Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in the South West

Cloud Computing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 110 123
Rank change year-on-year -39 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 11 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.41% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.28% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £414 £380 £417
25th Percentile £416 £406 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -34.62% +18.18%
75th Percentile £466 £438 £825
90th Percentile £471 £460 £858
England median daily rate £528 £508 £575
% change year-on-year +3.94% -11.74% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 958 623 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.73% 31.79% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 426 435
10th Percentile £350 £213 £235
25th Percentile £449 £353 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £532
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% -9.87% -3.27%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £631
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 32 43
10th Percentile £14.36 £18.51 £25.26
25th Percentile £16.62 - £33.00
Median hourly rate £20.58 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% -73.04% +112.12%
75th Percentile £54.40 £34.56 -
90th Percentile £83.50 £57.60 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the South West

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. 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
Bristol -10 9 £425 +13.33% 4
Gloucestershire -7 1 £450 +5.88% 5
Devon -12 1 - - 2
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (9.09%) QGIS
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Advertising
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Consultant
2 7 (63.64%) Azure Consultant
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
1 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Agile
2 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (9.09%) Information Security
2 1 (9.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (9.09%) Prototyping
2 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (9.09%) Resource Management
2 1 (9.09%) Runbook
2 1 (9.09%) Security Hardening
2 1 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) CCSK
1 1 (9.09%) CEH
1 1 (9.09%) CISA
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CISM
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Google