Cloud Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £544 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 442 501
Rank change year-on-year +61 +59 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 14 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.041% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.044% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £513 - £263
25th Percentile £519 £475 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £543
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +10.60% +97.27%
75th Percentile £626 £670 £650
90th Percentile £680 £688 £707
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +33.33%

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 19,260 22,774 29,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 15,954 20,879
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 1,200 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.66 £18.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 West - 5 - -
Scotland - 3 £573 -
North of England +37 2 £500 - 2
Yorkshire +26 2 £500 -25.93%
East of England +16 2 £538 +7.50%
Wales +15 1 £650 -3.70%
South East +11 1 £534 -11.05% 1
East Midlands - 1 £700 -
Midlands - 1 £700 -
Cloud Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Cloud Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) OCI
3 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (35.71%) Data Reconciliation
3 5 (35.71%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Law
3 5 (35.71%) Validation
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) LAN
5 2 (14.29%) WAN
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco

Cloud Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) OCI
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) LAN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) NAS
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (35.71%) Law
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Data Reconciliation
1 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (35.71%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (35.71%) Validation
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
3 1 (7.14%) Change Management
3 1 (7.14%) Data Security
3 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.14%) ERP
3 1 (7.14%) Information Security
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL
3 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.14%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CCNA
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft