Public Cloud Contracts in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public 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 240 220 233
Rank change year-on-year -20 +13 -24
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 96 187 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.90% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 3.05% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 129 176
10th Percentile £399 £449 £413
25th Percentile £531 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £600 £596
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +0.63% +4.15%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £675
90th Percentile £744 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £609 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +1.46% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - £36.75 £76.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -50.64% -
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £38.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +46.75% -47.26% +37.09%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Public 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%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public 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 Public 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
South East +54 35 £615 +3.36% 83
Scotland +3 23 £572 -8.56% 29
North of England -29 17 £537 -21.89% 89
North West -24 13 £537 -36.82% 49
Midlands +12 8 £537 -20.44% 56
East of England +36 7 £600 - 43
East Midlands +9 5 £475 +6.74% 17
Wales -13 5 £586 +14.34% 9
South West +21 3 £575 -4.17% 41
West Midlands +5 3 £706 +0.89% 35
Yorkshire 0 3 £481 -10.47% 29
North East 0 1 - - 12
Public Cloud
UK

Public 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 3 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) Apache
2 2 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.08%) IIS
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.08%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.08%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (9.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.08%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.08%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.08%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (2.08%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.04%) Maximo
3 1 (1.04%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.04%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 53 (55.21%) AWS
2 45 (46.88%) Azure
3 18 (18.75%) SaaS
4 13 (13.54%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (10.42%) GCP
6 9 (9.38%) Serverless
7 8 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 6 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.25%) GitHub
9 5 (5.21%) Amazon Glacier
9 5 (5.21%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.21%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (4.17%) Cloudflare
11 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.58%) WAN
2 11 (11.46%) VPN
3 9 (9.38%) MPLS
4 8 (8.33%) Firewall
5 7 (7.29%) TCP/IP
6 5 (5.21%) BGP
6 5 (5.21%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (5.21%) NGFW
6 5 (5.21%) OSPF
6 5 (5.21%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.17%) DNS
7 4 (4.17%) LAN
7 4 (4.17%) VLAN
7 4 (4.17%) VSAN
8 3 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.46%) MySQL
2 5 (5.21%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.13%) Apache Hive
3 3 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.13%) MariaDB
3 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.13%) SAP HANA
3 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.08%) Big Data
5 1 (1.04%) Adabas
5 1 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.04%) HBase
5 1 (1.04%) HDInsight
5 1 (1.04%) Impala
5 1 (1.04%) Power BI
5 1 (1.04%) Presto
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.21%) JIRA
3 3 (3.13%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.08%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) Subversion
5 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.04%) Git
5 1 (1.04%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.04%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.04%) Selenium
5 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (29.17%) Finance
2 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.71%) Public Sector
4 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.21%) Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Retail
8 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Korean Language
8 2 (2.08%) Legal
9 1 (1.04%) Aviation
9 1 (1.04%) Billing
9 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Front Office
9 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.04%) International Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Law
9 1 (1.04%) Local Government
9 1 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (35.42%) Architect
2 16 (16.67%) Developer
2 16 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (14.58%) Senior
4 12 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 11 (11.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) Python Developer
7 9 (9.38%) Lead
8 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Senior Architect
11 5 (5.21%) Cloud Network Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) IT Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Network Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Principal Architect
12 4 (4.17%) AWS Architect
12 4 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
12 4 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
12 4 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.17%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.42%) Kafka
1 10 (10.42%) Spring
1 10 (10.42%) Spring Boot
2 9 (9.38%) Middleware
3 6 (6.25%) RESTful
4 5 (5.21%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.21%) Node.js
5 4 (4.17%) Angular 2
5 4 (4.17%) CSS
5 4 (4.17%) HTML
5 4 (4.17%) HTML5
6 3 (3.13%) .NET
7 2 (2.08%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.08%) LAMP
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (2.08%) REST
7 2 (2.08%) Swagger
8 1 (1.04%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.17%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.13%) PKI
3 3 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.04%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.04%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.04%) IoT
5 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (30.21%) Linux
2 18 (18.75%) Windows
3 9 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.29%) CentOS
4 7 (7.29%) Ubuntu
4 7 (7.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.08%) Unix
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.42%) Agile
2 32 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 26 (27.08%) Microservices
4 23 (23.96%) DevOps
5 20 (20.83%) SDLC
6 18 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (17.71%) Migration
8 15 (15.63%) DevSecOps
9 14 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (13.54%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (13.54%) IT Strategy
11 12 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 12 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
11 12 (12.50%) TOGAF
12 11 (11.46%) ITIL
13 10 (10.42%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (10.42%) Knowledge Transfer
13 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
14 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.25%) Python
2 19 (19.79%) Java
3 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.46%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.42%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.29%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.21%) SQL
8 4 (4.17%) C#
8 4 (4.17%) Perl
9 3 (3.13%) Bash
10 2 (2.08%) PHP
10 2 (2.08%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
11 1 (1.04%) Bicep
11 1 (1.04%) Natural
11 1 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.42%) Degree
4 9 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (7.29%) MCSE
7 5 (5.21%) CCNP
7 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.17%) CCIE
8 4 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.04%) CISA
11 1 (1.04%) CISSP
11 1 (1.04%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (1.04%) SANS
11 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.33%) NCSC
1 8 (8.33%) NIST
2 7 (7.29%) QA
3 4 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.50%) Docker
3 7 (7.29%) vSphere
4 6 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.04%) Apache Flume
6 1 (1.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (28.13%) Terraform
2 23 (23.96%) Ansible
3 16 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.29%) Nessus
4 7 (7.29%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.13%) Grafana
6 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.04%) Argo
7 1 (1.04%) CASB
7 1 (1.04%) Nagios
7 1 (1.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (19.79%) VMware
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 10 (10.42%) Cisco
4 10 (10.42%) Google
5 9 (9.38%) SAP
6 6 (6.25%) MuleSoft
6 6 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 5 (5.21%) IBM
8 4 (4.17%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.17%) Citrix
8 4 (4.17%) F5
8 4 (4.17%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.17%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.13%) Concur
9 3 (3.13%) Databricks
9 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.08%) Oracle
10 2 (2.08%) StreamSets
11 1 (1.04%) Informatica