Cloud Foundry Contracts

Cloud Foundry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cloud Foundry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Foundry over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 566 672
Rank change year-on-year +52 +106 +63
Contract jobs citing Cloud Foundry 6 16 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.037% 0.077%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.18% 0.38% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 29
10th Percentile - £380 £500
25th Percentile £563 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £588
90th Percentile - £606 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £567 £400 £640
% change year-on-year +41.75% -37.50% +14.29%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Cloud Foundry falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,315 4,173 6,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.32% 9.58% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,210 2,865 4,602
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.78% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 161 147
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

Cloud Foundry
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Foundry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Foundry in the UK

Cloud Foundry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Foundry in the UK

Cloud Foundry
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Foundry in the UK

Cloud Foundry
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Foundry within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +55 5 £575 - 16
London +37 4 £594 +3.26% 8
UK excluding London +58 1 £567 +41.75% 11
Work from Home +29 1 - - 17
South East - 1 £567 - 4

Cloud Foundry
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 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Danish Language
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Gen AI Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (16.67%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Generative AI
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) LLM
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) Scala
2 1 (16.67%) ABAP
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) SAP