Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in the South East

Private Cloud
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 166 190
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 +39
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 24 3 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.55% 0.080% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 0.25% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 16
10th Percentile £475 £630 £613
25th Percentile £500 £638 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% -1.89% +55.88%
75th Percentile £618 £688 £675
90th Percentile £619 £695 -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -12.00%

All Generic Skills
South East

Private Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,319 1,195 1,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.32% 31.84% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 877 699 980
10th Percentile £204 £239 £205
25th Percentile £363 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £680 £700 £694
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 49 94
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.33 £19.12
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.18 £24.57
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -33.96% +60.61%
75th Percentile £68.18 £57.50 £63.29
90th Percentile £80.90 £71.38 £77.85
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the South East

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the South East over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the South East

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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 - 20 £525 - 7
Berkshire -7 4 £590 -15.71%
Thames Valley -8 4 £590 -12.59%
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP CO
1 1 (4.17%) SAP FI
1 1 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
1 10 (41.67%) OpenShift
2 8 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (4.17%) Finance
1 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (4.17%) Retail
1 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
1 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IP Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.17%) SAP CO Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Middleware
1 7 (29.17%) React
2 2 (8.33%) OAuth
2 2 (8.33%) SAML
3 1 (4.17%) LDAP
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) Migration
3 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (37.50%) High Availability
5 7 (29.17%) Configuration Management
5 7 (29.17%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.83%) Open Source
8 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (8.33%) Design Patterns
10 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
10 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (8.33%) Task Automation
11 1 (4.17%) Application Virtualisation
11 1 (4.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 1 (4.17%) Network Segmentation
11 1 (4.17%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) PowerShell
2 12 (50.00%) Python
3 9 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 8 (33.33%) SQL
5 7 (29.17%) C#
5 7 (29.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (79.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CCIE
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.33%) UAG
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Ansible
2 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.50%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (8.33%) Grafana
4 2 (8.33%) Kibana
4 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.17%) Rundeck
5 1 (4.17%) vRealize
5 1 (4.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 8 (33.33%) VMware
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) NetIQ
4 1 (4.17%) Ariba
4 1 (4.17%) SAP