Cloud Computing Contracts

Cloud Computing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 323 412
Rank change year-on-year -37 +89 -72
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 249 469 538
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.78% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.13% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 342 316
10th Percentile £313 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £564 £570
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -1.10% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 9
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £18.75 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -13.64% +12.82%
75th Percentile £36.63 £42.13 £26.50
90th Percentile £67.45 £54.22 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.75 £19.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -1.32% -8.43% +6.41%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +9 225 £600 +4.35% 302
London +13 126 £600 +4.35% 103
UK excluding London +4 92 £625 +13.64% 218
Work from Home -23 75 £550 - 141
South West +1 33 £650 +1.96% 25
North of England +39 27 £450 -21.74% 87
North West +18 18 £450 -21.74% 59
South East +3 14 £225 -60.49% 37
East of England +17 9 £575 -9.80% 14
Yorkshire +21 6 £450 -37.93% 21
Wales - 4 £91 - 6
Scotland +19 3 £581 +13.41% 21
North East - 3 - - 7
West Midlands +16 2 £275 -47.62% 13
Midlands +4 2 £275 -43.88% 25

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.21%) Confluence
2 6 (2.41%) Apache
3 4 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.61%) CMS
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.01%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Endur
2 3 (1.20%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.80%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 103 (41.37%) Azure
2 84 (33.73%) AWS
3 59 (23.69%) PaaS
4 57 (22.89%) IaaS
5 55 (22.09%) SaaS
6 46 (18.47%) GCP
7 15 (6.02%) Serverless
8 14 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.82%) Nutanix
10 11 (4.42%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.21%) Azure Storage
11 8 (3.21%) Rubrik
12 7 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.81%) ChatGPT
12 7 (2.81%) GitHub
13 5 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.01%) Azure App Service
13 5 (2.01%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 5 (2.01%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (16.87%) WAN
2 40 (16.06%) LAN
3 28 (11.24%) Firewall
4 23 (9.24%) DNS
5 17 (6.83%) VPN
6 15 (6.02%) TCP/IP
7 13 (5.22%) DHCP
7 13 (5.22%) SAN
8 11 (4.42%) NAS
9 10 (4.02%) Network Security
10 8 (3.21%) InfiniBand
10 8 (3.21%) Internet
10 8 (3.21%) Kerberos
10 8 (3.21%) VLAN
10 8 (3.21%) WLAN
11 7 (2.81%) IPsec
12 6 (2.41%) BGP
12 6 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (2.41%) OSPF
12 6 (2.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.82%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.61%) Big Data
5 8 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.21%) MySQL
6 7 (2.81%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.41%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.01%) Bigtable
9 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.61%) Cloud Spanner
9 4 (1.61%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.20%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.80%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (6.43%) Git
2 14 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.42%) JIRA
4 9 (3.61%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.01%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.20%) GitLab
6 3 (1.20%) JMeter
6 3 (1.20%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.20%) NeoLoad
6 3 (1.20%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.80%) webpack
8 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.40%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.40%) Moq
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.40%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (22.09%) Public Sector
1 55 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.08%) Finance
3 35 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.64%) Manufacturing
5 15 (6.02%) Banking
6 14 (5.62%) Marketing
6 14 (5.62%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.82%) Electronics
8 8 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.81%) Law
10 5 (2.01%) Mandarin Language
10 5 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Legal
12 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.80%) French Language
13 2 (0.80%) German Language
13 2 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (25.70%) Architect
2 28 (11.24%) Network Architect
2 28 (11.24%) Senior
3 18 (7.23%) Analyst
3 18 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (6.43%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.02%) Developer
6 14 (5.62%) Consultant
6 14 (5.62%) Support Engineer
7 13 (5.22%) Network Engineer
8 12 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.21%) Business Analyst
10 7 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (2.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.81%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (2.81%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (2.81%) Software Engineer
10 7 (2.81%) Technical Support
11 6 (2.41%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.62%) RESTful
2 13 (5.22%) React
3 12 (4.82%) LDAP
4 9 (3.61%) .NET
4 9 (3.61%) HTML
4 9 (3.61%) PyTorch
4 9 (3.61%) TensorFlow
5 7 (2.81%) Hugging Face
5 7 (2.81%) LangChain
6 5 (2.01%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.01%) JSON
6 5 (2.01%) Kafka
6 5 (2.01%) Node.js
7 3 (1.20%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.20%) CSS
7 3 (1.20%) EDI
7 3 (1.20%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.20%) Middleware
7 3 (1.20%) Next.js
7 3 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.06%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.82%) Clustering
3 11 (4.42%) IoT
4 10 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.61%) PKI
6 8 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.21%) Replication
7 7 (2.81%) Robotics
8 6 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.01%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.61%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.25%) Windows
2 29 (11.65%) Linux
3 20 (8.03%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.02%) Unix
6 8 (3.21%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (3.21%) Solaris
7 5 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.61%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.20%) CentOS
10 2 (0.80%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.80%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (21.69%) Agile
3 53 (21.29%) DevOps
4 39 (15.66%) Business Strategy
5 38 (15.26%) Open Source
6 34 (13.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (12.45%) Artificial Intelligence
7 31 (12.45%) Computer Science
8 30 (12.05%) Migration
9 28 (11.24%) CI/CD
9 28 (11.24%) Machine Learning
9 28 (11.24%) Network Management
9 28 (11.24%) Zero Trust
10 25 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (8.43%) Change Management
11 21 (8.43%) Roadmaps
12 19 (7.63%) Containerisation
13 17 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (6.83%) High Availability
14 16 (6.43%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.88%) Python
1 47 (18.88%) SQL
2 34 (13.65%) PowerShell
3 31 (12.45%) Java
4 20 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.02%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.82%) Bash
6 12 (4.82%) C#
7 10 (4.02%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.41%) C
9 4 (1.61%) Scala
10 3 (1.20%) ABAP
10 3 (1.20%) Bicep
10 3 (1.20%) C++
10 3 (1.20%) Go
11 2 (0.80%) Clojure
11 2 (0.80%) Perl
11 2 (0.80%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) Rust
11 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (26.10%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.26%) Degree
3 34 (13.65%) DV Cleared
4 28 (11.24%) SC Cleared
5 22 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.61%) CCIE
9 4 (1.61%) CCNP
10 3 (1.20%) CCNA
11 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.80%) CISSP
11 2 (0.80%) CSPO
11 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.80%) MCP
11 2 (0.80%) MCSE
11 2 (0.80%) MOS
12 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.02%) Data Quality
1 10 (4.02%) GDPR
2 8 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.01%) SLA
5 3 (1.20%) QA
6 2 (0.80%) COBIT
6 2 (0.80%) WCAG
7 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.40%) EMIR
7 1 (0.40%) FATCA
7 1 (0.40%) MiFID
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (10.44%) Active Directory
2 24 (9.64%) Docker
3 23 (9.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.22%) Hyper-V
5 8 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.81%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.81%) vSphere
7 4 (1.61%) NFS
8 2 (0.80%) HDFS
8 2 (0.80%) KVM
8 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.40%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 34 (13.65%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.04%) Terraform
3 17 (6.83%) Ansible
4 8 (3.21%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.21%) Netcool
4 8 (3.21%) Tivoli
4 8 (3.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (2.81%) FortiGate
6 6 (2.41%) Grafana
7 5 (2.01%) SCCM
8 4 (1.61%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.20%) Kibana
9 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.20%) Puppet
10 2 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.80%) Nagios
10 2 (0.80%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.84%) VMware
3 26 (10.44%) Oracle
4 23 (9.24%) Google
5 21 (8.43%) Cisco
6 19 (7.63%) SAP
7 15 (6.02%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.42%) Dell
8 11 (4.42%) HP
8 11 (4.42%) Splunk
9 10 (4.02%) IBM
10 8 (3.21%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.21%) EMC
10 8 (3.21%) Isilon
10 8 (3.21%) Qualys
10 8 (3.21%) Serena
11 7 (2.81%) Citrix
11 7 (2.81%) Juniper
11 7 (2.81%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.01%) Extreme Networks