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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 269 263
Rank change year-on-year -68 -6 -17
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 100 103 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.76% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 2.03% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 66 79
10th Percentile £500 £379 £420
25th Percentile £525 £561 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £567
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +14.64% -12.60%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £658
90th Percentile £825 £813 £805
England median daily rate £610 £600 £593
% change year-on-year +1.67% +1.27% -5.20%
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 £54.00
% change year-on-year +26.09% +6.48% -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 7,426 5,070 5,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.00% 37.27% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,660 3,344 3,887
10th Percentile £358 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £825 £855
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 115 86
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -8.65% -13.99%
75th Percentile £59.52 £45.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.38 £45.00
% change year-on-year +35.76% -28.04% +9.76%

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 31 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 31 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 -14 12 £625 -6.51% 7
South London - 5 £500 -
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 7 (7.00%) Confluence
2 6 (6.00%) Apache
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.00%) CloudStack
Business Applications
1 16 (16.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.00%) SAP SD
3 4 (4.00%) iTrent
3 4 (4.00%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.00%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 41 (41.00%) Azure
2 28 (28.00%) AWS
3 12 (12.00%) GCP
3 12 (12.00%) PaaS
4 11 (11.00%) IaaS
5 10 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
6 7 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.00%) Serverless
7 5 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (5.00%) OCI
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.00%) GitHub
8 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.00%) SaaS
9 3 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.00%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.00%) Network Security
2 10 (10.00%) DNS
3 6 (6.00%) Firewall
4 4 (4.00%) DHCP
4 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.00%) VLAN
4 4 (4.00%) VPN
5 3 (3.00%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.00%) SSH
6 2 (2.00%) NAS
6 2 (2.00%) SAN
7 1 (1.00%) Internet
7 1 (1.00%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (20.00%) Git
2 7 (7.00%) JIRA
3 4 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.00%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.00%) GitLab
5 2 (2.00%) Postman
6 1 (1.00%) Ant
6 1 (1.00%) JUnit
6 1 (1.00%) Maven
6 1 (1.00%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (28.00%) Finance
2 16 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.00%) Banking
5 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Local Government
7 5 (5.00%) Billing
8 4 (4.00%) Automotive
9 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Law
10 2 (2.00%) Legal
10 2 (2.00%) Police
10 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.00%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.00%) Military
11 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (26.00%) Architect
2 20 (20.00%) Senior
3 9 (9.00%) Azure Architect
3 9 (9.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (9.00%) Lead
4 7 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.00%) Consultant
5 6 (6.00%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.00%) Analyst
6 5 (5.00%) Java Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
6 5 (5.00%) SAP SD Consultant
6 5 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Senior SAP Consultant
6 5 (5.00%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) JSON
1 5 (5.00%) Kafka
1 5 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
1 5 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.00%) 802.1X
2 4 (4.00%) OAuth
2 4 (4.00%) PyTorch
2 4 (4.00%) REST
2 4 (4.00%) TensorFlow
2 4 (4.00%) Web Services
3 3 (3.00%) .NET
3 3 (3.00%) NumPy
3 3 (3.00%) Pandas
3 3 (3.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.00%) SOAP
4 2 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.00%) JWT
4 2 (2.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.00%) XML
4 2 (2.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (4.00%) PKI
4 4 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.00%) Robotics
5 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.00%) CUDA
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.00%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.00%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.00%) Linux
2 9 (9.00%) Unix
3 7 (7.00%) Windows
4 5 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.00%) Android
5 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.00%) Migration
2 31 (31.00%) DevOps
3 25 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 23 (23.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (22.00%) Agile
6 14 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (13.00%) Cloud Security
7 13 (13.00%) Containerisation
7 13 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (12.00%) Change Management
8 12 (12.00%) ERP
9 11 (11.00%) AI
9 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (11.00%) Microservices
10 10 (10.00%) Configuration Management
10 10 (10.00%) Machine Learning
11 9 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (9.00%) Project Delivery
11 9 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (8.00%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.00%) Python
2 14 (14.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (11.00%) Bash
3 11 (11.00%) Java
4 5 (5.00%) SQL
5 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.00%) Bicep
6 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.00%) Ruby
7 1 (1.00%) Go
7 1 (1.00%) Groovy
7 1 (1.00%) Perl
7 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (7.00%) CISM
4 7 (7.00%) CISSP
5 6 (6.00%) CCNP
6 5 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (5.00%) Degree
6 5 (5.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 5 (5.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (4.00%) JNCIP
7 4 (4.00%) JNCIS
8 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.00%) CCNA
8 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.00%) CIPFA
10 1 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.00%) GDPR
3 5 (5.00%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (3.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (3.00%) ISO 15022
4 3 (3.00%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.00%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.00%) NIST
5 1 (1.00%) PMO
5 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.00%) NFS
2 5 (5.00%) Postfix
2 5 (5.00%) Varnish
2 5 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.00%) Sendmail
4 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (21.00%) Terraform
2 13 (13.00%) Ansible
3 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.00%) Packer
5 5 (5.00%) HAProxy
6 4 (4.00%) systemd
7 2 (2.00%) Argo
7 2 (2.00%) Grafana
7 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.00%) AirWatch
8 1 (1.00%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.00%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.00%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.00%) Nagios
8 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.00%) QRadar
8 1 (1.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (21.00%) SAP
2 19 (19.00%) Oracle
3 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.00%) Cisco
5 5 (5.00%) CyberArk
5 5 (5.00%) VMware
6 4 (4.00%) Google
6 4 (4.00%) IBM
6 4 (4.00%) Juniper
6 4 (4.00%) MikroTik
7 3 (3.00%) Splunk
8 1 (1.00%) Apple
8 1 (1.00%) Commvault
8 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.00%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.00%) Veeam