Public Cloud Contracts in the Thames Valley

Public Cloud
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud 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 89 132 129
Rank change year-on-year +43 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 13 13 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 0.48% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 1.62% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 18
10th Percentile £558 £338 £310
25th Percentile £588 £480 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +1.45% -13.03%
75th Percentile £743 £643 £697
90th Percentile - £649 £716
South East median daily rate £615 £595 £495
% change year-on-year +3.36% +20.20% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £38.50 -
% change year-on-year +81.82% - -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Public 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the Thames Valley

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the Thames Valley

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the Thames Valley

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the Thames Valley

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud 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
Buckinghamshire +22 11 £653 +3.94% 7
Berkshire +25 2 £550 +7.32% 11
Public Cloud
South East

Public Cloud
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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP CO
1 1 (7.69%) SAP FI
1 1 (7.69%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (7.69%) SAP PM
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 11 (84.62%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) BGP
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (38.46%) MPLS
1 5 (38.46%) NGFW
1 5 (38.46%) OSPF
1 5 (38.46%) SD-WAN
1 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
1 5 (38.46%) VPN
1 5 (38.46%) WAN
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) VLAN
2 4 (30.77%) VSAN
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) HBase
1 1 (7.69%) HDInsight
1 1 (7.69%) Impala
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Principal Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Technical Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) SAP CO Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) SAP FI Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) TOGAF
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (61.54%) IT Strategy
3 8 (61.54%) Technology Strategy
4 7 (53.85%) ITIL
4 7 (53.85%) Microservices
5 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
5 6 (46.15%) Continuous Delivery
5 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (46.15%) DevOps
5 6 (46.15%) DevSecOps
5 6 (46.15%) Zachman Framework
6 5 (38.46%) Agile
6 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (38.46%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (38.46%) User Experience
7 4 (30.77%) Prototyping
8 3 (23.08%) Adaptive Security
8 3 (23.08%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C#
1 1 (7.69%) Perl
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 7 (53.85%) MCSE
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (38.46%) CCNP
4 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) NCSC
1 8 (61.54%) NIST
2 4 (30.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (46.15%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Flume
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) StreamSets