Cloudability Contract Job Trends in the South East

Apptio Cloudability
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Cloudability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloudability 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.015% - -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £550 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% +22.91%

All Business Application Skills
South East

Cloudability falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 484 289 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.30% 8.19% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 169 170
10th Percentile £419 £350 £309
25th Percentile £493 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £582
Median % change year-on-year - -5.54% +10.90%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £692
90th Percentile £733 £723 £765
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 3 27
10th Percentile £16.50 £34.05 £24.72
25th Percentile £30.66 £36.66 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £41.00 £48.18
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -14.90% +28.91%
75th Percentile £81.75 £44.86 £61.60
90th Percentile £108.28 £47.17 £65.40
England median hourly rate £40.00 £44.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -10.61% -0.56% -20.34%

Cloudability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Cloudability job vacancy trend in the South East

Cloudability
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Cloudability
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 Cloudability within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Thames Valley - 1 - - 1
Cloudability
England

Cloudability
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes