Cloud Computing Contracts in the South East

Cloud Computing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 191 185
Rank change year-on-year +41 -6 +37
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 9 14 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.25% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 1.02% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 32
10th Percentile £318 £118 £454
25th Percentile £325 £121 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £225 £569
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -60.49% +13.89%
75th Percentile £475 £473 £641
90th Percentile £550 £628 £818
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.93
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year - -27.62% +0.96%
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £30.56
90th Percentile - - £32.78
England median hourly rate £25.50 £18.75 £18.75
% change year-on-year +36.00% - -27.88%

All Cloud Skills
South East

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +43 9 £450 +262.90% 23
Berkshire +35 9 £450 +262.90% 11
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) ADSL
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) DSL
3 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
3 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) MPLS
3 1 (11.11%) OSPF
3 1 (11.11%) PPP
3 1 (11.11%) RIP
3 1 (11.11%) SNMP
3 1 (11.11%) TACACS
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Network Support
3 1 (11.11%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) SIEM
5 1 (11.11%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bicep
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) CCDP
2 1 (11.11%) CCIP
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) CCSK
2 1 (11.11%) CEH
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (11.11%) GIAC
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SANS
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ADVA
2 1 (11.11%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 1 (11.11%) Forcepoint
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) VMware