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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 163 164
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 25 52 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.92% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 2.70% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 44 78
10th Percentile £330 £342 £289
25th Percentile £476 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £705 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £754 £679
England median daily rate £600 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.25 £78.00 £81.25
% change year-on-year -40.71% -4.00% +35.42%

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 1,624 1,926 2,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.23% 34.01% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,308 1,650
10th Percentile £210 £205 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 93 117
10th Percentile £11.79 £17.82 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £49.18
90th Percentile £75.16 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 2024. 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 -4 11 £490 -18.33% 5
Berkshire -24 8 £488 -5.80% 3
Hampshire -12 7 £598 +14.35% 6
Surrey +13 5 £700 +64.71%
Buckinghamshire - 3 £490 - 2
West Sussex +3 2 £193 -73.53% 2
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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 19 (76.00%) Azure
2 15 (60.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) PaaS
4 5 (20.00%) IaaS
4 5 (20.00%) SaaS
5 4 (16.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (12.00%) Azure API Management
6 3 (12.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (12.00%) Datadog
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.00%) Cloudflare
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) Route 53
8 1 (4.00%) Serverless
8 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) VPN
2 4 (16.00%) WAN
3 3 (12.00%) BGP
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (12.00%) IOS XR
3 3 (12.00%) MPLS
3 3 (12.00%) Network Security
4 2 (8.00%) Firewall
4 2 (8.00%) LAN
4 2 (8.00%) SSL
5 1 (4.00%) DNS
5 1 (4.00%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (4.00%) PBX
5 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.00%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) JMeter
3 2 (8.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Automotive
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Architect
1 5 (20.00%) Azure Architect
1 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DBA
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) SAP FI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) .NET
1 5 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (12.00%) Django
2 3 (12.00%) JSON
2 3 (12.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) Web Services
2 3 (12.00%) YANG
3 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) Middleware
4 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) LDAP
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (20.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (8.00%) PKI
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Windows
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 9 (36.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) High Availability
3 8 (32.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (32.00%) Open Source
3 8 (32.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (24.00%) BDD
4 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (24.00%) Network Architecture
5 5 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.00%) API Management
6 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
6 4 (16.00%) Microservices
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Network Management
7 3 (12.00%) Security Architecture
7 3 (12.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) Java
3 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 6 (24.00%) Ruby
4 4 (16.00%) C
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) C++
5 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.00%) Perl
5 3 (12.00%) PHP
5 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.00%) CCIE
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (8.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (32.00%) Ansible
3 6 (24.00%) Terraform
4 4 (16.00%) Nagios
5 3 (12.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (12.00%) Puppet
5 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (4.00%) Grafana
6 1 (4.00%) Graylog
6 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) VMware
2 5 (20.00%) Cisco
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) Splunk
4 3 (12.00%) New Relic
4 3 (12.00%) SAP
4 3 (12.00%) TOWER Software
5 2 (8.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (8.00%) Databricks
5 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle
5 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.00%) Citrix
6 1 (4.00%) F5
6 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto