Private Cloud Contracts in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 295 262
Rank change year-on-year -15 -33 +124
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 26 105 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.51% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 1.71% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 93 166
10th Percentile £358 £463 £433
25th Percentile £380 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £535 £616
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -13.18% +17.38%
75th Percentile £750 £606 £702
90th Percentile - £675 £763
UK median daily rate £615 £538 £615
% change year-on-year +14.31% -12.52% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +47.37%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Private 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 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private 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 Private Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +26 13 £402 -21.56% 20
North West +22 10 £402 -21.56% 13
East of England +30 4 £598 +25.79% 2
South West -18 4 £715 +43.00% 28
Scotland +8 3 £675 +7.14% 6
Yorkshire - 3 £680 - 5
South East +33 2 £475 -25.49% 15
Private Cloud
UK

Private Cloud
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) JBoss
1 6 (23.08%) Tomcat
1 6 (23.08%) WebSphere
2 5 (19.23%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Camunda
3 1 (3.85%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.85%) Akamai
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
1 4 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.85%) MPLS
3 1 (3.85%) SAN
3 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) DB2
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) Hudson
4 1 (3.85%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.85%) TestNG
General
1 11 (42.31%) Banking
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Billing
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Architect
2 10 (38.46%) Consultant
3 9 (34.62%) DevSecOps Architect
3 9 (34.62%) Security Architect
3 9 (34.62%) Security Consultant
4 8 (30.77%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 5 (19.23%) Scrum Master
6 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
7 3 (11.54%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 2 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
8 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Java Scrum Master
9 1 (3.85%) SAP Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) REST
2 6 (23.08%) SOAP
2 6 (23.08%) Spring
2 6 (23.08%) Web Services
3 5 (19.23%) JSP
3 5 (19.23%) RAML
3 5 (19.23%) Servlets
3 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
3 5 (19.23%) WSDL
4 4 (15.38%) EJB
4 4 (15.38%) J2EE
5 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.69%) CSS
5 2 (7.69%) CSS3
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) HTML5
5 2 (7.69%) Kafka
5 2 (7.69%) Middleware
6 1 (3.85%) pytest
6 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
3 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.85%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) DevOps
2 12 (46.15%) DevSecOps
3 11 (42.31%) Network Architecture
4 10 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (34.62%) OWASP
5 9 (34.62%) Security Management
6 7 (26.92%) Agile
6 7 (26.92%) SDLC
7 5 (19.23%) API Development
7 5 (19.23%) Backlog Management
7 5 (19.23%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (19.23%) Budget Control
7 5 (19.23%) Scrum
8 4 (15.38%) Conflict Resolution
8 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (15.38%) Servant Leadership
8 4 (15.38%) Situational Awareness
9 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
9 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
9 3 (11.54%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) CEH
1 9 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (34.62%) CISM
1 9 (34.62%) CISSP
1 9 (34.62%) OSCP
2 8 (30.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 8 (30.77%) CCSP
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) CCNP
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) NIST
1 9 (34.62%) PCI DSS
2 8 (30.77%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
1 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Ansible
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Grafana
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Consul
3 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.85%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) 3PAR
4 1 (3.85%) Adobe
4 1 (3.85%) Brocade
4 1 (3.85%) EMC
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) TIBCO