SAML
5 2 (2.15%) Web Services
6 1 (1.08%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.38%) PKI
5 4 (4.30%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (4.30%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.30%) Robotics
5 4 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.08%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.08%) Replication
8 1 (1.08%) Thin Client
8 1 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.43%) Linux
2 8 (8.60%) Unix
3 7 (7.53%) Windows
4 5 (5.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.08%) Android
5 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (32.26%) DevOps
1 30 (32.26%) Migration
2 23 (24.73%) CI/CD
2 23 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (19.35%) Agile
4 14 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (12.90%) Change Management
5 12 (12.90%) Containerisation
5 12 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.83%) ERP
6 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure Automation
7 10 (10.75%) AI
7 10 (10.75%) Project Delivery
8 9 (9.68%) Cloud Security
8 9 (9.68%) Configuration Management
8 9 (9.68%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (9.68%) Microservices
9 8 (8.60%) Machine Learning
9 8 (8.60%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.51%) Python
2 14 (15.05%) PowerShell
3 10 (10.75%) Bash
4 9 (9.68%) Java
5 5 (5.38%) SQL
6 3 (3.23%) Bicep
6 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.15%) Ruby
8 1 (1.08%) Go
8 1 (1.08%) Groovy
8 1 (1.08%) Perl
8 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (6.45%) CCNP
5 5 (5.38%) Degree
6 4 (4.30%) JNCIP
6 4 (4.30%) JNCIS
7 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.23%) CCNA
7 3 (3.23%) CISSP
7 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.15%) CISM
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.08%) CIPFA
9 1 (1.08%) GIAC
9 1 (1.08%) PMP
9 1 (1.08%) SAP Certification
9 1 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) ISO 15022
1 4 (4.30%) ISO 20022
2 3 (3.23%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (3.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.08%) NIST
3 1 (1.08%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.53%) Docker
3 4 (4.30%) NFS
3 4 (4.30%) Postfix
3 4 (4.30%) Varnish
4 3 (3.23%) Sendmail
4 3 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (12.90%) Ansible
2 10 (10.75%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.45%) Packer
4 4 (4.30%) HAProxy
4 4 (4.30%) systemd
5 2 (2.15%) Grafana
5 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.15%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.08%) AirWatch
6 1 (1.08%) Argo
6 1 (1.08%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.08%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.08%) Nagios
6 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.08%) QRadar
6 1 (1.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (23.66%) SAP
2 18 (19.35%) Oracle
3 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.60%) VMware
5 5 (5.38%) Cisco
5 5 (5.38%) CyberArk
5 5 (5.38%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.30%) IBM
6 4 (4.30%) Juniper
6 4 (4.30%) MikroTik
6 4 (4.30%) Splunk
7 2 (2.15%) EMC
7 2 (2.15%) Google
8 1 (1.08%) Apple
8 1 (1.08%) Ariba
8 1 (1.08%) Commvault
8 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.08%) Veeam