Cloud Specialist Contracts

Cloud Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 658 761
Rank change year-on-year +103 +103 -94
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 30 35 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.060% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.064% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 63
10th Percentile £502 £475 £450
25th Percentile £506 £506 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +33.33%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £650
90th Percentile £697 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -9.38% -7.69% +79.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.75
Median hourly rate - - £59.50
75th Percentile - - £63.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +96 25 £534 -11.05% 11
London +83 16 £513 -14.58% 3
Work from Home +124 12 £538 -2.27% 3
UK excluding London +72 12 £544 -9.38% 7
South West - 5 - -
Scotland - 3 £573 -
East of England +5 2 £538 +7.50%
Yorkshire +25 1 - -
North of England +21 1 - - 4
South East +18 1 £534 -11.05% 1
East Midlands - 1 £700 -
Midlands - 1 £700 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Cloud Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (43.33%) Oracle
2 12 (40.00%) AWS
3 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (30.00%) Azure
3 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
4 8 (26.67%) OCI
5 7 (23.33%) Windows
6 6 (20.00%) VMware
6 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
7 5 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
7 5 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (16.67%) SCCM
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
7 5 (16.67%) Data Reconciliation
7 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
7 5 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Windows 10
7 5 (16.67%) Finance
7 5 (16.67%) Law
7 5 (16.67%) Validation
7 5 (16.67%) ITIL
7 5 (16.67%) Citrix
8 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
8 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
8 4 (13.33%) Agile

Cloud Specialist 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 1 (3.33%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (26.67%) OCI
4 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) LAN
1 2 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (3.33%) BGP
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) NAS
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) OSPF
2 1 (3.33%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.33%) Wireless
2 1 (3.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
1 5 (16.67%) Law
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.67%) Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) Data Reconciliation
1 5 (16.67%) ITIL
1 5 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (16.67%) Validation
2 4 (13.33%) Agile
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (13.33%) DevOps
2 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (10.00%) Cost Control
3 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.00%) Time Management
4 2 (6.67%) Analytics
4 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Bash
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) Java
2 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) CIPD
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) SCOM
3 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Oracle
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) VMware
4 5 (16.67%) Citrix
4 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper
5 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.33%) Remedy
5 1 (3.33%) SAP