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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 151 186
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 -4
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 27 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.62% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 1.64% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 16
10th Percentile - £384 £214
25th Percentile £475 £386 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -8.60% -21.85%
75th Percentile £659 £772 £678
90th Percentile £688 £800 £819
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £19.43 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £20.81 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.81 -
90th Percentile - £28.28 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +82.69% +44.44% -63.45%

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 1,353 1,161 1,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.95% 31.61% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 790 1,006
10th Percentile £213 £261 £206
25th Percentile £363 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 17 32
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.10 £17.05
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £19.63
Median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%
75th Percentile £48.75 £43.75 £55.78
90th Percentile £94.10 £64.73 £79.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -8.62% +19.32% +8.02%

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 22 December 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 22 December 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 +4 20 £500 - 12
Berkshire -17 5 - - 10
Thames Valley -28 5 - - 18
Surrey - 2 £550 - 6
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 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Amazon ECR
2 7 (25.93%) GitHub
3 4 (14.81%) dbt
3 4 (14.81%) GCP
3 4 (14.81%) OpenShift
3 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Apple Pay
4 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) Google Pay
5 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) DMZ
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Tableau
2 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.81%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Artifactory
1 7 (25.93%) GitLab
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) Vite
3 2 (7.41%) webpack
4 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.70%) Gatling
4 1 (3.70%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) Gradle
4 1 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 17 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) French Language
5 1 (3.70%) German Language
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Capability Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Migration Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Telecoms Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Security Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (18.52%) JSON
2 5 (18.52%) XML
2 5 (18.52%) YAML
3 2 (7.41%) Node.js
3 2 (7.41%) React
3 2 (7.41%) Redux
3 2 (7.41%) RESTful
4 1 (3.70%) JPA
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) Spring
4 1 (3.70%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) DevOps
2 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) Immutable Infrastructure
3 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
6 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (14.81%) Data Transformation
6 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.81%) ETL
6 4 (14.81%) Fintech
6 4 (14.81%) Validation
6 4 (14.81%) Visualisation
6 4 (14.81%) WFM
6 4 (14.81%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Go
3 2 (7.41%) Ruby
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 12 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
3 4 (14.81%) Master's Degree
3 4 (14.81%) OCP
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (11.11%) PgMP
4 3 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 3 (11.11%) PMP
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) GRC
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (3.70%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.70%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Grafana
2 7 (25.93%) Prometheus
2 7 (25.93%) Sysdig
2 7 (25.93%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Red Hat
2 3 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) Samsung
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft