Cloud Consultant Contracts

Cloud Consultant
UK

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 572 600
Rank change year-on-year +67 +28 -184
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 93 147 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.26% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 71 132
10th Percentile £264 £475 £500
25th Percentile £418 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £628
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -4.38% +19.52%
75th Percentile £585 £694 £676
90th Percentile £744 £750 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -41.67% -7.69% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £46.20
25th Percentile - - £48.00
Median hourly rate - - £51.00
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £85.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Cloud Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Consultant 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 +95 76 £538 -10.42% 23
London +98 55 £550 -8.33% 9
Work from Home +88 35 £531 -2.52% 15
UK excluding London +45 21 £350 -41.67% 15
South East +23 6 £294 -48.83% 1
North of England +25 4 £550 +10.00% 5
South West +22 4 £263 -62.50% 4
North West +11 3 £550 +4.76% 4
East of England - 3 £538 - 2
Scotland - 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +17 1 - -
West Midlands +16 1 £550 -20.00% 1
Midlands +8 1 £550 -20.00% 2

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Cloud Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cloud Consultant in the job title.

1 51 (54.84%) Oracle
2 45 (48.39%) OCI
3 24 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (25.81%) Finance
4 20 (21.51%) Azure
5 18 (19.35%) Migration
6 17 (18.28%) Cloud Security
7 16 (17.20%) Degree
8 15 (16.13%) Data Migration
8 15 (16.13%) Microsoft
9 12 (12.90%) AWS
10 11 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (11.83%) GCP
11 10 (10.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 9 (9.68%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (9.68%) Risk Management
13 8 (8.60%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (8.60%) ERP
13 8 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (7.53%) PLM
14 7 (7.53%) Oracle EBS
14 7 (7.53%) WAN
15 6 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
15 6 (6.45%) Firewall
15 6 (6.45%) CISA
15 6 (6.45%) CISM
15 6 (6.45%) Penetration Testing
15 6 (6.45%) Agile
15 6 (6.45%) DevSecOps

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.15%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.08%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (1.08%) SAP CX
4 1 (1.08%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 45 (48.39%) OCI
2 20 (21.51%) Azure
3 12 (12.90%) AWS
4 11 (11.83%) GCP
5 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.30%) IaaS
8 3 (3.23%) Oracle CX
8 3 (3.23%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 3 (3.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.15%) SaaS
9 2 (2.15%) Taleo
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.08%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.08%) PaaS
10 1 (1.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) WAN
2 6 (6.45%) Firewall
2 6 (6.45%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.15%) Broadband
3 2 (2.15%) Internet
3 2 (2.15%) VSAN
4 1 (1.08%) DNS
4 1 (1.08%) LAN
4 1 (1.08%) MPLS
4 1 (1.08%) NAS
4 1 (1.08%) PBX
4 1 (1.08%) SAN
4 1 (1.08%) VPLS
4 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.08%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) JIRA
General
1 24 (25.81%) Finance
1 24 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.30%) Banking
3 4 (4.30%) Law
4 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.15%) French Language
5 2 (2.15%) German Language
5 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.08%) Legal
6 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.23%) RESTful
2 3 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) PKI
1 5 (5.38%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.30%) IVR
3 3 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.15%) IoT
4 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.15%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 1 (1.08%) Clustering
5 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.08%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Windows
2 2 (2.15%) Linux
3 1 (1.08%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (19.35%) Migration
2 17 (18.28%) Cloud Security
3 15 (16.13%) Data Migration
4 11 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (9.68%) Risk Management
6 8 (8.60%) ERP
6 8 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (7.53%) PLM
8 6 (6.45%) Agile
8 6 (6.45%) DevSecOps
8 6 (6.45%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (6.45%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (6.45%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (6.45%) SDLC
9 5 (5.38%) Database Security
9 5 (5.38%) DevOps
9 5 (5.38%) Key Management
9 5 (5.38%) Roadmaps
9 5 (5.38%) SIEM
9 5 (5.38%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.38%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (3.23%) Java
3 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (17.20%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (6.45%) CISA
2 6 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (6.45%) CISM
2 6 (6.45%) CRISC
3 5 (5.38%) CISMP
3 5 (5.38%) CISSP
4 3 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.15%) CCSP
6 1 (1.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.38%) COBIT
2 5 (5.38%) GRC
2 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 5 (5.38%) NIST
3 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.08%) ISO 31000
4 1 (1.08%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.08%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.23%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.15%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.15%) vSphere
3 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.15%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.15%) VxRail
3 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.08%) Proxmox
3 1 (1.08%) QRadar
Vendors
1 51 (54.84%) Oracle
2 15 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.38%) Genesys
4 4 (4.30%) Google
4 4 (4.30%) VMware
5 3 (3.23%) SAP
6 2 (2.15%) Avaya
6 2 (2.15%) Cisco
6 2 (2.15%) Dell
6 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) ESET
7 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.08%) IBM
7 1 (1.08%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.08%) Supermicro