Private Cloud Contracts

Private Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private 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 404 465 349
Rank change year-on-year +61 -116 +128
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 115 135 416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.31% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.16% 1.02% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 111 326
10th Percentile £373 £463 £459
25th Percentile £542 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £538 £615
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% -12.52% +9.33%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £737
90th Percentile £758 £688 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £535 £616
% change year-on-year +16.82% -13.18% +17.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 15
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +47.37%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +47.37%

All Generic Skills
UK

Private 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%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud.

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Private 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 +32 85 £615 +14.31% 113
London +76 58 £615 -0.61% 41
Work from Home +50 39 £615 +23.62% 84
UK excluding London -25 26 £625 +16.82% 83
North of England +35 13 £402 -21.56% 20
North West +16 10 £402 -21.56% 13
East of England +33 4 £598 +25.79% 2
South West -19 4 £715 +43.00% 30
Scotland +4 3 £675 +7.14% 4
Yorkshire - 3 £680 - 4
South East +30 2 £475 -25.49% 9

Private 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 9 (7.83%) OpenStack
2 7 (6.09%) JBoss
2 7 (6.09%) Tomcat
2 7 (6.09%) WebSphere
3 6 (5.22%) WebLogic
4 5 (4.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.87%) Camunda
5 1 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.87%) Documentum
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (13.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.22%) SAP MII
2 6 (5.22%) SAP VC
3 4 (3.48%) SAP PP
4 2 (1.74%) assyst
4 2 (1.74%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (1.74%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.74%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.74%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.74%) SAP PM
4 2 (1.74%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.87%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.87%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.87%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 32 (27.83%) Azure
2 29 (25.22%) AWS
3 15 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (11.30%) IaaS
5 12 (10.43%) PaaS
6 11 (9.57%) SaaS
7 6 (5.22%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.74%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.74%) GCP
9 2 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.87%) Akamai
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.57%) Network Security
2 8 (6.96%) Firewall
3 6 (5.22%) VPN
4 5 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (2.61%) DNS
5 3 (2.61%) VSAN
6 2 (1.74%) HTTP
6 2 (1.74%) MPLS
6 2 (1.74%) SNMP
6 2 (1.74%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.87%) 3G
7 1 (0.87%) 4G
7 1 (0.87%) BGP
7 1 (0.87%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.87%) IPv6
7 1 (0.87%) LTE
7 1 (0.87%) SAN
7 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.87%) VLAN
7 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) DB2
2 5 (4.35%) Big Data
2 5 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.74%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.74%) MySQL
4 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.74%) Redis
4 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Bitbucket
2 8 (6.96%) Git
3 5 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.48%) GitLab
5 3 (2.61%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.74%) JIRA
7 1 (0.87%) Hudson
7 1 (0.87%) Selenium
7 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.87%) TestNG
General
1 27 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.87%) Finance
3 17 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.30%) Banking
5 6 (5.22%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.22%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.35%) Retail
7 4 (3.48%) Legal
7 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.61%) Law
8 3 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.74%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.87%) Billing
10 1 (0.87%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (44.35%) Architect
2 23 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 21 (18.26%) Consultant
4 15 (13.04%) Senior
5 14 (12.17%) Lead
6 12 (10.43%) SAP Consultant
6 12 (10.43%) Technical Architect
7 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure Architect
8 10 (8.70%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 10 (8.70%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 9 (7.83%) DevSecOps Architect
9 9 (7.83%) Functional Consultant
9 9 (7.83%) Security Architect
9 9 (7.83%) Security Consultant
10 8 (6.96%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 7 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.22%) Azure Architect
12 6 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (5.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 6 (5.22%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.57%) REST
2 9 (7.83%) SOAP
3 7 (6.09%) Web Services
4 6 (5.22%) RAML
4 6 (5.22%) Spring
4 6 (5.22%) WSDL
5 5 (4.35%) .NET
5 5 (4.35%) CSS
5 5 (4.35%) HTML
5 5 (4.35%) JSP
5 5 (4.35%) Servlets
5 5 (4.35%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.48%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (3.48%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (3.48%) EJB
6 4 (3.48%) J2EE
6 4 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.61%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.48%) Public Cloud
2 10 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.22%) FMCG
4 6 (5.22%) PACS
5 5 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (4.35%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.48%) LIMS
7 3 (2.61%) CMDB
7 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.61%) Replication
8 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.04%) Linux
2 6 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (5.22%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.35%) Unix
4 3 (2.61%) CentOS
5 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.70%) Migration
2 30 (26.09%) DevOps
3 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (16.52%) Roadmaps
4 18 (15.65%) Agile
5 15 (13.04%) DevSecOps
5 15 (13.04%) High Availability
5 15 (13.04%) Network Architecture
6 13 (11.30%) Identity Access Management
6 13 (11.30%) Knowledge Transfer
6 13 (11.30%) SDLC
7 12 (10.43%) Capacity Planning
8 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure Management
9 10 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (8.70%) TOGAF
10 9 (7.83%) CI/CD
10 9 (7.83%) Configuration Management
10 9 (7.83%) Containerisation
10 9 (7.83%) OWASP
10 9 (7.83%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.65%) PowerShell
2 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
3 11 (9.57%) SQL
4 7 (6.09%) C#
4 7 (6.09%) Java
5 4 (3.48%) Python
5 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.74%) Bash
7 1 (0.87%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 26 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.83%) CEH
3 9 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (7.83%) CISM
3 9 (7.83%) CISSP
3 9 (7.83%) OSCP
4 8 (6.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 8 (6.96%) CCSP
5 7 (6.09%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.61%) Degree
6 3 (2.61%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) CCNP
7 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) NIST
1 9 (7.83%) PCI DSS
2 8 (6.96%) COBIT
3 3 (2.61%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (13.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (9.57%) Docker
3 10 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (5.22%) vSphere
5 5 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.61%) Active Directory
6 3 (2.61%) vCloud
6 3 (2.61%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 21 (18.26%) Ansible
2 15 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.96%) Terraform
4 4 (3.48%) Kibana
5 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.74%) Grafana
6 2 (1.74%) Puppet
6 2 (1.74%) VxRail
7 1 (0.87%) Consul
7 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.87%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (19.13%) VMware
2 18 (15.65%) SAP
3 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
4 11 (9.57%) Oracle
5 9 (7.83%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.22%) Okta
7 5 (4.35%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.61%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.61%) EMC
8 3 (2.61%) Ericsson
8 3 (2.61%) Google
8 3 (2.61%) Nokia
8 3 (2.61%) OpenText
8 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.74%) Cisco
9 2 (1.74%) Mavenir
10 1 (0.87%) Adobe
10 1 (0.87%) HP
10 1 (0.87%) IBM
10 1 (0.87%) Siemens