Cloud Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 396 485
Rank change year-on-year +27 +89 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 31 42 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 32
10th Percentile £256 - £502
25th Percentile £388 £475 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £656
90th Percentile £588 - £813
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £628
% change year-on-year - -12.35% +14.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Cloud Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
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 Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
South East +11 9 £475 -17.39% 1
Scotland +39 7 £555 - 6
North of England +18 7 £550 +10.00% 4
North West +20 6 £550 +10.00% 3
South West +6 4 £263 -62.50% 4
Midlands +13 2 £550 -20.00% 3
West Midlands +7 2 £550 -20.00% 3
East of England - 2 £538 -
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Cloud Consultant
UK

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cloud Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Consultant in the job title.

1 18 (58.06%) Oracle
1 18 (58.06%) OCI
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (19.35%) Analytics
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 5 (16.13%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (12.90%) SAP
4 4 (12.90%) ERP
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.90%) Incident Management
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle Payroll
4 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
5 3 (9.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 3 (9.68%) VMware
5 3 (9.68%) Agile
5 3 (9.68%) SQL
5 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (6.45%) Cisco
6 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
6 2 (6.45%) Dell
6 2 (6.45%) Windows

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Smart View
1 1 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle Payroll
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (9.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (6.45%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (3.23%) SAP CO
4 1 (3.23%) SAP FI
4 1 (3.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) OCI
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 5 (16.13%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.45%) SaaS
4 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) VSAN
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) MPLS
2 1 (3.23%) PBX
2 1 (3.23%) VPLS
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 5 (16.13%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) French Language
4 1 (3.23%) German Language
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Mac OS X
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (19.35%) Analytics
2 4 (12.90%) ERP
2 4 (12.90%) Incident Management
2 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (9.68%) Agile
4 2 (6.45%) Capacity Management
4 2 (6.45%) Data Migration
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection
4 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (6.45%) Kanban
4 2 (6.45%) Migration
4 2 (6.45%) Presales
4 2 (6.45%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (6.45%) TOGAF
5 1 (3.23%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (3.23%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (3.23%) Case Management
5 1 (3.23%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (3.23%) Human Resource Management
5 1 (3.23%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.23%) CISA
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.23%) CISM
3 1 (3.23%) CISMP
3 1 (3.23%) CISSP
3 1 (3.23%) CRISC
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) COBIT
1 1 (3.23%) GRC
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (6.45%) vSphere
2 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) vCenter Server
1 2 (6.45%) VxRail
2 1 (3.23%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) SAP
3 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
3 3 (9.68%) VMware
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) Dell
4 2 (6.45%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.23%) Hyperion
5 1 (3.23%) JD Edwards
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud