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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 161 179
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 26 20 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.67% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.62% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 22
10th Percentile £301 £355 £229
25th Percentile £414 £385 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £506
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.99% -11.96%
75th Percentile £616 £763 £759
90th Percentile £688 £800 £856
England median daily rate £500 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -13.04% -2.13% +3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £27.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -17.39%
75th Percentile - £29.25 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.50 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -45.61% +50.00% -61.42%

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 1,220 1,232 1,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.52% 29.55% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 836 1,086
10th Percentile £204 £262 £213
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £663 £663 £695
England median daily rate £500 £535 £528
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.33% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 22 43
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.45 £18.59
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.44 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% +72.73% +32.72%
75th Percentile £27.88 £60.95 £57.81
90th Percentile £42.02 £64.73 £71.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend 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 7 November 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 7 November 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
Hampshire +9 16 £500 - 8
Berkshire 0 6 £625 +56.25% 32
Thames Valley -14 6 £625 +56.25% 35
Surrey +3 2 £550 +18.89% 5
West Sussex - 2 £285 - 3
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.69%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) GitHub
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (15.38%) dbt
4 4 (15.38%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Apple Pay
6 2 (7.69%) Google Pay
7 1 (3.85%) Azure
7 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
1 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (26.92%) Tableau
2 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
3 4 (15.38%) Power BI
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Artifactory
1 5 (19.23%) GitLab
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) IntelliJ
4 2 (7.69%) JUnit
4 2 (7.69%) Vite
4 2 (7.69%) webpack
5 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.85%) Gatling
5 1 (3.85%) Gradle
5 1 (3.85%) MSI
General
1 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.69%) Banking
6 1 (3.85%) French Language
6 1 (3.85%) German Language
6 1 (3.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Capability Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Migration Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) React
3 2 (7.69%) Redux
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) JPA
4 1 (3.85%) Middleware
4 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (38.46%) DevOps
4 8 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (26.92%) Data Engineering
5 7 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (26.92%) ETL
5 7 (26.92%) Validation
5 7 (26.92%) Visualisation
6 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (19.23%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 5 (19.23%) Microservices
7 4 (15.38%) Analytics
7 4 (15.38%) Data Integration
7 4 (15.38%) Data Transformation
7 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 4 (15.38%) WFM
7 4 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) Scala
5 2 (7.69%) Go
5 2 (7.69%) Ruby
6 1 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 4 (15.38%) OCP
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.54%) PgMP
4 3 (11.54%) PMI Certification
4 3 (11.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Grafana
2 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
2 5 (19.23%) Sysdig
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Google
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
1 3 (11.54%) Samsung
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.69%) Splunk