Public Cloud Contracts 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 282 208
Rank change year-on-year +57 -74 -40
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 117 114 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.97% 0.65% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.67% 1.96% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 75 225
10th Percentile £480 £450 £468
25th Percentile £558 £503 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £567 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.64% -12.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £733 £716 £800
90th Percentile £799 £825 £846
England median daily rate £610 £610 £643
% change year-on-year - -5.06% +7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £65.35
25th Percentile - £52.00 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.50% +7.38%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £46.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +24.32% -40.71% -2.50%

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 4,380 5,824 9,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.14% 33.34% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,943 4,116 6,683
10th Percentile £333 £313 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £530 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 150 106
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.49 £18.47
25th Percentile £22.57 £19.40 £21.24
Median hourly rate £30.90 £27.42 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% -21.23% -19.98%
75th Percentile £47.06 £50.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £86.65
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.50 £22.21
% change year-on-year -4.48% +59.87% -16.21%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in London.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in London

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 29 May 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 +10 19 £675 +19.47% 8
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.42%) Apache
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) DataSynapse
2 1 (0.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.56%) SAP CO
2 3 (2.56%) SAP FI
2 3 (2.56%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.71%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.85%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (51.28%) AWS
2 58 (49.57%) Azure
3 22 (18.80%) GitHub
4 21 (17.95%) GCP
5 16 (13.68%) PaaS
6 14 (11.97%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (11.97%) SaaS
7 11 (9.40%) Amazon S3
8 10 (8.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (8.55%) IaaS
8 10 (8.55%) OpenShift
8 10 (8.55%) Serverless
9 7 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (4.27%) CloudFront
11 5 (4.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.40%) DNS
2 5 (4.27%) Firewall
3 3 (2.56%) Network Security
3 3 (2.56%) VPN
4 2 (1.71%) DHCP
4 2 (1.71%) HTTP
4 2 (1.71%) LAN
4 2 (1.71%) SMTP
4 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.98%) Big Data
4 5 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (4.27%) DocumentDB
4 5 (4.27%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.27%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.27%) Redis
5 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.71%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.71%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.71%) MySQL
6 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.71%) Power BI
7 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.85%) KDB
7 1 (0.85%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (17.09%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.40%) Git
3 10 (8.55%) SonarQube
4 9 (7.69%) CircleCI
5 6 (5.13%) Artifactory
5 6 (5.13%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.13%) JIRA
6 5 (4.27%) GitLab
7 3 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.21%) Finance
3 12 (10.26%) Banking
4 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.27%) Retail Banking
8 4 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.42%) Legal
8 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.56%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.56%) Law
9 3 (2.56%) Military
10 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.85%) Billing
11 1 (0.85%) Front Office
11 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (45.30%) Architect
2 29 (24.79%) Senior
3 17 (14.53%) Senior Architect
3 17 (14.53%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (11.11%) Consultant
4 13 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure Architect
6 11 (9.40%) Azure Architect
6 11 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (8.55%) Lead
8 7 (5.98%) SAP Consultant
8 7 (5.98%) Senior Technical Architect
8 7 (5.98%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.13%) AWS Architect
9 6 (5.13%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.13%) Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.84%) RESTful
2 7 (5.98%) REST
3 6 (5.13%) .NET
3 6 (5.13%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.42%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (3.42%) ASP.NET
4 4 (3.42%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (3.42%) LangChain
4 4 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.42%) React
5 3 (2.56%) CSS
5 3 (2.56%) HTML
5 3 (2.56%) Kafka
5 3 (2.56%) Material-UI
5 3 (2.56%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (2.56%) Spring
6 2 (1.71%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.71%) Middleware
6 2 (1.71%) Node.js
7 1 (0.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.95%) Private Cloud
2 10 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.55%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.27%) Derivative
5 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.71%) Replication
8 1 (0.85%) CMDB
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.85%) Equities
8 1 (0.85%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.85%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.11%) Linux
2 10 (8.55%) Windows
3 6 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.42%) Unix
6 3 (2.56%) CentOS
7 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.04%) Agile
2 38 (32.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (30.77%) DevOps
4 35 (29.91%) CI/CD
5 28 (23.93%) Roadmaps
6 19 (16.24%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (16.24%) Microservices
7 18 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (14.53%) TDD
9 16 (13.68%) Infrastructure Management
9 16 (13.68%) Software Engineering
10 14 (11.97%) Migration
10 14 (11.97%) Test Automation
11 13 (11.11%) Configuration Management
11 13 (11.11%) Event-Driven
11 13 (11.11%) SDLC
12 12 (10.26%) Containerisation
13 11 (9.40%) Mentoring
13 11 (9.40%) Software Architecture
14 10 (8.55%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (30.77%) Python
2 29 (24.79%) Java
3 12 (10.26%) Go
4 10 (8.55%) C#
4 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.55%) SQL
5 9 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.84%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.27%) Clojure
7 5 (4.27%) Elixir
7 5 (4.27%) Rust
7 5 (4.27%) Scala
8 3 (2.56%) ABAP
8 3 (2.56%) Bash
8 3 (2.56%) Groovy
8 3 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.26%) Degree
4 6 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.27%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.71%) OCP
8 2 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.85%) CCNA
9 1 (0.85%) CCSP
9 1 (0.85%) CEH
9 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.85%) GCIA
9 1 (0.85%) GCIH
9 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) QA
2 6 (5.13%) NIST
3 5 (4.27%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.42%) GDPR
5 2 (1.71%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.71%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (12.82%) Docker
2 10 (8.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.98%) vSphere
5 5 (4.27%) Active Directory
6 3 (2.56%) Lustre
6 3 (2.56%) vCloud
6 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.56%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.85%) Platform Symphony
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 36 (30.77%) Terraform
3 18 (15.38%) Ansible
4 13 (11.11%) Grafana
5 9 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.27%) Kibana
7 4 (3.42%) Puppet
8 3 (2.56%) Karpenter
8 3 (2.56%) Podman
8 3 (2.56%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.71%) VxRail
10 1 (0.85%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.85%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) Oracle
3 11 (9.40%) SAP
4 10 (8.55%) VMware
5 7 (5.98%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.13%) Google
7 3 (2.56%) AlgoSec
7 3 (2.56%) Cisco
7 3 (2.56%) Databricks
7 3 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.56%) Splunk
7 3 (2.56%) Tufin
8 2 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.71%) EMC
8 2 (1.71%) IBM
8 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.71%) Sun
9 1 (0.85%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.85%) TIBCO