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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 556 663
Rank change year-on-year +65 +107 +80
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 26 34 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.079% 0.072%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 24
10th Percentile £363 £399 £459
25th Percentile £384 £433 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £619
Median % change year-on-year - -19.19% +3.13%
75th Percentile £600 £555 £713
90th Percentile £658 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% -16.12%
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 9,891 13,078 19,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.90% 30.37% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,312 8,413 13,248
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 901 636
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.75 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +38.98% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £28.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +8.53% +29.55% +4.76%

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 9 May 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 9 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 +64 23 £500 - 127
London +59 15 £550 +7.32% 91
UK excluding London +52 9 £450 -10.00% 51
Work from Home +42 6 £384 -13.71% 72
Midlands +14 5 £400 -66.67% 1
West Midlands - 4 - - 1
North of England +17 3 £500 - 21
North West +13 3 £500 - 17
South West +37 2 £530 +6.00% 10
Scotland +11 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 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.54%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.85%) IIS
3 1 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) InfoPath
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.85%) Notion
3 1 (3.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (3.85%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) SaaS
3 9 (34.62%) IaaS
3 9 (34.62%) PaaS
3 9 (34.62%) Serverless
4 8 (30.77%) GCP
5 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
6 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (19.23%) Azure Functions
7 5 (19.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (19.23%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (19.23%) Power Automate
7 5 (19.23%) PowerApps
8 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Power BI
2 5 (19.23%) Data Lake
2 5 (19.23%) RDBMS
2 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Marketing
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Architect
2 8 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Automation Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Client Services Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Environment Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Governance Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) IT Governance Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Platform Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Enterprise Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
1 5 (19.23%) .NET Framework
1 5 (19.23%) ASP.NET
1 5 (19.23%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (19.23%) CSS
1 5 (19.23%) Entity Framework
1 5 (19.23%) HTML
1 5 (19.23%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (11.54%) REST
2 3 (11.54%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) PySpark
4 1 (3.85%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) PMI
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Migration
2 8 (30.77%) Project Delivery
3 7 (26.92%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (23.08%) Workflow
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) CRM
5 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (19.23%) MVC
6 4 (15.38%) Data Architecture
6 4 (15.38%) Data Design
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
6 4 (15.38%) TOGAF
6 4 (15.38%) Zachman Framework
7 3 (11.54%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 5 (19.23%) C#
2 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) Bicep
4 2 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Perl
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) GRC
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (3.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Kubeflow
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) Foundry
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) BMC
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix
3 1 (3.85%) Confluent
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Informatica
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Remedy
3 1 (3.85%) StreamSets