Enterprise Cloud Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 349 403
Rank change year-on-year -44 +54 +63
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 16 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.047% 0.005%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.15% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £316 £420 -
25th Percentile £321 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% - -
75th Percentile - £530 -
90th Percentile £375 £548 -
UK median daily rate £425 £528 £645
% change year-on-year -19.43% -18.22% +7.50%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Enterprise Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,028 4,628 6,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.77% 31.33% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,734 2,612 3,866
10th Percentile £204 £200 £210
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £503 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.19% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 243 390
10th Percentile £13.05 £17.00 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.00 £22.61 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.36 £32.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% -27.37% +50.57%
75th Percentile £64.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £78.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.27 £33.54 £42.19
% change year-on-year -18.69% -20.50% +20.54%

Enterprise Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Enterprise Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Enterprise Cloud
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 Enterprise Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Midlands -31 5 £365 -
Midlands -46 5 £365 -8.75%
North of England -55 5 £350 -33.96% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £350 -
South West -6 3 £350 -33.96%
South East - 3 £438 - 10
Enterprise Cloud
UK

Enterprise Cloud
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
1 1 (6.25%) MPLS
1 1 (6.25%) NaaS
1 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) MySQL
1 10 (62.50%) Oracle Database
General
1 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) DBA
1 10 (62.50%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Network Architect
2 3 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (31.25%) Change Management
3 5 (31.25%) Line Management
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
5 3 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) AI
6 1 (6.25%) Generative AI
6 1 (6.25%) High Availability
6 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.25%) Observability
6 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) GCIH
3 1 (6.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) EMC
2 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft