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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 135 114
Rank change year-on-year +24 -21 +25
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 6 8 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.31% 0.30% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.13% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 29
10th Percentile £373 £469 £443
25th Percentile £388 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £456 £596 -
90th Percentile £468 £599 £600
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.73
25th Percentile - - £23.06
Median hourly rate - - £25.75
75th Percentile - - £28.06
90th Percentile - - £28.18
England median hourly rate £15.50 £23.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.74% +25.00% +8.57%

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 601 708 988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.71% 26.70% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 463 761
10th Percentile £213 £234 £300
25th Percentile £350 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £650
90th Percentile £694 £685 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 42 55
10th Percentile £18.13 £25.73 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.60 £33.50 £18.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £34.80
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +101.18% +58.16%
75th Percentile £34.31 - £78.00
90th Percentile £37.05 - £79.20
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

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
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 20 September 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
Gloucestershire +15 3 £438 +2.94% 2
Wiltshire +10 1 - - 1
Devon +9 1 - - 1
Bristol +5 1 £375 -34.78% 2
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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Network Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Scientific Software Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Fortran
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix