Cloud Computing Contracts

Cloud Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 360 319
Rank change year-on-year +56 -41 +94
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 234 250 474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.57% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.77% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 165 344
10th Percentile £373 £313 £425
25th Percentile £463 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £19.85 £16.70 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.88 £17.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £18.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -1.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £26.13 £36.63 £42.13
90th Percentile £26.35 £67.45 £54.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £18.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year +1.33% -1.32% -8.43%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloud Computing 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

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 30 April 2025.

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
Top 16 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 30 April 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
England +22 183 £580 -3.33% 769
London +26 113 £625 +4.17% 538
UK excluding London +58 96 £475 -24.00% 261
Work from Home +50 76 £550 - 278
Scotland +42 36 £500 -13.98% 24
North of England +29 28 £471 +4.56% 67
North West +6 13 £463 +2.78% 39
Yorkshire +21 12 £600 +33.33% 22
South East +38 9 £450 +100.00% 50
Midlands +31 9 £367 +33.45% 30
East Midlands - 7 £367 - 9
South West +18 6 £550 -15.38% 43
Wales +6 5 £290 +218.68% 4
East of England +27 3 £751 +30.61% 38
North East 0 3 £358 - 6
West Midlands +16 2 - - 21

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 22 (9.40%) Confluence
2 12 (5.13%) Apache
3 7 (2.99%) NetWeaver
3 7 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.14%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.71%) nginx
7 3 (1.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.43%) SAS
9 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (3.85%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) Maximo
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (41.88%) Azure
2 58 (24.79%) AWS
3 35 (14.96%) GCP
4 22 (9.40%) SaaS
5 20 (8.55%) GitHub
6 18 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 18 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (6.84%) Power Platform
8 15 (6.41%) IaaS
8 15 (6.41%) OpenShift
8 15 (6.41%) PaaS
9 14 (5.98%) Slack
10 11 (4.70%) Entra ID
10 11 (4.70%) Serverless
11 10 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (3.85%) OCI
13 8 (3.42%) Azure AKS
13 8 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.69%) HTTP
2 13 (5.56%) NAS
2 13 (5.56%) SAN
3 11 (4.70%) Firewall
3 11 (4.70%) Network Security
4 8 (3.42%) DNS
5 6 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.56%) VPN
6 5 (2.14%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.71%) DHCP
7 4 (1.71%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.71%) Wireless
8 3 (1.28%) BGP
8 3 (1.28%) IPsec
8 3 (1.28%) OSPF
9 2 (0.85%) 802.11
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.85%) HSRP
9 2 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.97%) MongoDB
2 18 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (5.98%) Apache Cassandra
3 14 (5.98%) MySQL
3 14 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.98%) Power BI
4 11 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.70%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.70%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.70%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 9 (3.85%) Oracle ODI
5 9 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (3.85%) Tableau
6 8 (3.42%) Big Data
7 6 (2.56%) Flink
8 5 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.14%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (14.53%) Git
2 30 (12.82%) JIRA
3 21 (8.97%) Jenkins
4 15 (6.41%) Cucumber
5 14 (5.98%) Jasmine
5 14 (5.98%) JUnit
6 6 (2.56%) Subversion
7 5 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (2.14%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.71%) Postman
9 3 (1.28%) ERwin
10 2 (0.85%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.85%) NetBeans
11 1 (0.43%) GitLab
11 1 (0.43%) MLflow
11 1 (0.43%) Selenium
11 1 (0.43%) Serena SBM
11 1 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 93 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 73 (31.20%) Finance
3 48 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.82%) Banking
5 26 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.41%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.42%) Back Office
7 8 (3.42%) Legal
8 7 (2.99%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Military
11 3 (1.28%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Publishing
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (19.23%) Architect
2 39 (16.67%) Developer
3 37 (15.81%) Lead
4 30 (12.82%) Senior
5 15 (6.41%) Data Engineer
5 15 (6.41%) Java Developer
6 13 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.70%) Python Engineer
7 11 (4.70%) Technical Leader
8 10 (4.27%) Analyst
8 10 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 10 (4.27%) Azure Architect
8 10 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.27%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.85%) Security Architect
10 8 (3.42%) JavaScript Engineer
10 8 (3.42%) Report Writer
11 7 (2.99%) Integration Developer
11 7 (2.99%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.12%) RESTful
2 17 (7.26%) OpenAPI
2 17 (7.26%) Swagger
3 16 (6.84%) Spring
3 16 (6.84%) Spring Boot
4 14 (5.98%) Spring Security
5 13 (5.56%) Spring Batch
6 11 (4.70%) Middleware
6 11 (4.70%) REST
7 10 (4.27%) .NET
8 9 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (3.42%) EDI
9 8 (3.42%) PySpark
9 8 (3.42%) XML
10 7 (2.99%) IDoc
10 7 (2.99%) JDBC
10 7 (2.99%) JMS
10 7 (2.99%) SAP PI
10 7 (2.99%) SOAP
10 7 (2.99%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (8.55%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.42%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.56%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.56%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.14%) Clustering
10 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.14%) PKI
10 5 (2.14%) Replication
11 4 (1.71%) Derivative
11 4 (1.71%) IoT
11 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.23%) Linux
2 32 (13.68%) Windows
3 25 (10.68%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.55%) Unix
5 19 (8.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.71%) Solaris
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.43%) SUSE
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (27.78%) DevOps
3 61 (26.07%) CI/CD
4 60 (25.64%) Agile
5 36 (15.38%) Analytics
6 35 (14.96%) Data Security
6 35 (14.96%) Machine Learning
7 34 (14.53%) Decision-Making
8 32 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (13.25%) Software Engineering
10 30 (12.82%) Data Modelling
11 29 (12.39%) Data Protection
12 27 (11.54%) Data Science
12 27 (11.54%) Migration
13 26 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
13 26 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
13 26 (11.11%) Visualisation
14 25 (10.68%) High Availability
14 25 (10.68%) TDD
15 24 (10.26%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 74 (31.62%) Python
2 67 (28.63%) SQL
3 57 (24.36%) Java
4 26 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 24 (10.26%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.55%) Bash
7 14 (5.98%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.56%) C#
9 9 (3.85%) Bicep
10 7 (2.99%) ABAP
10 7 (2.99%) Scala
11 6 (2.56%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.14%) Haskell
12 5 (2.14%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.71%) Groovy
13 4 (1.71%) OCaml
14 3 (1.28%) C++
14 3 (1.28%) Go
14 3 (1.28%) Perl
15 2 (0.85%) C
Qualifications
1 44 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.38%) Degree
4 23 (9.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.13%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.42%) CISSP
10 6 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.56%) CCNP
11 5 (2.14%) CESG Certified Professional
11 5 (2.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.85%) CCNA
13 2 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.56%) GDPR
3 11 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.42%) QA
5 7 (2.99%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.56%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.14%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (1.28%) NCSC
8 3 (1.28%) NIST
8 3 (1.28%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.85%) MISRA
9 2 (0.85%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.85%) SLA
9 2 (0.85%) WCAG
10 1 (0.43%) COBIT
10 1 (0.43%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 38 (16.24%) Docker
2 14 (5.98%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.71%) vSphere
7 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.85%) NFS
7 2 (0.85%) Veritas File System
7 2 (0.85%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.43%) Ceph
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 52 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.54%) Terraform
3 11 (4.70%) NetBackup
3 11 (4.70%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (4.27%) Ansible
5 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.71%) Puppet
6 4 (1.71%) QRadar
6 4 (1.71%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.28%) Control-M
7 3 (1.28%) Netcool
7 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.85%) Cacti
8 2 (0.85%) CASB
8 2 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.85%) Grafana
8 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.83%) Google
3 22 (9.40%) Oracle
4 15 (6.41%) VMware
5 12 (5.13%) Veritas
6 11 (4.70%) SAP
7 9 (3.85%) Splunk
8 8 (3.42%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.99%) Cisco
9 7 (2.99%) Databricks
10 6 (2.56%) IBM
11 5 (2.14%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.71%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.71%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.71%) iManage
12 4 (1.71%) Qualys
12 4 (1.71%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.28%) BMC
13 3 (1.28%) EMC
13 3 (1.28%) Murex