Enterprise Cloud Contracts

Enterprise Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 567 662
Rank change year-on-year +73 +95 +88
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 25 33 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.076% 0.085%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 27
10th Percentile £331 £382 £468
25th Percentile £376 £433 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +4.60%
75th Percentile £571 £556 £757
90th Percentile £702 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -14.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Enterprise Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Enterprise Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Cloud in the UK

Enterprise Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Cloud in the UK

Enterprise Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Cloud in the UK

Enterprise Cloud
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +61 22 £500 - 100
London +29 14 £525 +2.44% 73
UK excluding London +50 9 £450 -10.00% 33
Work from Home +51 6 £384 -13.71% 55
Midlands +28 5 £400 -66.67% 2
West Midlands - 4 - - 1
North of England +29 3 £500 - 21
North West +12 3 £500 - 17
South West +45 2 £530 +6.00% 3
Scotland +4 1 - -

Enterprise Cloud
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 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) InfoPath
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.00%) Notion
3 1 (4.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (4.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 21 (84.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) SaaS
3 9 (36.00%) IaaS
3 9 (36.00%) PaaS
4 8 (32.00%) GCP
4 8 (32.00%) Serverless
5 7 (28.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (20.00%) Azure Functions
7 5 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (20.00%) Power Automate
7 5 (20.00%) PowerApps
8 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (8.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Power BI
2 5 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) DB2
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Architect
2 8 (32.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Automation Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Client Services Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Environment Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) IT Governance Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Platform Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) SAP Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) .NET
1 5 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (20.00%) CSS
1 5 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 5 (20.00%) HTML
1 5 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (12.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) CMDB
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) PMI
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) Migration
2 8 (32.00%) Project Delivery
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (24.00%) Workflow
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.00%) CRM
5 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (20.00%) MVC
6 4 (16.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) Data Design
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
6 4 (16.00%) Zachman Framework
7 3 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) C#
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) Bicep
4 2 (8.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) Perl
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) GRC
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Kubeflow
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Foundry
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) BMC
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) Citrix
3 1 (4.00%) Confluent
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Informatica
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Remedy
3 1 (4.00%) StreamSets