Pulumi Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pulumi
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Pulumi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 355 396
Rank change year-on-year -35 +41 +89
Contract jobs citing Pulumi 15 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.013% 0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.043% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £501 - £414
25th Percentile £513 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.80%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Pulumi falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,826 4,679 6,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.27% 31.21% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,027 3,070 4,423
10th Percentile £239 £238 £220
25th Percentile £379 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 109 191
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.31 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +26.19% +7.69%
75th Percentile £53.19 £42.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.00% +11.11%

Pulumi
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Pulumi job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Pulumi
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Pulumi
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pulumi in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pulumi in the UK excluding London

Pulumi
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 Pulumi within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England - 9 £525 - 8
West Midlands - 6 £575 - 6
Midlands - 6 £575 - 7
North West - 5 £400 - 4
North East - 2 £575 -
Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 4
South East -21 1 £525 - 11
South West - 1 - - 9
Pulumi
UK

Pulumi
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 12 (80.00%) GCP
3 11 (73.33%) Datadog
4 10 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (66.67%) Azure
4 10 (66.67%) GitHub
5 9 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (33.33%) Azure AKS
6 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (33.33%) npm
6 5 (33.33%) OpenShift
7 4 (26.67%) Serverless
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (13.33%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (13.33%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) GitLab
2 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (40.00%) Git
4 5 (33.33%) Artifactory
4 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 5 (33.33%) CircleCI
4 5 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 5 (33.33%) Gradle
4 5 (33.33%) JUnit
4 5 (33.33%) Maven
4 5 (33.33%) Postman
4 5 (33.33%) Selenium
4 5 (33.33%) Snyk
4 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 5 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
1 4 (26.67%) Games
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (40.00%) REST
3 5 (33.33%) JSON
3 5 (33.33%) YAML
4 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
5 1 (6.67%) NestJS
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 13 (86.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (73.33%) Containerisation
4 9 (60.00%) Task Automation
5 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
6 6 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (40.00%) DevSecOps
6 6 (40.00%) Software Delivery
6 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
7 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (33.33%) SDLC
8 4 (26.67%) Agile
8 4 (26.67%) Observability
8 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 2 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Bash
3 5 (33.33%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (66.67%) Grafana
3 10 (66.67%) Prometheus
4 6 (40.00%) Ansible
5 5 (33.33%) Podman
5 5 (33.33%) Progress Chef
5 5 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Ping Identity