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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 348 315
Rank change year-on-year +47 -33 +96
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 236 250 469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.58% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 1.78% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 166 339
10th Percentile £365 £313 £425
25th Percentile £459 £441 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £597 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% +5.66% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £653
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -22.45% +11.36% +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 11,009 14,039 21,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.57% 32.34% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,641 9,976 15,834
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 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 343 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £33.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +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 3 May 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 3 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
England +28 184 £585 -2.50% 832
London +29 113 £625 +4.17% 578
UK excluding London +68 98 £475 -22.45% 343
Work from Home +47 77 £570 +3.64% 315
Scotland +44 36 £500 -13.98% 29
North of England +15 31 £475 +5.56% 72
North West +8 16 £466 +3.56% 42
Yorkshire +14 12 £600 +33.33% 24
South East +31 9 £450 +100.00% 109
Midlands +25 9 £385 +39.82% 37
East Midlands - 8 £385 - 9
Wales +8 5 £290 +218.68% 8
South West +4 5 £550 -15.38% 45
East of England +32 3 £751 +30.61% 48
North East -4 3 £358 - 6
West Midlands +12 1 - - 23

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 (9.32%) Confluence
2 12 (5.08%) Apache
3 7 (2.97%) NetWeaver
3 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.12%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.69%) nginx
7 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.85%) CMS
8 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.42%) SAS
8 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (3.81%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.42%) Maximo
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (43.22%) Azure
2 62 (26.27%) AWS
3 38 (16.10%) GCP
4 22 (9.32%) SaaS
5 20 (8.47%) GitHub
6 18 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.20%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.78%) Power Platform
9 15 (6.36%) IaaS
9 15 (6.36%) OpenShift
9 15 (6.36%) PaaS
10 14 (5.93%) Slack
11 11 (4.66%) Entra ID
12 10 (4.24%) Serverless
13 9 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.81%) OCI
14 8 (3.39%) Azure AKS
14 8 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.63%) HTTP
2 13 (5.51%) NAS
2 13 (5.51%) SAN
3 11 (4.66%) Firewall
4 10 (4.24%) Network Security
5 8 (3.39%) DNS
6 7 (2.97%) VPN
7 6 (2.54%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.12%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.69%) DHCP
9 4 (1.69%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.69%) Wireless
10 3 (1.27%) BGP
10 3 (1.27%) IPsec
10 3 (1.27%) OSPF
10 3 (1.27%) WAN
11 2 (0.85%) 802.11
11 2 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.85%) HSRP
11 2 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.90%) MongoDB
2 18 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (5.93%) Apache Cassandra
3 14 (5.93%) MySQL
3 14 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.93%) Power BI
4 11 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.66%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.66%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.66%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.81%) Big Data
5 9 (3.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 9 (3.81%) Oracle ODI
5 9 (3.81%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (3.81%) Tableau
6 6 (2.54%) Flink
7 5 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.12%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 34 (14.41%) Git
2 31 (13.14%) JIRA
3 21 (8.90%) Jenkins
4 15 (6.36%) Cucumber
5 14 (5.93%) Jasmine
5 14 (5.93%) JUnit
6 6 (2.54%) Subversion
7 5 (2.12%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (2.12%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.69%) Postman
9 3 (1.27%) ERwin
10 2 (0.85%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.85%) GitLab
10 2 (0.85%) NetBeans
11 1 (0.42%) MLflow
11 1 (0.42%) Selenium
11 1 (0.42%) Serena SBM
11 1 (0.42%) Snyk
General
1 93 (39.41%) Social Skills
2 74 (31.36%) Finance
3 50 (21.19%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.56%) Banking
5 26 (11.02%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.36%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.39%) Back Office
7 8 (3.39%) Legal
8 7 (2.97%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.27%) Military
11 3 (1.27%) 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 (0.42%) Games
13 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (20.76%) Architect
2 38 (16.10%) Developer
3 36 (15.25%) Lead
4 29 (12.29%) Senior
5 17 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.36%) Data Engineer
6 15 (6.36%) Java Developer
7 12 (5.08%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.66%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.66%) Technical Leader
9 10 (4.24%) Analyst
9 10 (4.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (4.24%) Azure Architect
9 10 (4.24%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.24%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.39%) JavaScript Engineer
10 8 (3.39%) Report Writer
11 7 (2.97%) Lead Architect
11 7 (2.97%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.05%) RESTful
2 17 (7.20%) OpenAPI
2 17 (7.20%) Swagger
3 16 (6.78%) Spring
3 16 (6.78%) Spring Boot
4 14 (5.93%) Spring Security
5 13 (5.51%) Spring Batch
6 11 (4.66%) Middleware
6 11 (4.66%) REST
7 10 (4.24%) .NET
8 9 (3.81%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (3.39%) EDI
9 8 (3.39%) PySpark
9 8 (3.39%) XML
10 7 (2.97%) IDoc
10 7 (2.97%) JDBC
10 7 (2.97%) JMS
10 7 (2.97%) SAP PI
10 7 (2.97%) SOAP
10 7 (2.97%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.59%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.63%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (4.24%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.39%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.97%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.54%) Low-Code
10 5 (2.12%) Clustering
10 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.12%) PKI
10 5 (2.12%) Replication
10 5 (2.12%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.69%) Derivative
11 4 (1.69%) IoT
11 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.07%) Linux
2 32 (13.56%) Windows
3 25 (10.59%) Windows Server
4 21 (8.90%) Unix
5 19 (8.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.69%) Solaris
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.42%) SUSE
7 1 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (27.12%) DevOps
3 61 (25.85%) Agile
4 60 (25.42%) CI/CD
5 38 (16.10%) Machine Learning
6 35 (14.83%) Analytics
7 34 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
7 34 (14.41%) Data Security
7 34 (14.41%) Decision-Making
8 31 (13.14%) Data Protection
8 31 (13.14%) Software Engineering
9 30 (12.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 30 (12.71%) Data Modelling
10 27 (11.44%) Data Science
10 27 (11.44%) Visualisation
11 26 (11.02%) Continuous Integration
11 26 (11.02%) Migration
12 25 (10.59%) Containerisation
12 25 (10.59%) High Availability
12 25 (10.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 75 (31.78%) Python
2 68 (28.81%) SQL
3 58 (24.58%) Java
4 26 (11.02%) PowerShell
5 23 (9.75%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.47%) Bash
7 14 (5.93%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.51%) C#
9 10 (4.24%) Bicep
10 7 (2.97%) ABAP
10 7 (2.97%) Scala
11 6 (2.54%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.12%) Haskell
12 5 (2.12%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.69%) Groovy
13 4 (1.69%) OCaml
14 3 (1.27%) C++
14 3 (1.27%) Go
14 3 (1.27%) Perl
15 2 (0.85%) C
Qualifications
1 44 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.41%) Degree
4 22 (9.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.93%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.08%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.97%) CISSP
10 6 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.54%) CCNP
11 5 (2.12%) CESG Certified Professional
11 5 (2.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.85%) CCNA
13 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.85%) PMP
14 1 (0.42%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.78%) GDPR
3 10 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.97%) QA
5 6 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.54%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.12%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.27%) NCSC
7 3 (1.27%) NIST
7 3 (1.27%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.85%) MISRA
8 2 (0.85%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.85%) SLA
9 1 (0.42%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (16.10%) Docker
2 14 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.69%) vSphere
7 3 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.85%) NFS
8 2 (0.85%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.85%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.42%) Ceph
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 52 (22.03%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.44%) Terraform
3 11 (4.66%) NetBackup
3 11 (4.66%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (4.24%) Ansible
5 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.69%) Puppet
6 4 (1.69%) QRadar
6 4 (1.69%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.27%) Control-M
7 3 (1.27%) Netcool
7 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.85%) Cacti
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 (0.42%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.42%) Nagios
9 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.75%) Google
3 21 (8.90%) Oracle
4 15 (6.36%) VMware
5 12 (5.08%) Veritas
6 10 (4.24%) SAP
7 9 (3.81%) Splunk
8 8 (3.39%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.97%) Cisco
9 7 (2.97%) Databricks
10 6 (2.54%) IBM
11 5 (2.12%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.69%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.69%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.69%) iManage
12 4 (1.69%) Qualys
12 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.27%) BMC
13 3 (1.27%) EMC
13 3 (1.27%) Murex