Public Cloud Contracts

Public Cloud
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 285 246
Rank change year-on-year -39 -39 -64
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 230 338 602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.78% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.09% 2.58% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 234 412
10th Percentile £404 £447 £425
25th Percentile £475 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £628
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.37% +4.58%
75th Percentile £694 £734 £750
90th Percentile £751 £838 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £594 £621
% change year-on-year -11.62% -4.39% +12.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £45.25 £38.28 £70.00
25th Percentile £49.38 £40.56 £74.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £46.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -40.71% +44.44%
75th Percentile £64.38 £52.06 £79.00
90th Percentile £67.75 £54.43 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £38.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -50.64% +92.59%

All Generic Skills
UK

Public 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 11,019 13,114 18,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.60% 30.28% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,823 8,318 12,820
10th Percentile £300 £281 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 908 571
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £12.56
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.02 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +41.26% -5.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £27.00
% change year-on-year -16.26% +32.69% +25.58%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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 -37 171 £613 +6.65% 291
London +24 111 £675 +19.05% 157
UK excluding London -54 80 £525 -11.62% 149
Work from Home -29 50 £538 -10.42% 165
Scotland +6 26 £500 -11.15% 12
North of England -37 23 £475 -30.91% 60
South East +19 15 £600 +14.29% 37
North West -31 15 £506 -36.75% 32
Yorkshire +4 7 £448 -18.64% 22
Midlands +1 7 £537 -12.33% 17
East of England +32 5 £550 - 1
East Midlands -3 5 £475 +0.53% 4
South West +11 3 £550 -8.33% 18
Wales -5 3 £405 -20.98% 2
West Midlands -1 2 £581 -16.96% 13
North East -1 1 - - 6

Public 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 7 (3.04%) Apache
2 5 (2.17%) Confluence
3 4 (1.74%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.30%) Oracle Service Bus
4 3 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.87%) IIS
5 2 (0.87%) nginx
5 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.43%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Notion
2 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.17%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.74%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.74%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.30%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.87%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.87%) Maximo
5 2 (0.87%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.43%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.43%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.43%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.43%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 126 (54.78%) AWS
2 107 (46.52%) Azure
3 50 (21.74%) GitHub
4 46 (20.00%) GCP
5 31 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (13.48%) SaaS
6 22 (9.57%) PaaS
7 21 (9.13%) Serverless
8 17 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (6.52%) Amazon S3
10 15 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.52%) OpenShift
11 13 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (5.22%) Power Platform
13 10 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.35%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (3.04%) Amazon Glacier
14 7 (3.04%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.83%) WAN
2 14 (6.09%) Firewall
2 14 (6.09%) VPN
3 11 (4.78%) DNS
4 10 (4.35%) LAN
5 6 (2.61%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.17%) MPLS
6 5 (2.17%) VLAN
7 4 (1.74%) BGP
8 3 (1.30%) OSPF
9 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.87%) DHCP
9 2 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.87%) HTTP
9 2 (0.87%) IPsec
9 2 (0.87%) Multicast
9 2 (0.87%) Network Security
9 2 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.87%) SMTP
9 2 (0.87%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.91%) Big Data
2 9 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.48%) MySQL
4 7 (3.04%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.04%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.17%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.17%) Power BI
6 4 (1.74%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.30%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.30%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.30%) Redis
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.87%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 51 (22.17%) Jenkins
2 27 (11.74%) Git
3 25 (10.87%) JIRA
4 19 (8.26%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.52%) GitLab
6 12 (5.22%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.78%) IntelliJ
7 11 (4.78%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (4.35%) Artifactory
8 10 (4.35%) CircleCI
8 10 (4.35%) PyCharm
8 10 (4.35%) Visual Studio
9 5 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.74%) Subversion
11 3 (1.30%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.87%) webpack
12 2 (0.87%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 72 (31.30%) Finance
2 61 (26.52%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.57%) Banking
4 22 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.48%) Legal
8 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.74%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.74%) Local Government
10 4 (1.74%) Military
11 3 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.30%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.30%) Law
11 3 (1.30%) Publishing
11 3 (1.30%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Front Office
12 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (37.83%) Architect
2 39 (16.96%) Senior
3 37 (16.09%) Solutions Architect
4 28 (12.17%) Developer
5 24 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 22 (9.57%) Senior Architect
8 19 (8.26%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (7.83%) Consultant
10 15 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (6.09%) Lead
12 12 (5.22%) Analyst
12 12 (5.22%) AWS Architect
12 12 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) Azure Architect
13 11 (4.78%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 11 (4.78%) Senior Technical Architect
14 10 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
15 9 (3.91%) Python Engineer
15 9 (3.91%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.52%) Kafka
2 14 (6.09%) RESTful
3 13 (5.65%) REST
4 12 (5.22%) CSS
4 12 (5.22%) HTML
4 12 (5.22%) Middleware
5 10 (4.35%) React
6 9 (3.91%) Spring
7 8 (3.48%) .NET
7 8 (3.48%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.04%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (2.61%) Node.js
10 4 (1.74%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (1.74%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.74%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.74%) JSON
10 4 (1.74%) LangChain
10 4 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.39%) Private Cloud
3 15 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (5.65%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.48%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (3.04%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.17%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.30%) CMDB
10 3 (1.30%) Derivative
10 3 (1.30%) Replication
11 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.57%) Linux
2 30 (13.04%) Windows
3 8 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.04%) Unix
4 7 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.30%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (37.83%) Agile
2 80 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 71 (30.87%) DevOps
4 58 (25.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (18.70%) Microservices
6 41 (17.83%) Roadmaps
7 35 (15.22%) SDLC
8 34 (14.78%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (14.35%) Containerisation
10 29 (12.61%) Test Automation
11 26 (11.30%) Event-Driven
12 25 (10.87%) Migration
12 25 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (10.87%) Software Engineering
13 23 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 21 (9.13%) TDD
14 21 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (7.39%) Architectural Patterns
15 17 (7.39%) IT Strategy
16 16 (6.96%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 71 (30.87%) Python
2 63 (27.39%) Java
3 24 (10.43%) JavaScript
3 24 (10.43%) TypeScript
4 20 (8.70%) C#
4 20 (8.70%) Go
5 12 (5.22%) SQL
6 10 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.91%) Bash
8 8 (3.48%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.61%) Scala
9 6 (2.61%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.17%) Clojure
10 5 (2.17%) Elixir
10 5 (2.17%) Rust
11 4 (1.74%) Groovy
12 3 (1.30%) ABAP
12 3 (1.30%) Perl
12 3 (1.30%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
13 2 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.74%) Degree
4 12 (5.22%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.17%) CCIE
9 5 (2.17%) OCP
9 5 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.74%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.87%) CCNP
12 2 (0.87%) JNCIA
12 2 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.43%) CCDP
13 1 (0.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.48%) NIST
1 8 (3.48%) QA
2 6 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.74%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.87%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (13.48%) Docker
2 14 (6.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.35%) vSphere
4 4 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.30%) Lustre
5 3 (1.30%) vCloud
5 3 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.30%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.87%) Firmware
6 2 (0.87%) NFS
7 1 (0.43%) HDFS
7 1 (0.43%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 75 (32.61%) Terraform
2 68 (29.57%) Kubernetes
3 55 (23.91%) Ansible
4 19 (8.26%) Grafana
5 12 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.17%) Kibana
6 5 (2.17%) Puppet
7 4 (1.74%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.30%) Karpenter
8 3 (1.30%) Podman
8 3 (1.30%) PowerCLI
8 3 (1.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.87%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.43%) CASB
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.43%) Consul
10 1 (0.43%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 43 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.87%) SAP
3 18 (7.83%) Google
4 16 (6.96%) Cisco
4 16 (6.96%) VMware
5 13 (5.65%) Oracle
6 11 (4.78%) Red Hat
7 10 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.48%) F5
8 8 (3.48%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.48%) IBM
9 7 (3.04%) OutSystems
10 6 (2.61%) Citrix
10 6 (2.61%) MuleSoft
11 5 (2.17%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.17%) Splunk
11 5 (2.17%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.74%) Databricks
13 3 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.30%) Palo Alto