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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 185 182
Rank change year-on-year +39 -3 +22
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 17 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.52% 0.33% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 1.42% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 24
10th Percentile £290 £121 £416
25th Percentile £319 £190 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £313 £533
Median % change year-on-year +28.60% -41.30% +13.44%
75th Percentile £481 £504 £703
90th Percentile £600 £679 £771
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £19.00
75th Percentile - £19.50 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.64%

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 1,021 1,339 1,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.05% 23.57% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 910 1,244
10th Percentile £250 £274 £250
25th Percentile £375 £407 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £656 £675 £715
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 55 52
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £15.58
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £32.77 £59.95 £65.25
90th Percentile £68.50 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Berkshire +26 11 £450 +262.90% 40
Thames Valley +21 11 £450 +262.90% 75
Hampshire - 4 £426 - 31
West Sussex +7 2 £285 -28.75% 13
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 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (11.76%) JBoss
3 1 (5.88%) CMS
3 1 (5.88%) Headless CMS
3 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) dbt
4 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
5 2 (11.76%) IaaS
5 2 (11.76%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
1 3 (17.65%) Network Security
2 2 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) Wireless
3 1 (5.88%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) Tableau
3 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) IntelliJ
2 2 (11.76%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) MSI
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Local Government
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Vue
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Replication
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) PKI
4 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) VMS
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
4 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
4 6 (35.29%) Data Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (35.29%) ETL
4 6 (35.29%) Validation
4 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
5 4 (23.53%) High Availability
6 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
6 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
6 3 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
5 3 (17.65%) Bicep
5 3 (17.65%) Scala
6 2 (11.76%) C#
7 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (5.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (23.53%) Master's Degree
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) CCSK
5 1 (5.88%) CEH
5 1 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.88%) GIAC
5 1 (5.88%) SANS
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) CASB
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.88%) Forcepoint
3 1 (5.88%) Google