Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 246 286
Rank change year-on-year -70 +40 +48
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 77 112 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.75% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.39% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 61 76
10th Percentile £370 £356 £250
25th Percentile £413 £386 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £575
90th Percentile £688 £800 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £39.97 - -
25th Percentile £44.93 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £20.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.92% +15.28% -63.45%
75th Percentile £48.75 £25.13 £19.31
90th Percentile - £27.60 £19.43
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £24.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +97.92% +33.33% -48.57%

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 5,852 4,679 6,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.23% 31.21% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,043 3,070 4,423
10th Percentile £240 £238 £220
25th Percentile £379 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 109 191
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.44 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +26.19% +7.69%
75th Percentile £52.06 £42.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Computing

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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Computing

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 19 December 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
South East -15 27 £525 +23.53% 18
Midlands -38 17 £440 -23.48% 12
West Midlands -32 13 £435 -24.35% 3
North of England -66 13 £450 -0.88% 8
North West -36 9 £430 -9.76% 2
Scotland -20 8 £500 -9.09% 7
East of England -14 7 £413 - 5
South West -17 5 £425 -41.38% 4
East Midlands -16 4 £460 -8.55% 9
North East -7 2 £488 +36.17% 3
Yorkshire -47 2 £513 +1.99% 3
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.39%) Apache
1 8 (10.39%) JBoss
1 8 (10.39%) WebLogic
2 5 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.49%) OpenStack
3 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Weka
2 4 (5.19%) Revit
3 3 (3.90%) Navisworks
4 2 (2.60%) ProjectWise
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 45 (58.44%) AWS
2 25 (32.47%) Azure
3 14 (18.18%) GCP
4 12 (15.58%) GitHub
5 7 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
6 5 (6.49%) dbt
6 5 (6.49%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.49%) Serverless
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.19%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.90%) SaaS
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.60%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.60%) Network Security
2 2 (2.60%) VPN
2 2 (2.60%) WAN
3 1 (1.30%) DMZ
3 1 (1.30%) DNS
3 1 (1.30%) Firewall
3 1 (1.30%) HTTP
3 1 (1.30%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) Relational Database
2 8 (10.39%) MongoDB
2 8 (10.39%) Tableau
3 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.49%) Power BI
5 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.60%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.60%) MySQL
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Git
1 11 (14.29%) GitLab
2 8 (10.39%) Eclipse
2 8 (10.39%) IntelliJ
2 8 (10.39%) JUnit
2 8 (10.39%) Selenium
3 7 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 5 (6.49%) JIRA
5 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.60%) Postman
6 2 (2.60%) Vite
6 2 (2.60%) webpack
7 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.30%) Gatling
7 1 (1.30%) Gradle
General
1 44 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.60%) Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Retail
8 1 (1.30%) Electronics
8 1 (1.30%) French Language
8 1 (1.30%) German Language
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (12.99%) Developer
2 9 (11.69%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (10.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Software Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Architect
4 5 (6.49%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) Java Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Capability Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Java Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Migration Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Senior
6 3 (3.90%) Telecoms Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
7 2 (2.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.18%) JSON
1 14 (18.18%) XML
2 10 (12.99%) REST
3 9 (11.69%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (11.69%) Spring
4 8 (10.39%) EJB
4 8 (10.39%) Hibernate
4 8 (10.39%) HTML
4 8 (10.39%) HTML5
4 8 (10.39%) J2EE
4 8 (10.39%) J2SE
4 8 (10.39%) Play Framework
4 8 (10.39%) SOAP
5 5 (6.49%) YAML
6 4 (5.19%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.60%) Node.js
7 2 (2.60%) React
7 2 (2.60%) Redux
7 2 (2.60%) RESTful
8 1 (1.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Grid Computing
1 5 (6.49%) Private Cloud
1 5 (6.49%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.90%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.60%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.30%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.30%) IoT
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (1.30%) Replication
4 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.38%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Unix
3 6 (7.79%) Windows
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.16%) DevOps
2 29 (37.66%) Agile
3 28 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (35.06%) CI/CD
5 16 (20.78%) Software Engineering
6 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (18.18%) Microservices
7 13 (16.88%) Migration
8 11 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (14.29%) Scrum
9 10 (12.99%) Open Source
10 9 (11.69%) Data Modelling
10 9 (11.69%) Mentoring
11 8 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (10.39%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (10.39%) ETL
11 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (10.39%) Lean Software Development
11 8 (10.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (40.26%) Python
2 23 (29.87%) SQL
3 13 (16.88%) Java
4 8 (10.39%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.39%) Scala
5 7 (9.09%) Bash
6 4 (5.19%) Go
7 3 (3.90%) Ruby
8 2 (2.60%) Bicep
8 2 (2.60%) C++
9 1 (1.30%) C
9 1 (1.30%) C#
9 1 (1.30%) Fortran
9 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.30%) Perl
9 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) Degree
4 5 (6.49%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.19%) OCP
5 4 (5.19%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.90%) PgMP
6 3 (3.90%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.90%) PMP
7 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) GDPR
2 5 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.19%) ISO 19650
3 4 (5.19%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.30%) GRC
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.30%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.30%) NCSC
4 1 (1.30%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) Docker
2 6 (7.79%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (6.49%) GPFS
3 5 (6.49%) Lustre
3 5 (6.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (19.48%) Kubernetes
1 15 (19.48%) Terraform
2 11 (14.29%) Puppet
3 7 (9.09%) Grafana
3 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 7 (9.09%) Sysdig
4 4 (5.19%) Ansible
5 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.30%) Consul
6 1 (1.30%) Podman
6 1 (1.30%) Salt
6 1 (1.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.39%) webMethods
3 6 (7.79%) Google
4 5 (6.49%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.19%) Autodesk
5 4 (5.19%) NetApp
6 3 (3.90%) Samsung
7 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.30%) Databricks
8 1 (1.30%) Greenplum
8 1 (1.30%) Informatica
8 1 (1.30%) Sophos
8 1 (1.30%) Talend