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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 287 243
Rank change year-on-year -30 -44 +146
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 26 103 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.51% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 1.75% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 91 163
10th Percentile £358 £463 £425
25th Percentile £363 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £525 £615
Median % change year-on-year -21.71% -14.63% +17.14%
75th Percentile £680 £600 £701
90th Percentile £744 £675 £748
UK median daily rate £600 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +11.52% -10.33% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +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 4,288 5,894 7,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.32% 29.09% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 3,538 5,020
10th Percentile £205 £210 £220
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £613
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 717 421
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.89 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.53 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +29.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.35 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.25 £22.49
% change year-on-year +1.63% +38.98% -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 16 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 16 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 +23 11 £393 -23.32% 19
North West +12 9 £393 -23.32% 16
South East +43 5 £431 -31.00% 21
East of England +26 4 £598 -
South West -23 3 £680 +36.00% 21
Scotland +3 2 £517 -18.02% 6
Yorkshire - 2 £523 - 1
Midlands +12 1 £358 -46.96% 13
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 2
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 7 (26.92%) JBoss
1 7 (26.92%) Tomcat
1 7 (26.92%) WebSphere
2 6 (23.08%) 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 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.85%) Akamai
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
1 4 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.85%) MPLS
3 1 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) DB2
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) Bitbucket
3 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) Hudson
4 1 (3.85%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.85%) TestNG
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Banking
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 11 (42.31%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Consultant
2 6 (23.08%) Scrum Master
3 5 (19.23%) DevSecOps Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Security Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Security Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior
7 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Scrum Master
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Implementation Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) REST
2 7 (26.92%) SOAP
2 7 (26.92%) Web Services
3 6 (23.08%) RAML
3 6 (23.08%) Spring
3 6 (23.08%) WSDL
4 5 (19.23%) JSP
4 5 (19.23%) Servlets
4 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
5 4 (15.38%) EJB
5 4 (15.38%) J2EE
5 4 (15.38%) Middleware
6 3 (11.54%) React
7 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.69%) CSS
7 2 (7.69%) CSS3
7 2 (7.69%) HTML
7 2 (7.69%) HTML5
7 2 (7.69%) Kafka
8 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Product Ownership
2 5 (19.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
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 10 (38.46%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) DevSecOps
2 8 (30.77%) SDLC
3 7 (26.92%) Network Architecture
4 6 (23.08%) API Development
4 6 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 6 (23.08%) Budget Control
4 6 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (23.08%) Migration
4 6 (23.08%) Scrum
5 5 (19.23%) Backlog Management
5 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 5 (19.23%) Conflict Resolution
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) OWASP
5 5 (19.23%) Security Management
5 5 (19.23%) Servant Leadership
5 5 (19.23%) Situational Awareness
6 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Java
1 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.54%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) CEH
1 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (19.23%) CISM
1 5 (19.23%) CISSP
1 5 (19.23%) OSCP
2 4 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (15.38%) CCSP
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) SC 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%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) NIST
1 5 (19.23%) PCI DSS
2 4 (15.38%) 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 5 (19.23%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.54%) Terraform
4 2 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.85%) Consul
5 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
5 1 (3.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
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%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) TIBCO