Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in the South East

Public Cloud
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 121 171
Rank change year-on-year -37 +50 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 10 56 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.28% 1.31% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 4.34% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 41 28
10th Percentile £565 £466 £512
25th Percentile £641 £505 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £575 £642
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -10.37% +7.36%
75th Percentile £734 £738 £713
90th Percentile £775 £769 £757
England median daily rate £550 £553 £575
% change year-on-year -0.45% -3.91% -4.17%

All Generic Skills
South East

Public 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 1,132 1,291 1,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.26% 30.12% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 738 1,179
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £358 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 75 107
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.04 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £23.79
Median hourly rate £27.25 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.45% - +132.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £67.09
90th Percentile £69.91 £75.16 £77.70
England median hourly rate £29.50 £53.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -44.60% +15.31% +79.62%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the South East

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the South East over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the South East

Public Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Public 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 Public Cloud within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Thames Valley -24 4 £638 +21.43% 7
Berkshire +7 3 £750 -0.83% 6
Hampshire -6 3 £688 +5.77% 7
Surrey +2 1 £600 -14.29% 9
West Sussex -4 1 £750 +54.64%
Buckinghamshire -15 1 £525 +2.57%
East Sussex - 1 - -
Public Cloud
England

Public 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 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Akamai
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (10.00%) Datadog
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Architect
4 1 (10.00%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Migration Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 4 (40.00%) Data Security
3 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) SIEM
3 4 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (30.00%) API Management
4 3 (30.00%) Application Security
4 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (30.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (30.00%) CCSP
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (30.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (40.00%) NIST
1 4 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (30.00%) PSD2
3 1 (10.00%) GAMP
3 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Dell
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Isilon
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Veeam
2 1 (10.00%) VMware