Private Cloud Contracts 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 179 200
Rank change year-on-year +38 +21 +50
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 22 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 0.56% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 8
10th Percentile £418 £574 £425
25th Percentile £463 £584 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £656 £523
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +25.60% +4.50%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £569
90th Percentile £619 £679 £631
England median daily rate £599 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +11.92% -2.73% -6.38%

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 1,122 1,432 1,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.88% 29.11% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 847 1,247
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £669 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 144 95
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £21.99 £19.00
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +14.70% +122.22%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £65.36
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.75 £48.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year -36.92% +16.07% +61.54%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the South East over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in the South East

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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 14 August 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 +28 17 £573 -4.18% 3
Thames Valley +10 5 £475 -29.63% 4
Berkshire +8 4 £431 -36.11% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 - 1
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 14 (63.64%) OpenShift
3 12 (54.55%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 2 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.55%) MPLS
2 1 (4.55%) NAS
2 1 (4.55%) SAN
2 1 (4.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Retail
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Product Owner
6 1 (4.55%) Programme Manager
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Implementation Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) Middleware
1 11 (50.00%) React
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) SAML
2 1 (4.55%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Migration
2 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (63.64%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 10 (45.45%) High Availability
5 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 6 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (22.73%) Open Source
7 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (9.09%) Identity Management
7 2 (9.09%) Network Architecture
7 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
8 1 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (4.55%) Customer Engagement
8 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
8 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
8 1 (4.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) PowerShell
2 14 (63.64%) Python
3 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 12 (54.55%) SQL
4 11 (50.00%) C#
4 11 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (68.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) UAG
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Ansible
2 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Kibana
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) VMware
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Dell
5 1 (4.55%) F5
5 1 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) Isilon
5 1 (4.55%) NetApp
5 1 (4.55%) NetIQ
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (4.55%) Veeam