Cloud Computing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cloud Computing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 137 152
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -37
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 9 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.34% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.52% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 6
10th Percentile £111 £481 £463
25th Percentile £121 £505 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £124 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -77.51% +10.25% -3.61%
75th Percentile £473 £613 £528
90th Percentile £549 £680 £594
South East median daily rate £300 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -46.67% +12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% +33.33%
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -26.92% +33.33%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 731 856 1,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.40% 29.54% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 617 845
10th Percentile £271 £317 £181
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 18
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.25 £12.57
25th Percentile £19.37 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% +18.91% -0.12%
75th Percentile £59.95 £57.50 £25.81
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £71.37
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.08 £21.05
% change year-on-year +0.61% +9.62% -2.21%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
Berkshire -12 5 £124 -79.12% 7
Oxfordshire - 3 £533 - 2
Buckinghamshire +24 1 - - 4
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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Google Workspace
2 2 (22.22%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
1 3 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (11.11%) ADSL
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
3 1 (11.11%) IPsec
3 1 (11.11%) MPLS
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) OSPF
3 1 (11.11%) PPP
3 1 (11.11%) RIP
3 1 (11.11%) SNMP
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP
3 1 (11.11%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Spinnaker
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) HR Assistant
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
1 1 (11.11%) LangChain
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Data Management
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (22.22%) Server Management
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
3 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
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%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Meraki
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) ADVA
3 1 (11.11%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (11.11%) Informatica
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper