Cloud Computing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cloud Computing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 136 137
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 9 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.19% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 12
10th Percentile £318 £111 £481
25th Percentile £325 £121 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £124 £551
Median % change year-on-year +262.90% -77.51% +10.25%
75th Percentile £475 £473 £613
90th Percentile £550 £549 £680
South East median daily rate £450 £225 £569
% change year-on-year +100.00% -60.49% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.93
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year - -27.62% +0.96%
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £30.56
90th Percentile - - £32.78
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year - -27.62% +0.96%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the Thames Valley

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the Thames Valley

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the Thames Valley

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the Thames Valley

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +35 9 £450 +262.90% 17
Cloud Computing
South East

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) ADSL
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) DSL
3 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
3 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) MPLS
3 1 (11.11%) OSPF
3 1 (11.11%) PPP
3 1 (11.11%) RIP
3 1 (11.11%) SNMP
3 1 (11.11%) TACACS
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Network Support
3 1 (11.11%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) SIEM
5 1 (11.11%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bicep
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) CCDP
2 1 (11.11%) CCIP
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) CCSK
2 1 (11.11%) CEH
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (11.11%) GIAC
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SANS
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ADVA
2 1 (11.11%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 1 (11.11%) Forcepoint
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) VMware