Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in the South East

Cloud Computing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 162 172
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 +31
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 15 23 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.44% 0.50% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.95% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 31
10th Percentile £287 £383 £300
25th Percentile £374 £386 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £521 £738 £719
90th Percentile £576 £793 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £19.43 -
25th Percentile - £20.81 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £23.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -13.64%
75th Percentile - £26.81 £19.50
90th Percentile - £28.28 -
England median hourly rate £15.50 £23.75 £18.25
% change year-on-year -34.74% +30.14% +4.29%

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 1,025 1,182 1,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.81% 25.76% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 819 1,154
10th Percentile £204 £306 £207
25th Percentile £357 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +3.19%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £673 £705
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 22 54
10th Percentile - £17.77 £16.43
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.66 £19.81
Median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year -53.53% +45.53% +33.41%
75th Percentile £30.00 £60.44 £60.78
90th Percentile £47.50 £64.73 £74.10
England median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Computing

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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Computing

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 15 September 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 +7 7 £625 +56.25% 9
Thames Valley +3 7 £625 +34.41% 10
Hampshire +19 4 £426 - 8
Surrey +5 2 £550 -18.52% 3
West Sussex +2 2 £285 -28.75%
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 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (13.33%) JBoss
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) dbt
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (26.67%) Tableau
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) IntelliJ
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Vite
2 2 (13.33%) webpack
3 1 (6.67%) MSI
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Banking
6 1 (6.67%) French Language
6 1 (6.67%) German Language
6 1 (6.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) React
2 2 (13.33%) Redux
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Data Modelling
3 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Data Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (46.67%) ETL
3 7 (46.67%) Validation
3 7 (46.67%) Visualisation
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Data Transformation
5 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (26.67%) WFM
5 4 (26.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) Scala
5 2 (13.33%) Go
5 2 (13.33%) Ruby
6 1 (6.67%) C#
6 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (26.67%) Master's Degree
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk