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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 472 344
Rank change year-on-year +53 -128 +143
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 102 119 376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.27% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.02% 0.91% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 99 290
10th Percentile £358 £463 £450
25th Percentile £380 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% -10.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £725
90th Percentile £750 £688 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £525 £615
% change year-on-year -24.81% -14.63% +19.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +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 10,013 13,071 18,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.20% 30.12% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,267 8,363 12,844
10th Percentile £300 £274 £312
25th Percentile £406 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £680
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 931 609
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.91 £15.32 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.03 £35.50 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% +59.55% -17.53%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.43% +59.09% +2.95%

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 7 June 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 14 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 7 June 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 +48 75 £598 +11.06% 148
London +86 48 £614 -3.73% 67
Work from Home +49 31 £600 +20.00% 94
UK excluding London -21 29 £395 -24.81% 101
North of England +18 10 £384 -26.51% 20
North West +17 9 £384 -25.80% 7
South East +43 8 £475 -24.00% 40
Scotland +11 5 £358 -40.33% 12
East of England +24 3 £420 - 1
Midlands +7 2 £629 -6.81% 11
South West -17 2 £738 +47.50% 11
West Midlands +16 1 £900 +33.33% 8
Yorkshire - 1 £365 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 3

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 10 (9.80%) JBoss
1 10 (9.80%) Tomcat
1 10 (9.80%) WebSphere
2 9 (8.82%) WebLogic
3 5 (4.90%) Apache
4 4 (3.92%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.96%) nginx
6 1 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.98%) Camunda
6 1 (0.98%) CMS
6 1 (0.98%) Documentum
6 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 20 (19.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (8.82%) SAP MII
2 9 (8.82%) SAP VC
3 4 (3.92%) SAP PP
4 2 (1.96%) assyst
4 2 (1.96%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (1.96%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.96%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.96%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.96%) SAP PM
4 2 (1.96%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.98%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.98%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.98%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.39%) Azure
2 30 (29.41%) AWS
3 9 (8.82%) IaaS
3 9 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (8.82%) OpenShift
3 9 (8.82%) SaaS
4 8 (7.84%) PaaS
5 7 (6.86%) GCP
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.96%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.96%) GitHub
8 2 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.98%) Akamai
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.98%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.98%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.76%) Firewall
2 9 (8.82%) Network Security
3 8 (7.84%) VPN
4 5 (4.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (4.90%) WAN
5 4 (3.92%) DNS
5 4 (3.92%) VLAN
5 4 (3.92%) VXLAN
6 3 (2.94%) BGP
6 3 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.94%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.94%) VSAN
7 2 (1.96%) HTTP
7 2 (1.96%) IPsec
7 2 (1.96%) LAN
7 2 (1.96%) MPLS
7 2 (1.96%) OSPF
7 2 (1.96%) SAN
7 2 (1.96%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) DB2
2 6 (5.88%) Big Data
3 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.94%) Redis
4 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.96%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.96%) MySQL
5 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.96%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 14 (13.73%) Git
3 10 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.90%) GitLab
5 3 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.96%) JIRA
7 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.98%) Hudson
7 1 (0.98%) Selenium
7 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.98%) TestNG
General
1 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.53%) Finance
3 19 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.90%) Banking
6 4 (3.92%) Legal
6 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.94%) Law
7 3 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.96%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.98%) Billing
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Military
9 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (34.31%) Architect
2 20 (19.61%) Solutions Architect
3 19 (18.63%) Consultant
4 16 (15.69%) SAP Consultant
5 13 (12.75%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 12 (11.76%) Functional Consultant
6 12 (11.76%) Lead
7 11 (10.78%) Senior
8 9 (8.82%) Scrum Master
8 9 (8.82%) Technical Architect
9 8 (7.84%) SAP PP Consultant
9 8 (7.84%) SAP PP Functional Consultant
10 7 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
10 7 (6.86%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.88%) Network Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Architect
13 4 (3.92%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 4 (3.92%) Senior Architect
13 4 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) REST
2 12 (11.76%) SOAP
3 10 (9.80%) Web Services
4 9 (8.82%) RAML
4 9 (8.82%) WSDL
5 6 (5.88%) Middleware
5 6 (5.88%) Spring
6 5 (4.90%) .NET
6 5 (4.90%) CSS
6 5 (4.90%) HTML
6 5 (4.90%) JSP
6 5 (4.90%) React
6 5 (4.90%) Servlets
6 5 (4.90%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.92%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (3.92%) EJB
7 4 (3.92%) J2EE
7 4 (3.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.59%) Public Cloud
2 13 (12.75%) Product Ownership
3 11 (10.78%) Data Centre
4 9 (8.82%) PACS
5 7 (6.86%) LIMS
6 6 (5.88%) FMCG
7 5 (4.90%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.94%) Replication
10 2 (1.96%) CMDB
10 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.71%) Linux
2 6 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.90%) Unix
3 5 (4.90%) Windows
4 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.94%) CentOS
6 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.47%) Migration
2 20 (19.61%) Agile
3 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (17.65%) DevOps
5 16 (15.69%) SDLC
6 14 (13.73%) CI/CD
6 14 (13.73%) Configuration Management
6 14 (13.73%) High Availability
7 13 (12.75%) Roadmaps
8 10 (9.80%) Scrum
9 9 (8.82%) API Development
9 9 (8.82%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 9 (8.82%) Budget Control
9 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (7.84%) Backlog Management
10 8 (7.84%) Conflict Resolution
10 8 (7.84%) Containerisation
10 8 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.84%) Servant Leadership
10 8 (7.84%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 17 (16.67%) SQL
2 14 (13.73%) Python
3 12 (11.76%) Java
3 12 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 11 (10.78%) C#
5 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.96%) Bash
6 2 (1.96%) Go
6 2 (1.96%) Rust
7 1 (0.98%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 32 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) DBS Check
4 5 (4.90%) Degree
5 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.96%) CCNP
6 2 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.96%) JNCIA
6 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.98%) CEH
7 1 (0.98%) CISM
7 1 (0.98%) CISSP
7 1 (0.98%) OSCP
7 1 (0.98%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) NIST
2 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (8.82%) Docker
3 6 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 6 (5.88%) vSphere
4 5 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.90%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.92%) Active Directory
6 3 (2.94%) vCloud
6 3 (2.94%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (1.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (18.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.69%) Ansible
3 5 (4.90%) Terraform
4 4 (3.92%) Kibana
5 3 (2.94%) Grafana
5 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.96%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.96%) Puppet
7 1 (0.98%) Consul
7 1 (0.98%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.98%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) VMware
2 22 (21.57%) SAP
3 15 (14.71%) Microsoft
4 12 (11.76%) Oracle
5 9 (8.82%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.88%) Cisco
6 6 (5.88%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.90%) Google
8 3 (2.94%) Ericsson
8 3 (2.94%) F5
8 3 (2.94%) Nokia
8 3 (2.94%) OpenText
8 3 (2.94%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.96%) Juniper
9 2 (1.96%) Mavenir
9 2 (1.96%) Okta
9 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.98%) IBM
10 1 (0.98%) NetApp
10 1 (0.98%) Siemens