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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 228 206
Rank change year-on-year +12 -22 +40
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 183 249 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 1.03% 1.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.01% 3.19% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 176 259
10th Percentile £465 £413 £363
25th Percentile £500 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £596 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% +3.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £675
90th Percentile £850 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £72.75 -
25th Percentile £36.75 £76.13 -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.64% - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £73.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -47.26% +37.09% -7.39%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,081 7,809 9,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.43% 32.44% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,631 5,283 6,773
10th Percentile £208 £213 £204
25th Percentile £375 £387 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 715 439 466
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 -8 63 £750 +25.00% 40
North West +37 51 £850 +41.67% 20
Scotland +49 34 £625 +19.05% 17
South West -1 28 £600 +9.09% 26
South East +7 27 £595 +20.20% 18
Wales +28 19 £513 -7.87% 3
Midlands +6 13 £700 - 14
West Midlands +13 12 £700 - 9
Yorkshire -17 11 £538 -2.27% 17
East Midlands +9 1 - - 5
North East -3 1 £525 -32.26% 3
East of England -5 1 - - 3
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 12 (6.56%) Confluence
2 5 (2.73%) Apache
3 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.55%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 87 (47.54%) Azure
2 83 (45.36%) AWS
3 25 (13.66%) GCP
4 17 (9.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.92%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.92%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.37%) PaaS
8 7 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.83%) GitHub
9 6 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.28%) Serverless
10 5 (2.73%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (2.73%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.73%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.73%) SaaS
11 4 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (27.32%) VPN
2 45 (24.59%) Firewall
3 16 (8.74%) WAN
4 11 (6.01%) LAN
5 9 (4.92%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.83%) DSL
7 6 (3.28%) BGP
8 4 (2.19%) DNS
8 4 (2.19%) MPLS
8 4 (2.19%) Network Security
8 4 (2.19%) SSL
9 3 (1.64%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.64%) IOS XR
9 3 (1.64%) OSPF
9 3 (1.64%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.09%) SAN
10 2 (1.09%) Wireless
11 1 (0.55%) Internet
11 1 (0.55%) PBX
11 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.74%) Relational Database
3 14 (7.65%) MySQL
4 8 (4.37%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.64%) Big Data
6 3 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.55%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.55%) DB2
8 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (10.93%) JIRA
2 19 (10.38%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.92%) Git
3 9 (4.92%) GitLab
4 6 (3.28%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.28%) Burp Suite
4 6 (3.28%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.73%) AppScan
5 5 (2.73%) JMeter
5 5 (2.73%) Selenium
5 5 (2.73%) Spinnaker
6 3 (1.64%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.55%) Maven
8 1 (0.55%) Postman
8 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 53 (28.96%) Finance
2 36 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.02%) Banking
4 20 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.56%) Billing
6 12 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.28%) Legal
8 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.19%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.64%) Automotive
11 2 (1.09%) Electronics
11 2 (1.09%) Marketing
12 1 (0.55%) Military
12 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (37.16%) Architect
2 45 (24.59%) Technical Architect
3 34 (18.58%) Lead
4 28 (15.30%) Lead Architect
5 27 (14.75%) Technical Leader
6 14 (7.65%) Senior
7 13 (7.10%) Cloud Architect
7 13 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) Commercial Manager
8 12 (6.56%) Contracts Manager
9 10 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.92%) DBA
11 8 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Full Stack Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) Developer
12 7 (3.83%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) Windows Engineer
13 6 (3.28%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.30%) Node.js
2 15 (8.20%) AngularJS
3 14 (7.65%) REST
4 12 (6.56%) CSS
4 12 (6.56%) HTML
5 11 (6.01%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (6.01%) JPA
5 11 (6.01%) Spring
5 11 (6.01%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.92%) Middleware
7 7 (3.83%) RESTful
8 6 (3.28%) .NET
8 6 (3.28%) Kafka
9 5 (2.73%) OAuth
10 4 (2.19%) JSON
10 4 (2.19%) Keycloak
10 4 (2.19%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.19%) SAML
11 3 (1.64%) Django
11 3 (1.64%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.10%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.01%) NHS
3 11 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.37%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.83%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.83%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.83%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.73%) PKI
8 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.55%) BYOD
11 1 (0.55%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.55%) IoT
11 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 68 (37.16%) Windows
2 44 (24.04%) Linux
3 38 (20.77%) Windows Server
4 33 (18.03%) Android
4 33 (18.03%) Apple iOS
5 10 (5.46%) Unix
6 3 (1.64%) zOS
7 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.09%) VMS
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (54.10%) Agile
2 83 (45.36%) DevOps
3 65 (35.52%) CI/CD
4 38 (20.77%) Security Architecture
5 35 (19.13%) Microservices
6 33 (18.03%) Design Patterns
7 32 (17.49%) Mobile Device Management
7 32 (17.49%) Zero Trust
8 30 (16.39%) Risk Management
9 27 (14.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 27 (14.75%) Roadmaps
9 27 (14.75%) Threat Intelligence
10 24 (13.11%) Change Control
11 22 (12.02%) Decision-Making
12 21 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (9.29%) Machine Learning
14 16 (8.74%) Architectural Patterns
14 16 (8.74%) Containerisation
14 16 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.11%) Java
1 24 (13.11%) Python
2 21 (11.48%) SQL
3 13 (7.10%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.10%) Ruby
3 13 (7.10%) TypeScript
4 11 (6.01%) Bash
5 5 (2.73%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.19%) C
6 4 (2.19%) Perl
7 3 (1.64%) C#
7 3 (1.64%) C++
7 3 (1.64%) PHP
7 3 (1.64%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.09%) Go
9 1 (0.55%) Groovy
9 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.46%) Degree
4 7 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.73%) CCNP
6 4 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.19%) HND
6 4 (2.19%) MCSE
6 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.09%) CCIE
8 2 (1.09%) SANS
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.55%) CISSP
9 1 (0.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.11%) QA
2 13 (7.10%) SLA
3 11 (6.01%) NCSC
4 9 (4.92%) NIST
5 8 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.19%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (1.64%) HL7
8 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 26 (14.21%) Docker
2 10 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.92%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.73%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.09%) vSphere
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.55%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 33 (18.03%) Ansible
2 32 (17.49%) Kubernetes
3 23 (12.57%) Terraform
4 17 (9.29%) Progress Chef
5 16 (8.74%) Puppet
6 13 (7.10%) Grafana
7 12 (6.56%) Nagios
7 12 (6.56%) Prometheus
8 11 (6.01%) Graylog
9 8 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (3.83%) CFEngine
10 7 (3.83%) PowerBroker
11 6 (3.28%) Istio
12 5 (2.73%) HP Fortify
12 5 (2.73%) Nessus
12 5 (2.73%) WebInspect
13 4 (2.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
14 3 (1.64%) OPNET
15 1 (0.55%) CA Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (17.49%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.48%) Splunk
3 19 (10.38%) VMware
4 12 (6.56%) Google
5 11 (6.01%) Atlassian
6 9 (4.92%) Cisco
7 8 (4.37%) F5
8 7 (3.83%) SAP
9 6 (3.28%) Checkmarx
9 6 (3.28%) Oracle
10 5 (2.73%) Apple
10 5 (2.73%) Databricks
10 5 (2.73%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.73%) Veracode
11 4 (2.19%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.19%) WSO2
12 3 (1.64%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.64%) New Relic
12 3 (1.64%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.64%) Zscaler