Cloud Enablement Contract Job Trends

Cloud Enablement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cloud Enablement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 543 603
Rank change year-on-year -39 +60 +180
Contract jobs citing Cloud Enablement 5 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.026% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.030% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £519 £444 -
25th Percentile £528 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £603 £647 -
90th Percentile £616 £788 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £538 -
% change year-on-year +11.63% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cloud Enablement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,541 30,291 38,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.45% 88.04% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,482 18,505 25,899
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 1,000 1,504
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.61 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.78 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.28 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.75% -27.46% +39.06%

Cloud Enablement
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Enablement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Enablement job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Enablement
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Enablement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Enablement

Cloud Enablement
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Enablement within the UK over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -43 4 £563 +7.14%
London -6 3 £525 -
UK excluding London -59 2 £600 +11.63%
Midlands - 1 £600 -
West Midlands - 1 £600 -
Scotland - 1 - -

Cloud Enablement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) NGN
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Migration Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (20.00%) Data Sharing
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Commvault
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam