Cloudability Contract Job Trends

Apptio Cloudability
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cloudability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 552 627
Rank change year-on-year -31 +75 +186
Contract jobs citing Cloudability 4 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.008% 0.015%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.13% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £483 - £342
25th Percentile £513 - £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £360
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +52.78% -34.55%
75th Percentile £638 - £455
90th Percentile £668 - £512
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Cloudability falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,025 2,694 3,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 7.33% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,720 1,442 2,045
10th Percentile £357 £363 £369
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £663 £665 £664
90th Percentile £750 £752 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 67 86
10th Percentile £14.98 £25.24 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -26.54% +25.53%
75th Percentile £78.06 £61.68 £80.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £79.55 £89.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £40.33 £56.49
% change year-on-year +3.79% -28.62% +25.53%

Cloudability
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cloudability job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloudability
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloudability

Cloudability
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloudability over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloudability in the UK

Cloudability
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 Cloudability within the UK over the 6 months to 7 November 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 -20 4 £575 +4.55% 2
London +2 3 £675 +22.73%
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £475 - 1
North of England - 1 £475 - 1

Cloudability
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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Billing
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) FinOps
2 3 (75.00%) Budgeting
2 3 (75.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Economics
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) AOP
4 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow