cloud-init Contracts

cloud-init
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring cloud-init skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited cloud-init 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 496 580 674
Rank change year-on-year +84 +94 +142
Contract jobs citing cloud-init 24 2 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.005% 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.36% 0.022% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 39
10th Percentile - - £613
25th Percentile £713 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.59%
75th Percentile £750 - £688
90th Percentile - - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

cloud-init falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing cloud-init as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for cloud-init in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing cloud-init.

Daily rate trend for cloud-init in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing cloud-init 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 +77 22 £725 -
UK excluding London +78 17 £750 -
North of England +34 17 £750 -
Work from Home - 11 £750 -
Yorkshire - 11 £725 -
London - 5 £725 -
North West +19 4 £750 -
North East - 2 £750 -

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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 12 (50.00%) nginx
1 12 (50.00%) Traefik
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
1 24 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 16 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
3 15 (62.50%) AWS Fargate
4 14 (58.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (58.33%) Entra ID
4 14 (58.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (58.33%) DNS
1 14 (58.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (100.00%) GitLab
1 24 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 6 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Senior
1 21 (87.50%) Senior DevOps
2 19 (79.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (62.50%) Kafka
2 14 (58.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) CentOS
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
1 24 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 24 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 24 (100.00%) DevOps
1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (62.50%) Secrets Management
4 14 (58.33%) Cloud Security
4 14 (58.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 14 (58.33%) Identity Management
4 14 (58.33%) Observability
4 14 (58.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 12 (50.00%) Agile
5 12 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Coaching
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (4.17%) Cost Reduction
8 1 (4.17%) Mentoring
8 1 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Bash
1 24 (100.00%) Go
1 24 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (58.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (58.33%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (100.00%) Packer
1 24 (100.00%) Terraform
2 16 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 15 (62.50%) Grafana
3 15 (62.50%) Prometheus
4 14 (58.33%) Consul
4 14 (58.33%) Istio
4 14 (58.33%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (58.33%) linkerd
4 14 (58.33%) Rancher
4 14 (58.33%) ZABBIX
5 12 (50.00%) HAProxy
6 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Okta
1 14 (58.33%) Splunk
2 12 (50.00%) Apple
2 12 (50.00%) ESET