Public Cloud Contracts in the South East

Public Cloud
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 171 171
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -14
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 27 47 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.83% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 2.41% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 76
10th Percentile £333 £325 £289
25th Percentile £483 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -
75th Percentile £658 £694 £650
90th Percentile £724 £740 £682
England median daily rate £610 £625 £601
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.08% +14.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 £73.25
% change year-on-year -50.64% +6.48% +24.68%

All Generic Skills
South East

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,538 1,950 2,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.05% 34.25% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 1,327 1,670
10th Percentile £205 £207 £215
25th Percentile £363 £374 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 94 119
10th Percentile £11.71 £18.08 £13.35
25th Percentile £18.35 £19.00 £16.33
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +123.42% -39.41%
75th Percentile £61.30 £66.21 £44.48
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £33.50 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +48.99% -16.66% +1.24%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the South East

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the South East

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the South East

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the South East

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley -1 14 £525 -4.55% 8
Berkshire -24 9 £500 -9.09% 7
Hampshire -2 8 £598 +20.71% 5
Buckinghamshire - 5 £628 - 1
Surrey +14 3 £650 +48.57% 2
West Sussex +4 2 £193 -73.53%
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) Azure
2 19 (70.37%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) PaaS
4 5 (18.52%) IaaS
4 5 (18.52%) SaaS
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (11.11%) Azure API Management
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (11.11%) Datadog
7 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.41%) Cloudflare
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) VPN
2 4 (14.81%) BGP
2 4 (14.81%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (11.11%) IOS XR
3 3 (11.11%) MPLS
3 3 (11.11%) Network Security
3 3 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (7.41%) SSL
4 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (3.70%) DNS
5 1 (3.70%) LAN
5 1 (3.70%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (3.70%) OSPF
5 1 (3.70%) PBX
5 1 (3.70%) VPLS
5 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
2 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) JMeter
3 2 (7.41%) Selenium
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Automotive
3 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Architect
5 2 (7.41%) DBA
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) SAP FI Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) .NET
1 5 (18.52%) RESTful
2 3 (11.11%) Django
2 3 (11.11%) JSON
2 3 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) Web Services
2 3 (11.11%) YANG
3 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
3 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) LDAP
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 5 (18.52%) Private Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.41%) PKI
5 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
1 12 (44.44%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (29.63%) High Availability
3 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
3 8 (29.63%) Open Source
4 6 (22.22%) BDD
4 6 (22.22%) Network Architecture
5 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (18.52%) Data Protection
5 5 (18.52%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Microservices
5 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
6 4 (14.81%) API Management
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
6 4 (14.81%) Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (22.22%) Bash
3 6 (22.22%) Ruby
4 5 (18.52%) SQL
5 4 (14.81%) C
6 3 (11.11%) C#
6 3 (11.11%) C++
6 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (11.11%) Perl
6 3 (11.11%) PHP
6 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (14.81%) CCNP
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) MCSE
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (7.41%) CCIE
5 2 (7.41%) Degree
6 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) NCSC
1 3 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
1 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
2 4 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.41%) vSphere
4 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (33.33%) Ansible
3 7 (25.93%) Terraform
4 5 (18.52%) Nagios
5 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 3 (11.11%) Puppet
5 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (7.41%) Grafana
6 2 (7.41%) Graylog
6 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) VMware
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) Splunk
4 3 (11.11%) New Relic
4 3 (11.11%) SAP
4 3 (11.11%) TOWER Software
5 2 (7.41%) CheckPoint
5 2 (7.41%) F5
5 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle
5 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.41%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.70%) Citrix
6 1 (3.70%) QinetiQ