Enterprise Cloud Contract Job Trends in the South West

Enterprise Cloud
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.14% - 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £500
75th Percentile £609 - -
90th Percentile £626 - -
England median daily rate £550 £514 £500
% change year-on-year +7.06% +2.75% -19.19%

All Generic Skills
South West

Enterprise Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 925 606 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.06% 31.86% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 372 533
10th Percentile £313 £237 £313
25th Percentile £413 £387 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 47 131
10th Percentile £14.06 £6.00 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.94 £44.38
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -73.04% -2.08%
75th Percentile £68.75 £36.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -33.68% +11.76%

Enterprise Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Enterprise Cloud job vacancy trend in the South West

Enterprise Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Enterprise Cloud
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 Enterprise Cloud within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 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 - 3 £613 - 2
Gloucestershire - 2 £513 -
Enterprise Cloud
England

Enterprise Cloud
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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) AI
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) LLM
2 1 (20.00%) SOAR
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft