CloudStack Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache CloudStack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CloudStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CloudStack 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.049% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £425 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

CloudStack falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,060 1,466 1,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.57% 11.52% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,439 958 1,162
10th Percentile £267 £220 £213
25th Percentile £367 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £559 £563 £575
90th Percentile £660 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 57 120
10th Percentile £15.37 £16.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.12 £52.50 £24.47
Median % change year-on-year -29.30% +114.59% -16.36%
75th Percentile £73.13 £65.00 £47.61
90th Percentile £79.80 £77.98 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.44 £47.50 £28.01
% change year-on-year -38.02% +69.59% -37.76%

CloudStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CloudStack job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CloudStack
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

CloudStack
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 CloudStack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2026. 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
Midlands - 1 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
CloudStack
UK

CloudStack
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 1 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware