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 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 218 244
Rank change year-on-year -88 +26 -35
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 75 162 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 1.04% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.34% 3.04% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 95 113
10th Percentile £386 £394 £414
25th Percentile £506 £495 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £681 £700
90th Percentile £758 £800 £825
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £43.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.86% -10.77%
England median hourly rate - £58.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -25.64% +20.93%

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 5,610 5,325 6,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.24% 34.13% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,591 3,406 4,672
10th Percentile £334 £325 £325
25th Percentile £427 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 64 105
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.84
25th Percentile £19.95 £25.17 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +17.50% -10.21%
75th Percentile £45.05 £56.69 £49.08
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £64.81
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -26 6 £563 -6.25% 6
North London - 4 £700 -
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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (12.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.33%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.33%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.33%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.33%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.33%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 39 (52.00%) AWS
2 37 (49.33%) Azure
3 21 (28.00%) GCP
4 17 (22.67%) GitHub
5 10 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.00%) IaaS
7 6 (8.00%) OCI
7 6 (8.00%) SaaS
8 5 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (6.67%) PaaS
9 4 (5.33%) iPaaS
10 3 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.67%) dbt
11 2 (2.67%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.33%) AWS Direct Connect
12 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.33%) Firewall
2 8 (10.67%) VPN
2 8 (10.67%) WAN
3 7 (9.33%) Network Security
4 6 (8.00%) SD-WAN
5 4 (5.33%) DNS
5 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.00%) Internet
7 2 (2.67%) BGP
7 2 (2.67%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (2.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.67%) DHCP
7 2 (2.67%) DMZ
7 2 (2.67%) IOS XR
7 2 (2.67%) IPv6
7 2 (2.67%) Junos
7 2 (2.67%) Multicast
7 2 (2.67%) NX-OS
7 2 (2.67%) OSPF
7 2 (2.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.33%) MySQL
3 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.33%) Power BI
3 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.33%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) GitLab
2 10 (13.33%) Git
3 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.67%) JIRA
5 4 (5.33%) Postman
5 4 (5.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.33%) JUnit
6 1 (1.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 20 (26.67%) Finance
2 18 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.67%) Banking
6 7 (9.33%) Local Government
6 7 (9.33%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.00%) Law
8 3 (4.00%) Police
8 3 (4.00%) Publishing
9 2 (2.67%) Billing
9 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.33%) Back Office
10 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.33%) French Language
10 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (13.33%) Architect
2 9 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (10.67%) Senior
4 6 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) Consultant
4 6 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (6.67%) Lead
5 5 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.67%) Technologist
6 4 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Architect
6 4 (5.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.33%) REST
2 5 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 4 (5.33%) JSON
3 4 (5.33%) JWT
3 4 (5.33%) OAuth
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (5.33%) SOAP
3 4 (5.33%) Web Services
3 4 (5.33%) XML
3 4 (5.33%) XSLT
4 2 (2.67%) Kafka
4 2 (2.67%) NumPy
4 2 (2.67%) Pandas
4 2 (2.67%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.67%) React
4 2 (2.67%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (2.67%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.67%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.33%) SAPUI5
5 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.33%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.00%) Replication
6 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.33%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) CMDB
7 1 (1.33%) FMCG
7 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.00%) Windows
2 3 (4.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.67%) VMS
4 1 (1.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) DevOps
2 28 (37.33%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (30.67%) Agile
5 17 (22.67%) Containerisation
6 15 (20.00%) Migration
7 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
7 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.00%) SDLC
8 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (13.33%) Test Automation
9 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (10.67%) Data Protection
10 8 (10.67%) ERP
10 8 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (9.33%) AI
11 7 (9.33%) Scrum
11 7 (9.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) Python
2 13 (17.33%) Java
3 10 (13.33%) Go
4 4 (5.33%) SQL
5 1 (1.33%) ABAP
5 1 (1.33%) DAML
5 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.33%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.33%) CCDP
6 1 (1.33%) CCNA
6 1 (1.33%) CCNP
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 3 (4.00%) NCSC
2 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
2 2 (2.67%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (17.33%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.67%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.67%) vSphere
5 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (34.67%) Terraform
2 18 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.00%) Ansible
4 2 (2.67%) Grafana
4 2 (2.67%) Istio
4 2 (2.67%) Kubeflow
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 10 (13.33%) Oracle
2 9 (12.00%) SAP
2 9 (12.00%) VMware
3 7 (9.33%) Cisco
4 5 (6.67%) Aruba
4 5 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.33%) Google
6 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.67%) Arista
7 2 (2.67%) Juniper
7 2 (2.67%) NetApp
8 1 (1.33%) Ariba
8 1 (1.33%) Brocade
8 1 (1.33%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.33%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.33%) IBM
8 1 (1.33%) Nokia
8 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow