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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 99 121
Rank change year-on-year -29 +22 -3
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 3 15 35
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.10% 0.91% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 2.77% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 27
10th Percentile £407 £500 £558
25th Percentile £408 £509 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -39.09% +5.77% +0.78%
75th Percentile £433 £825 £675
90th Percentile £436 £859 -
England median daily rate £525 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +1.69%

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 734 542 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.57% 32.71% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 406 643
10th Percentile £227 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 11 26
10th Percentile £19.02 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £54.00 £18.32 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.98% +82.76% -73.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £28.99 £17.47
90th Percentile £62.70 £68.75 £35.20
England median hourly rate £39.75 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +26.19% -16.00%

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 11 March 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
Gloucestershire -12 2 £419 -20.24% 3
Devon - 1 - - 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Scientific Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (33.33%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Fortran
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow