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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 104 112
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 13 4 31
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.36% 0.21% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.71% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 29
10th Percentile £334 £375 £593
25th Percentile £384 £394 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -30.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £475 £541 £675
90th Percentile - £580 -
England median daily rate £538 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +3.61% -13.54% +4.35%

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 989 566 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.53% 29.95% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 396 530
10th Percentile £331 £213 £249
25th Percentile £423 £352 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £611
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 39 43
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £12.97
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £33.00
Median hourly rate £36.25 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.10% -73.04% +87.79%
75th Percentile £58.75 £29.13 -
90th Percentile £95.64 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South West over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the South West

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 8 August 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 -16 9 £425 -11.69% 4
Gloucestershire -9 3 £450 - 3
Devon - 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (7.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) AdminStudio
1 1 (7.69%) InstallShield
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Advertising
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Consultant
2 7 (53.85%) Azure Consultant
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Packager
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) SOC Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Application Packaging
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
2 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Identity Management
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security
3 1 (7.69%) Resource Management
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum
3 1 (7.69%) SIEM
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Validation
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) CCSK
2 1 (7.69%) CEH
2 1 (7.69%) CISA
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CISM
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) CASB
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Tenable