Public Cloud Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 164 166
Rank change year-on-year +22 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 15 34 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.60% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 2.07% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 41
10th Percentile £350 £345 £400
25th Percentile £544 £490 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +12.94%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £700
90th Percentile - £750 £755
England median daily rate £613 £575 £638
% change year-on-year +6.52% -9.80% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £46.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +24.32% -40.71% -4.00%

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 1,040 1,642 1,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.25% 28.75% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 962 1,319
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £350 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £594 £618 £629
90th Percentile £660 £690 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 173 97
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.79 £16.94
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.64 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.39% +4.76% +153.68%
75th Percentile £61.12 £61.30 £66.21
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the South East

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the South East

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the South East

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the South East

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 3 July 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 +33 9 £688 +15.06% 33
Surrey +25 3 £350 -50.00% 16
Thames Valley +11 2 £525 +5.53% 62
Buckinghamshire -1 2 £525 +6.06% 10
East Sussex - 1 - - 5
Public Cloud
England

Public 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
1 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) SAP CO
2 1 (6.67%) SAP FI
2 1 (6.67%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (6.67%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 4 (26.67%) Cloudflare
5 1 (6.67%) Akamai
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (6.67%) Datadog
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) WAN
2 4 (26.67%) LAN
2 4 (26.67%) MPLS
2 4 (26.67%) VPN
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.67%) NAS
5 1 (6.67%) SAN
5 1 (6.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Korean Language
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Operations Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Data Migration Lead
5 1 (6.67%) SAP FI Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Web Hosting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Middleware
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) LAMP
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 5 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 5 (33.33%) Network Design
2 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 5 (33.33%) Service Design
3 4 (26.67%) API Management
3 4 (26.67%) Application Packaging
3 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (26.67%) Business Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) IT Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) Zero Trust
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
6 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) PHP
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CCIE
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Cisco
1 5 (33.33%) F5
2 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
2 4 (26.67%) Citrix
2 4 (26.67%) Fortinet
2 4 (26.67%) MuleSoft
2 4 (26.67%) Zscaler
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Isilon
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) NetApp
4 1 (6.67%) Veeam
4 1 (6.67%) VMware