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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 156 167
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 22 23 38
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.61% 0.54% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 1.92% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 27
10th Percentile £324 £369 £269
25th Percentile £414 £385 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £400 £481
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% -16.76% -12.63%
75th Percentile £675 £744 £719
90th Percentile £688 £800 £825
England median daily rate £500 £556 £575
% change year-on-year -10.11% -3.26% +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% -15.56%
75th Percentile - £26.81 £19.50
90th Percentile - £28.28 -
England median hourly rate £15.50 £23.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.74% +25.00% -3.80%

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 1,167 1,199 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.30% 27.96% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 814 1,112
10th Percentile £204 £263 £206
25th Percentile £351 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +3.96%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £651 £663 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 22 49
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.45 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.44 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% +75.93% +28.57%
75th Percentile £27.50 £60.95 £51.58
90th Percentile £40.65 £64.73 £72.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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 15 October 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 October 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 +18 12 £504 - 6
Berkshire +3 6 £625 +56.25% 6
Thames Valley -4 6 £625 +56.25% 7
Surrey +7 2 £550 +18.89% 1
West Sussex -3 2 £285 -28.75% 1
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 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) dbt
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
2 4 (18.18%) GitHub
2 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (9.09%) Apple Pay
4 2 (9.09%) Google Pay
5 1 (4.55%) Azure
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (31.82%) Tableau
2 4 (18.18%) Power BI
2 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) IntelliJ
2 2 (9.09%) JUnit
2 2 (9.09%) Vite
2 2 (9.09%) webpack
3 1 (4.55%) MSI
General
1 15 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 3 (13.64%) Finance
6 2 (9.09%) Banking
7 1 (4.55%) French Language
7 1 (4.55%) German Language
7 1 (4.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Capability Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Migration Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Architect
4 1 (4.55%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.09%) Node.js
2 2 (9.09%) React
2 2 (9.09%) Redux
2 2 (9.09%) RESTful
2 2 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 7 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (31.82%) Data Engineering
4 7 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) ETL
4 7 (31.82%) Validation
4 7 (31.82%) Visualisation
5 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (22.73%) Microservices
6 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (18.18%) Analytics
6 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 4 (18.18%) Data Transformation
6 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 4 (18.18%) WFM
6 4 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) Scala
5 2 (9.09%) Go
5 2 (9.09%) Ruby
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Master's Degree
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) OCP
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (13.64%) PgMP
3 3 (13.64%) PMI Certification
3 3 (13.64%) PMP
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Grafana
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.09%) Sysdig
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Google
1 3 (13.64%) Samsung
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk