Cloud Consultant Contracts

Cloud Consultant
UK

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 553 610
Rank change year-on-year +61 +57 -179
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 93 136 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 62 121
10th Percentile £388 £464 £500
25th Percentile £513 £510 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £631
Median % change year-on-year - -12.84% +16.85%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £699 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £541 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -1.59% -15.38% +23.81%

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 39,738 53,234 84,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,861 37,175 59,182
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,475 2,018
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 28 May 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 14 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 28 May 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 +84 77 £550 -8.33% 26
London +89 55 £561 -2.39% 14
Work from Home +81 46 £550 +7.32% 16
UK excluding London +19 28 £541 -1.59% 14
Scotland +40 7 £555 - 5
North of England +22 7 £550 +10.00% 2
North West +21 6 £550 +4.76%
South East +12 6 £575 - 1
South West +5 4 £263 -62.50% 3
Midlands +12 2 £550 -20.00% 2
West Midlands +1 2 £550 -20.00% 2
East of England - 2 £538 - 1
Yorkshire +11 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 55 (59.14%) Oracle
2 49 (52.69%) OCI
3 24 (25.81%) Azure
4 22 (23.66%) Finance
5 21 (22.58%) Social Skills
6 14 (15.05%) Migration
6 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
7 13 (13.98%) ERP
7 13 (13.98%) Data Migration
7 13 (13.98%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (13.98%) GCP
8 12 (12.90%) AWS
9 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
9 11 (11.83%) Cloud Security
10 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (9.68%) Degree
12 8 (8.60%) PLM
12 8 (8.60%) Project Management
13 7 (7.53%) WAN
13 7 (7.53%) Agile
13 7 (7.53%) Security Cleared
13 7 (7.53%) SaaS
14 6 (6.45%) DevOps
14 6 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (6.45%) SDLC
14 6 (6.45%) Oracle Service Cloud
14 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 6 (6.45%) Banking

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.15%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Oracle Payroll
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (2.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (2.15%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (1.08%) SAP CX
4 1 (1.08%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 49 (52.69%) OCI
2 24 (25.81%) Azure
3 13 (13.98%) GCP
4 12 (12.90%) AWS
5 7 (7.53%) SaaS
6 6 (6.45%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 5 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (3.23%) IaaS
9 3 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.15%) Oracle CX
11 1 (1.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 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%) SSH
3 2 (2.15%) VSAN
4 1 (1.08%) DNS
4 1 (1.08%) LAN
4 1 (1.08%) MPLS
4 1 (1.08%) PBX
4 1 (1.08%) VPLS
4 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.15%) MySQL
3 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.15%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (23.66%) Finance
2 21 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Banking
6 4 (4.30%) Law
6 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.15%) Legal
8 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.08%) French Language
9 1 (1.08%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.08%) German Language
9 1 (1.08%) Marketing
9 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.30%) Web Services
3 2 (2.15%) LDAP
3 2 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (2.15%) OpenID
3 2 (2.15%) SailPoint
3 2 (2.15%) SAML
3 2 (2.15%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Data Centre
1 5 (5.38%) PKI
2 4 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.30%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.15%) Clustering
4 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.15%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Windows
2 3 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (1.08%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (15.05%) Migration
2 13 (13.98%) Data Migration
2 13 (13.98%) ERP
3 11 (11.83%) Cloud Security
4 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (8.60%) PLM
5 8 (8.60%) Project Management
6 7 (7.53%) Agile
7 6 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (6.45%) DevOps
7 6 (6.45%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (6.45%) Penetration Testing
7 6 (6.45%) SDLC
8 5 (5.38%) Data Encryption
8 5 (5.38%) Database Security
8 5 (5.38%) DevSecOps
8 5 (5.38%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (5.38%) Key Management
8 5 (5.38%) Security Auditing
8 5 (5.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.38%) Kusto Query Language
1 5 (5.38%) SQL
2 4 (4.30%) Java
2 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.15%) Apex Code
3 2 (2.15%) Go
3 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.15%) Python
3 2 (2.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Degree
2 7 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) CISA
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.08%) CISM
6 1 (1.08%) CISMP
6 1 (1.08%) CISSP
6 1 (1.08%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.08%) COBIT
4 1 (1.08%) GRC
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.08%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.23%) Docker
3 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.15%) vSphere
4 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
2 2 (2.15%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.15%) VxRail
3 1 (1.08%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 55 (59.14%) Oracle
2 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.38%) Google
3 5 (5.38%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.30%) SAP
4 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.30%) VMware
5 2 (2.15%) Cisco
5 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.15%) Dell
5 2 (2.15%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.08%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud