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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 519 588
Rank change year-on-year -88 +69 +120
Contract jobs citing Cloud Enablement 9 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.027% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.030% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile £498 £414 -
25th Percentile £504 £448 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £663 £501 -
90th Percentile £738 £512 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £470 -
% change year-on-year +5.23% - -

All Process & 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 39,853 26,632 37,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,078 17,168 24,015
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,383 1,080 2,442
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%
75th Percentile £67.13 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.57 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.59% -26.48% +7.14%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Enablement over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Enablement in the UK

Cloud Enablement
Top 5 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 4 May 2026. 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
UK excluding London -99 5 £495 +5.23% 4
Scotland - 5 £495 - 1
London -49 3 £650 +29.87% 1
England -111 3 £650 +33.33% 3
Work from Home -33 2 £775 +63.16%

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 (11.11%) SAP PM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
3 1 (11.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) NGN
1 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modeller
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) ITSM Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Financial Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) AI
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki