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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 178 182
Rank change year-on-year +54 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 35 27 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.16% 0.49% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.47% 1.71% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 24 33
10th Percentile £525 £333 £325
25th Percentile £558 £484 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £595 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% +20.20% -8.33%
75th Percentile £694 £658 £688
90th Percentile £743 £724 £723
England median daily rate £618 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +2.92% -4.00% +2.04%
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 £56.50 £38.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year +46.75% -49.01% +13.53%

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 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +34 17 £600 +0.84% 5
Thames Valley +43 13 £630 +20.00% 10
Buckinghamshire +22 11 £653 +3.94% 3
Surrey +18 4 £350 -46.15% 4
Berkshire +25 2 £550 +7.32% 6
East Sussex - 1 - -
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 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) IIS
1 2 (5.71%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.86%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.86%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.86%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) Azure
2 18 (51.43%) AWS
3 11 (31.43%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (22.86%) SaaS
5 7 (20.00%) OpenShift
6 4 (11.43%) Cloudflare
7 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.71%) Datadog
8 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.71%) GCP
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.86%) Pulumi
9 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) WAN
2 9 (25.71%) MPLS
2 9 (25.71%) VPN
3 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (14.29%) BGP
4 5 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (14.29%) Firewall
4 5 (14.29%) NGFW
4 5 (14.29%) OSPF
4 5 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 4 (11.43%) DNS
5 4 (11.43%) VLAN
5 4 (11.43%) VSAN
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (8.57%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MySQL
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.86%) Big Data
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.86%) HBase
2 1 (2.86%) HDInsight
2 1 (2.86%) Impala
2 1 (2.86%) Metadata
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Korean Language
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Architect
2 10 (28.57%) Senior
3 9 (25.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (22.86%) Technical Architect
5 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) IT Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Network Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Principal Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Technical Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) IT Support
8 2 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Middleware
1 3 (8.57%) Node.js
2 2 (5.71%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) Angular 2
2 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.71%) CSS
2 2 (5.71%) HTML
2 2 (5.71%) HTML5
2 2 (5.71%) LAMP
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (45.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) PKI
2 3 (8.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Linux
1 13 (37.14%) Windows
2 7 (20.00%) CentOS
2 7 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (37.14%) DevSecOps
4 11 (31.43%) IT Strategy
5 10 (28.57%) DevOps
5 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (28.57%) TOGAF
6 9 (25.71%) Application Packaging
6 9 (25.71%) Technology Strategy
7 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
8 7 (20.00%) Change Control
8 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (20.00%) ITIL
8 7 (20.00%) Microservices
9 6 (17.14%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (17.14%) Migration
9 6 (17.14%) Zachman Framework
10 5 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
10 5 (14.29%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 9 (25.71%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) C#
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) PHP
4 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (20.00%) MCSE
4 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (14.29%) CCNP
6 4 (11.43%) CCIE
7 3 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
8 2 (5.71%) Degree
9 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
9 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) NCSC
1 8 (22.86%) NIST
2 4 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (20.00%) vSphere
3 6 (17.14%) VMware NSX
4 3 (8.57%) Docker
5 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Flume
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Ansible
2 11 (31.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (31.43%) Terraform
3 7 (20.00%) Nessus
3 7 (20.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) VMware
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 10 (28.57%) Cisco
4 7 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (17.14%) Palo Alto
6 4 (11.43%) CheckPoint
6 4 (11.43%) Citrix
6 4 (11.43%) F5
6 4 (11.43%) Fortinet
6 4 (11.43%) Zscaler
7 3 (8.57%) Google
8 2 (5.71%) Databricks
8 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
9 1 (2.86%) PagerDuty
9 1 (2.86%) SAP
9 1 (2.86%) StreamSets