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 have cited Private Cloud over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 347 466
Rank change year-on-year -95 +119 +34
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 144 422 416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.70% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 2.11% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 330 296
10th Percentile £463 £461 £425
25th Percentile £475 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +9.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £634 £737 £650
90th Percentile £688 £820 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £618 £525
% change year-on-year -14.98% +17.62% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 5
10th Percentile £52.25 - £41.98
25th Percentile £55.63 - £42.33
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +47.37% -1.55%
75th Percentile £70.63 - £48.75
90th Percentile £74.75 - £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +47.37% -9.52%

All Generic Skills
UK

Private Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,278 19,990 29,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.43% 33.30% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,514 13,733 20,382
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £653 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 658 728
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.94
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% -16.69% +3.85%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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 25 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 13 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 25 April 2024. 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 -80 124 £535 -17.69% 57
UK excluding London -25 107 £525 -14.98% 38
South West -16 70 £500 -18.70% 10
Work from Home -7 42 £500 -16.67% 51
London -5 23 £550 -24.14% 22
South East +7 15 £638 +50.00% 5
Scotland +24 8 £630 +5.00% 3
North of England +8 6 £513 -33.87% 10
East of England +7 5 £475 -38.71% 2
North West +6 5 £513 -4.65% 8
West Midlands +11 3 £675 +3.85% 6
Midlands +9 3 £675 +3.85% 6
North East +8 1 £600 -24.95% 1

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 40 (27.78%) Confluence
2 35 (24.31%) SharePoint
2 35 (24.31%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (2.08%) CMS
3 3 (2.08%) Drupal
3 3 (2.08%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
5 1 (0.69%) JBoss
5 1 (0.69%) nginx
5 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.69%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.69%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.69%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 62 (43.06%) Azure
2 37 (25.69%) Azure Stack
3 27 (18.75%) AWS
4 9 (6.25%) GCP
5 7 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.86%) Datadog
6 6 (4.17%) IaaS
7 5 (3.47%) AWS Direct Connect
7 5 (3.47%) GitHub
7 5 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.78%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.08%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.08%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.08%) Route 53
9 3 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (42.36%) Firewall
2 36 (25.00%) BGP
3 26 (18.06%) DNS
4 14 (9.72%) DHCP
5 10 (6.94%) Internet
6 5 (3.47%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.47%) VoIP
7 3 (2.08%) LAN
7 3 (2.08%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (2.08%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.08%) SSL
7 3 (2.08%) VLAN
7 3 (2.08%) VSAN
7 3 (2.08%) WAN
7 3 (2.08%) WLAN
8 2 (1.39%) VPN
9 1 (0.69%) IPv6
9 1 (0.69%) Skype
9 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.94%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.69%) MySQL
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (33.33%) JIRA
2 12 (8.33%) Git
3 11 (7.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.47%) Artifactory
4 5 (3.47%) GitLab
5 4 (2.78%) Selenium
6 3 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.08%) Subversion
7 2 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.39%) Maven
7 2 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.69%) GoCD
General
1 48 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.86%) Finance
5 6 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.08%) Banking
6 3 (2.08%) Marketing
7 2 (1.39%) Electronics
7 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.39%) Legal
7 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Retail
7 2 (1.39%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.69%) French Language
8 1 (0.69%) Front Office
8 1 (0.69%) German Language
Job Titles
1 26 (18.06%) Architect
2 22 (15.28%) Analyst
3 20 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (13.19%) Network Engineer
5 17 (11.81%) Microsoft Engineer
6 12 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (7.64%) SOC Analyst
8 10 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (4.86%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.86%) Security Architect
12 6 (4.17%) Senior
13 5 (3.47%) Service Analyst
13 5 (3.47%) Service Management Analyst
13 5 (3.47%) VoIP Engineer
14 4 (2.78%) Developer
14 4 (2.78%) QA Engineer
14 4 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.56%) RESTful
2 5 (3.47%) SailPoint
3 4 (2.78%) Node.js
4 3 (2.08%) LDAP
5 2 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.69%) .NET
6 1 (0.69%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.69%) Middleware
6 1 (0.69%) OpenFin
6 1 (0.69%) Playwright
6 1 (0.69%) React
6 1 (0.69%) Reactive Extensions
6 1 (0.69%) RxJS
6 1 (0.69%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.69%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 42 (29.17%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.94%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.08%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.39%) PKI
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) Replication
7 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (30.56%) Windows
2 14 (9.72%) Linux
3 4 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.08%) Unix
5 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (29.17%) ITIL
2 38 (26.39%) Network Management
3 37 (25.69%) Service Management
4 36 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 36 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
5 33 (22.92%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (19.44%) ITSM
7 26 (18.06%) Agile
7 26 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (13.89%) DevOps
9 18 (12.50%) Resource Management
10 16 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
10 16 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 16 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 15 (10.42%) CI/CD
11 15 (10.42%) Knowledge Transfer
11 15 (10.42%) Penetration Testing
12 13 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (9.03%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.67%) Python
2 13 (9.03%) Java
3 7 (4.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.17%) Bash
4 6 (4.17%) Perl
5 3 (2.08%) C
5 3 (2.08%) C++
5 3 (2.08%) Ruby
5 3 (2.08%) SQL
6 1 (0.69%) C#
6 1 (0.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 104 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 58 (40.28%) DV Cleared
3 46 (31.94%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.64%) Degree
5 2 (1.39%) VCAP
5 2 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.69%) CISM
6 1 (0.69%) CISSP
6 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (24.31%) Government Security Classifications
2 14 (9.72%) QA
3 6 (4.17%) SLA
4 3 (2.08%) GRC
5 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (18.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (11.81%) vSphere
3 7 (4.86%) Docker
3 7 (4.86%) VMware NSX
4 5 (3.47%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.08%) KVM
5 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.69%) NFS
7 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (18.75%) SCOM
2 21 (14.58%) Terraform
3 20 (13.89%) Ansible
4 16 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 15 (10.42%) vCenter Server
6 6 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.17%) Puppet
7 4 (2.78%) Check_MK
7 4 (2.78%) Salt
7 4 (2.78%) ZABBIX
8 3 (2.08%) Nagios
9 2 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.39%) vRealize
10 1 (0.69%) Consul
10 1 (0.69%) Grafana
10 1 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (34.72%) Microsoft
2 35 (24.31%) Atlassian
2 35 (24.31%) VMware
3 7 (4.86%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.17%) CyberArk
5 5 (3.47%) Cisco
5 5 (3.47%) Oracle
5 5 (3.47%) SAP
6 4 (2.78%) Citrix
6 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.78%) Splunk
7 3 (2.08%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.08%) Google
7 3 (2.08%) New Relic
7 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.08%) Veeam
8 2 (1.39%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.39%) Dell
8 2 (1.39%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (1.39%) Mercator