Cloud Computing Contracts in the South West

Cloud Computing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 128 101
Rank change year-on-year +13 -27 +50
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 6 32 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.33% 0.98% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 3.85% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 29 50
10th Percentile £388 £593 £425
25th Percentile £425 £625 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £594
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.52% +26.34%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £694
90th Percentile £604 - -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.95
25th Percentile - - £23.63
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £39.13
90th Percentile - - £45.65
England median hourly rate - £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.64%

All Cloud 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 556 832 1,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.32% 25.49% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 594 868
10th Percentile £225 £222 £313
25th Percentile £355 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £669
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 50 65
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.74 £13.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +40.00% +140.96%
75th Percentile £30.88 - £75.50
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

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 6 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
Bristol +13 4 £550 -4.35% 15
Wiltshire +7 1 - - 2
Gloucestershire - 1 £450 - 20
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Server Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Epics
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Minimum Viable Product
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas