Cloud Computing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 237 307 308
Rank change year-on-year +70 +1 +49
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 99 92 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.44% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 1.69% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 63 122
10th Percentile £324 £223 £425
25th Percentile £431 £434 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £558 £675 £650
90th Percentile £678 - £725
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £16.70 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -1.32% -8.43%
75th Percentile £19.50 £36.63 £42.13
90th Percentile - £67.45 £54.22
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £18.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year +36.00% -1.32% -13.64%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +46 37 £500 -13.98% 29
North of England +23 31 £475 +5.56% 78
North West +15 16 £466 +3.56% 47
Yorkshire +14 12 £600 +33.33% 24
South East +41 9 £450 +100.00% 100
Midlands +29 9 £367 +33.45% 34
East Midlands - 7 £367 - 9
South West +18 5 £550 -15.38% 47
Wales +2 5 £290 +218.68% 6
East of England +24 3 £751 +30.61% 48
North East 0 3 £358 - 8
West Midlands +14 2 - - 21
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (8.08%) Confluence
2 6 (6.06%) NetWeaver
3 5 (5.05%) Apache
3 5 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.01%) CMS
5 1 (1.01%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.01%) SAS
5 1 (1.01%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.01%) Maximo
2 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (47.47%) Azure
2 29 (29.29%) AWS
3 15 (15.15%) Amazon S3
4 12 (12.12%) GCP
5 11 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 7 (7.07%) GitHub
6 7 (7.07%) Slack
7 6 (6.06%) Cohesity
8 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.05%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.05%) Serverless
9 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (3.03%) IaaS
10 3 (3.03%) PaaS
10 3 (3.03%) SaaS
11 2 (2.02%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.11%) NAS
1 11 (11.11%) SAN
2 9 (9.09%) HTTP
2 9 (9.09%) Network Security
3 5 (5.05%) Firewall
4 4 (4.04%) SD-WAN
4 4 (4.04%) Wireless
5 3 (3.03%) BGP
5 3 (3.03%) IPsec
5 3 (3.03%) OSPF
5 3 (3.03%) VPN
6 2 (2.02%) 802.11
6 2 (2.02%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (2.02%) DNS
6 2 (2.02%) HSRP
6 2 (2.02%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.02%) WAN
7 1 (1.01%) 5G
7 1 (1.01%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (1.01%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) Apache Cassandra
1 7 (7.07%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (7.07%) MongoDB
1 7 (7.07%) MySQL
1 7 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.06%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.05%) Flink
3 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.03%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (18.18%) Git
2 14 (14.14%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.10%) JIRA
4 7 (7.07%) Cucumber
4 7 (7.07%) Jasmine
4 7 (7.07%) JUnit
5 3 (3.03%) ERwin
6 2 (2.02%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.02%) NetBeans
6 2 (2.02%) Postman
7 1 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (52.53%) Social Skills
2 29 (29.29%) Finance
3 26 (26.26%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.14%) Banking
5 10 (10.10%) Investment Banking
5 10 (10.10%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Games
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Retail
9 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (19.19%) Architect
1 19 (19.19%) Developer
2 14 (14.14%) Senior
3 11 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 10 (10.10%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (8.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (8.08%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.08%) JavaScript Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.06%) Integration Developer
7 6 (6.06%) SAP Developer
7 6 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.05%) Network Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Lead
9 4 (4.04%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Architect
10 3 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.09%) Middleware
1 9 (9.09%) RESTful
2 8 (8.08%) OpenAPI
2 8 (8.08%) Swagger
3 7 (7.07%) REST
3 7 (7.07%) Spring
3 7 (7.07%) Spring Boot
3 7 (7.07%) Spring Security
4 6 (6.06%) EDI
4 6 (6.06%) IDoc
4 6 (6.06%) JDBC
4 6 (6.06%) JMS
4 6 (6.06%) SAP PI
4 6 (6.06%) SOAP
4 6 (6.06%) Spring Batch
4 6 (6.06%) XML
4 6 (6.06%) XSLT
5 3 (3.03%) Web Services
6 2 (2.02%) POSIX
6 2 (2.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (13.13%) Management Information System
3 9 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.07%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (6.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (6.06%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (6.06%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.03%) Replication
7 3 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.02%) IoT
8 2 (2.02%) PKI
8 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.01%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.20%) Windows
2 16 (16.16%) Linux
3 15 (15.15%) Windows Server
4 11 (11.11%) Unix
5 10 (10.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.01%) VMS
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.43%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (26.26%) CI/CD
3 24 (24.24%) Agile
4 23 (23.23%) Data Protection
5 22 (22.22%) Data Security
5 22 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 19 (19.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (19.19%) DevOps
7 18 (18.18%) Machine Learning
8 16 (16.16%) Data Science
8 16 (16.16%) Task Automation
9 15 (15.15%) Community of Practice
9 15 (15.15%) Software Engineering
10 13 (13.13%) Critical Thinking
10 13 (13.13%) Data Modelling
10 13 (13.13%) Risk Management
11 12 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (11.11%) Computer Science
12 11 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
12 11 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (40.40%) Python
2 30 (30.30%) Java
3 24 (24.24%) SQL
4 14 (14.14%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.07%) Bash
6 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.06%) ABAP
8 5 (5.05%) Bicep
9 2 (2.02%) C
9 2 (2.02%) C#
9 2 (2.02%) C++
9 2 (2.02%) Scala
10 1 (1.01%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Degree
2 16 (16.16%) Security Cleared
3 12 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.07%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.04%) CCNP
6 4 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.03%) CISSP
8 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.01%) CCSK
9 1 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.01%) PMP
9 1 (1.01%) SANS
9 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.08%) Data Quality
1 8 (8.08%) GDPR
2 5 (5.05%) QA
3 3 (3.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.03%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.02%) MISRA
4 2 (2.02%) MISRA C
5 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.01%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.01%) NIST
5 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (11.11%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.04%) vSphere
4 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (23.23%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.11%) NetBackup
2 11 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (7.07%) Terraform
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.03%) Puppet
5 2 (2.02%) Cacti
5 2 (2.02%) CASB
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.01%) SCCM
6 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.12%) Veritas
3 9 (9.09%) VMware
4 7 (7.07%) Google
4 7 (7.07%) SAP
5 4 (4.04%) Databricks
6 3 (3.03%) Cisco
6 3 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.02%) Forcepoint
7 2 (2.02%) QNX
7 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.02%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.01%) ADVA
8 1 (1.01%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (1.01%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.01%) Netskope
8 1 (1.01%) Perforce
8 1 (1.01%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.01%) Splunk
8 1 (1.01%) Symantec