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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 181 193
Rank change year-on-year +40 +12 +28
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 10 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.29% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 20
10th Percentile £301 £121 £424
25th Percentile £316 £190 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £313 £545
Median % change year-on-year +23.96% -42.64% +9.00%
75th Percentile £496 £504 £622
90th Percentile £556 £679 £755
England median daily rate £575 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £19.00
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +34.21% +8.57% -32.69%

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 871 1,320 1,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.72% 24.15% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 904 1,226
10th Percentile £250 £250 £251
25th Percentile £388 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £629
90th Percentile £652 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 53 51
10th Percentile - £16.25 £15.21
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.22 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.92% -3.27% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.50 £68.13
90th Percentile £74.75 £61.58 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.98 £21.37 £32.50
% change year-on-year +21.55% -34.25% +51.16%

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 22 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 22 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 +36 8 £388 +212.50% 39
Berkshire +35 8 £388 +212.50% 23
Hampshire +29 1 £508 - 20
West Sussex +15 1 £290 -27.50% 5
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 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
1 1 (10.00%) JBoss
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) IaaS
4 2 (20.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) ADSL
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) DSL
3 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) IPsec
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) TACACS
3 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless Security
3 1 (10.00%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) IT Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Support
3 1 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Vue
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Process Management
5 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Bicep
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) CCDP
3 1 (10.00%) CCIP
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) CCSK
3 1 (10.00%) CEH
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (10.00%) GIAC
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) CASB
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) ADVA
2 1 (10.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (10.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Juniper
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk