Public Cloud Contracts

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 have cited Public Cloud over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Public Cloud UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	406	483	593
Rank change year-on-year	+77	+110
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud	207	173	49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.44%	0.32%	0.089%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.32%	0.96%	0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted	123	137	20
Median daily rate	£525	£500	£563
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£425	£400	£348
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£668	£608	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£500	£538
% change year-on-year	-	-6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	0	2
Median hourly rate	£65.00	-	£39.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£65.00	-	£39.00

Public Cloud is in the generic IT skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Generic IT Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	15648	17974	17487
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	33.21%	33.29%	31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted	10156	11793	11016
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£422
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+0.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£260	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£388	£375
% change year-on-year	+3.22%	+3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	490	595	619
Median hourly rate	£22.50	£23.00	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-2.17%	+21.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.50	£12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.26	£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£23.00	£18.88
% change year-on-year	+8.69%	+21.82%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Miscellaneous category.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Public Cloud over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Top 30 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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+60	203	£525	+5.00%	72
London	+9	98	£550	+10.00%	27
South East	+30	42	£440	+2.02%	18
Buckinghamshire	-	25	£411	-	2
West Midlands	+40	23	£500	-	4
Milton Keynes	-	20	£411	-	1
South West	+9	17	£275	-50.56%	5
City of London	-8	15	£525	+10.52%	7
North West	+26	11	£600	+33.33%	5
Bristol	0	8	£500	-14.89%	1
Shropshire	-	8	£496	-	2
Manchester	+19	7	£600	+20.00%	4
Berkshire	+15	7	£350	-6.66%	5
Surrey	+11	7	£475	-5.00%	4
Telford	-	6	£496	-	2
Birmingham	-	6	£550	-	1
East Midlands	-	5	£600	-
Plymouth	-	5	£215	-
Devon	-	5	£215	-
Nottinghamshire	-	4	£600	-
North East	+73	3	£550	+10.00%
Cheshire	+24	3	-	-	1
Durham	-	3	£550	-
Warrington	-	3	-	-
Staines	+7	2	£475	-5.00%	1
Wiltshire	+1	2	-	-	2
East of England	-4	2	£450	-25.00%	12
Midlands	-	2	-	-	4
Coventry	-	2	£494	-
Gloucestershire	-	2	-	-	1

Public Cloud
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Public Cloud also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Public Cloud.

1	260 (69.15%)	Amazon AWS
2	193 (51.33%)	Microsoft Azure
3	162 (43.09%)	DevOps
4	145 (38.56%)	Linux
5	134 (35.64%)	Agile Software Development
6	114 (30.32%)	Puppet
7	112 (29.79%)	Ansible
8	110 (29.26%)	Windows
9	103 (27.39%)	Python
10	91 (24.20%)	Configuration Management
11	88 (23.40%)	Opscode Chef
12	84 (22.34%)	Ruby
13	83 (22.07%)	Docker
14	82 (21.81%)	Finance
15	77 (20.48%)	Microsoft

16	73 (19.41%)	Microservices
17	65 (17.29%)	Security Cleared
18	63 (16.76%)	TDD
19	60 (15.96%)	Scrum
19	60 (15.96%)	Elasticsearch
20	58 (15.43%)	Migration
20	58 (15.43%)	.NET
20	58 (15.43%)	SQL Server
21	57 (15.16%)	Terraform
22	54 (14.36%)	Jenkins
23	52 (13.83%)	BDD
24	51 (13.56%)	NoSQL
24	51 (13.56%)	High Availability
25	50 (13.30%)	Bash Shell
26	49 (13.03%)	SC Cleared

Public Cloud
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	60 (15.96%)	Elasticsearch
2	38 (10.11%)	OpenStack
3	36 (9.57%)	Confluence
4	9 (2.39%)	IIS
5	7 (1.86%)	Apache
6	5 (1.33%)	Apache Spark
6	5 (1.33%)	SharePoint
7	4 (1.06%)	Tomcat
8	2 (0.53%)	Drupal
8	2 (0.53%)	MS Exchange
8	2 (0.53%)	Oracle Workflow
8	2 (0.53%)	SAS
8	2 (0.53%)	Skype for Business
8	2 (0.53%)	WebLogic
8	2 (0.53%)	WebSphere
9	1 (0.27%)	Apache Airflow
9	1 (0.27%)	Cloud Foundry
9	1 (0.27%)	CMS

Applications
1	15 (3.99%)	Microsoft Office
2	12 (3.19%)	Microsoft Project
3	1 (0.27%)	HipChat
3	1 (0.27%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	7 (1.86%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	3 (0.80%)	NetSuite
3	2 (0.53%)	Dynamics AX
4	1 (0.27%)	Dynamics CRM
4	1 (0.27%)	Odoo

Cloud Services
1	260 (69.15%)	Amazon AWS
2	193 (51.33%)	Microsoft Azure
3	38 (10.11%)	Amazon EC2
3	38 (10.11%)	GitHub
4	32 (8.51%)	Cloud Computing
5	31 (8.24%)	PaaS
6	30 (7.98%)	IaaS
7	19 (5.05%)	SaaS
8	15 (3.99%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	15 (3.99%)	Office 365
9	13 (3.46%)	Amazon S3
10	10 (2.66%)	AWS Lambda
11	9 (2.39%)	Google Cloud Platform
12	7 (1.86%)	OpenShift
13	4 (1.06%)	AWS OpsWorks
14	3 (0.80%)	Amazon CloudWatch
14	3 (0.80%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14	3 (0.80%)	Heroku
14	3 (0.80%)	Route 53
14	3 (0.80%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	38 (10.11%)	DNS
2	33 (8.78%)	VPN
3	26 (6.91%)	Firewall
4	23 (6.12%)	HTTP
5	17 (4.52%)	TCP/IP
6	16 (4.26%)	WAN
7	15 (3.99%)	LAN
8	13 (3.46%)	SSL
9	12 (3.19%)	Ethernet
10	11 (2.93%)	DHCP
11	10 (2.66%)	SMTP
11	10 (2.66%)	Wi-Fi
12	9 (2.39%)	Network Security
13	8 (2.13%)	Cisco IOS
13	8 (2.13%)	NX-OS
13	8 (2.13%)	SAN
13	8 (2.13%)	SSH
14	7 (1.86%)	IPsec
15	5 (1.33%)	FTP
15	5 (1.33%)	Internet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	58 (15.43%)	SQL Server
2	51 (13.56%)	NoSQL
3	35 (9.31%)	Amazon DynamoDB
3	35 (9.31%)	Hadoop
4	31 (8.24%)	PostgreSQL
5	18 (4.79%)	Relational Database
6	9 (2.39%)	Big Data
7	8 (2.13%)	Amazon RDS
7	8 (2.13%)	MySQL
8	6 (1.60%)	Apache Cassandra
8	6 (1.60%)	MongoDB
9	5 (1.33%)	Oracle Database
9	5 (1.33%)	Star Schema
10	4 (1.06%)	Data Warehouse
10	4 (1.06%)	Neo4j
11	3 (0.80%)	AllegroGraph
11	3 (0.80%)	Stardog
11	3 (0.80%)	Triplestore
12	2 (0.53%)	Apache Accumulo
12	2 (0.53%)	OrientDB

Development Applications
1	54 (14.36%)	Jenkins
2	43 (11.44%)	JIRA
3	36 (9.57%)	Git (software)
4	34 (9.04%)	TeamCity
5	25 (6.65%)	Octopus Deploy
6	10 (2.66%)	GitLab
7	9 (2.39%)	Maven
8	7 (1.86%)	Gradle
8	7 (1.86%)	Team Foundation Server
9	6 (1.60%)	Sonatype Nexus
10	5 (1.33%)	Ant
10	5 (1.33%)	Oracle Forms
10	5 (1.33%)	Subversion
11	4 (1.06%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	4 (1.06%)	Visual Studio Team System
12	3 (0.80%)	Cucumber
12	3 (0.80%)	Selenium
12	3 (0.80%)	Vagrant
12	3 (0.80%)	webpack
12	3 (0.80%)	YouTrack

General
1	82 (21.81%)	Finance
2	24 (6.38%)	Banking
3	15 (3.99%)	Telecoms
4	8 (2.13%)	Manufacturing
4	8 (2.13%)	Marketing
5	7 (1.86%)	Electronics
5	7 (1.86%)	Retail
6	4 (1.06%)	Investment Banking
6	4 (1.06%)	Legal
7	2 (0.53%)	Games
8	1 (0.27%)	Advertising
8	1 (0.27%)	Law

Job Titles
1	112 (29.79%)	Architect
2	56 (14.89%)	DevOps Engineer
3	50 (13.30%)	Cloud Architect
4	39 (10.37%)	Developer
5	35 (9.31%)	AWS Engineer
6	34 (9.04%)	Solutions Architect
7	33 (8.78%)	Cloud Engineer
8	31 (8.24%)	AWS DevOps
9	27 (7.18%)	Consultant
10	23 (6.12%)	AWS Developer
10	23 (6.12%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
10	23 (6.12%)	Senior Developer
11	22 (5.85%)	Project Manager
12	20 (5.32%)	Azure Engineer
12	20 (5.32%)	Senior Architect
13	18 (4.79%)	Azure Developer
14	17 (4.52%)	AWS Architect
14	17 (4.52%)	C# Developer
14	17 (4.52%)	Senior C# Developer
15	16 (4.26%)	Senior Solutions Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	58 (15.43%)	.NET
2	45 (11.97%)	AngularJS
3	43 (11.44%)	Web Services
4	42 (11.17%)	ASP.NET
5	41 (10.90%)	ASP.NET Web API
6	38 (10.11%)	ASP.NET MVC
7	31 (8.24%)	RabbitMQ
8	30 (7.98%)	Node.js
9	21 (5.59%)	Ember.js
10	11 (2.93%)	Middleware
10	11 (2.93%)	REST
11	10 (2.66%)	JSON
11	10 (2.66%)	RESTful
12	7 (1.86%)	.NET Framework
12	7 (1.86%)	Elastic Stack
13	6 (1.60%)	Kafka
14	5 (1.33%)	Akka
14	5 (1.33%)	HTML
14	5 (1.33%)	MSMQ
15	4 (1.06%)	ASP.NET Web Forms

Miscellaneous
1	43 (11.44%)	Hybrid Cloud
2	38 (10.11%)	Private Cloud
3	26 (6.91%)	Blog
4	25 (6.65%)	User Experience
5	22 (5.85%)	Data Centre
6	11 (2.93%)	Analytical Skills
7	10 (2.66%)	Enterprise Software
8	7 (1.86%)	Cloud Native
9	6 (1.60%)	CESG
9	6 (1.60%)	Management Information System
9	6 (1.60%)	PKI
10	5 (1.33%)	Linux Command Line
11	4 (1.06%)	Computer Science
11	4 (1.06%)	Enterprise Storage
11	4 (1.06%)	Grid Computing
11	4 (1.06%)	Virtual Team
12	3 (0.80%)	Greenfield Project
12	3 (0.80%)	Tandem
12	3 (0.80%)	Taxonomies
12	3 (0.80%)	Video Conferencing

Operating Systems
1	145 (38.56%)	Linux
2	110 (29.26%)	Windows
3	38 (10.11%)	CentOS
4	37 (9.84%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	34 (9.04%)	Unix
6	33 (8.78%)	Windows Server
7	11 (2.93%)	Windows Server 2008
8	8 (2.13%)	AIX
8	8 (2.13%)	Solaris
8	8 (2.13%)	Windows Server 2012
9	4 (1.06%)	Windows Server 2003
10	3 (0.80%)	Amazon Linux
10	3 (0.80%)	CoreOS
10	3 (0.80%)	Ubuntu
11	2 (0.53%)	HPUX
11	2 (0.53%)	Windows 10
12	1 (0.27%)	VMS
12	1 (0.27%)	Windows 7
12	1 (0.27%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	162 (43.09%)	DevOps
2	134 (35.64%)	Agile Software Development
3	91 (24.20%)	Configuration Management
4	73 (19.41%)	Microservices
5	63 (16.76%)	TDD
6	60 (15.96%)	Scrum
7	58 (15.43%)	Migration
8	52 (13.83%)	BDD
9	51 (13.56%)	High Availability
10	49 (13.03%)	Continuous Integration
11	47 (12.50%)	E-Commerce
12	42 (11.17%)	MVC
13	39 (10.37%)	ITIL
14	35 (9.31%)	Kanban
15	34 (9.04%)	Continuous Improvement
16	29 (7.71%)	Continuous Delivery
17	28 (7.45%)	Load Balancing
17	28 (7.45%)	Open Source
18	27 (7.18%)	CQRS
19	26 (6.91%)	Test Automation

Programming Languages
1	103 (27.39%)	Python
2	84 (22.34%)	Ruby
3	50 (13.30%)	Bash Shell
4	45 (11.97%)	C#
5	44 (11.70%)	Java
6	33 (8.78%)	JavaScript
7	31 (8.24%)	Scala
8	24 (6.38%)	Perl
9	21 (5.59%)	SQL
10	19 (5.05%)	PowerShell
11	15 (3.99%)	Go
12	13 (3.46%)	Shell Script
13	6 (1.60%)	C++
14	5 (1.33%)	PHP
15	3 (0.80%)	F#
15	3 (0.80%)	Groovy
15	3 (0.80%)	Korn
16	2 (0.53%)	Jython
16	2 (0.53%)	R
17	1 (0.27%)	VB.NET

Qualifications
1	65 (17.29%)	Security Cleared
2	49 (13.03%)	SC Cleared
3	21 (5.59%)	Degree
4	15 (3.99%)	Cisco Certification
5	10 (2.66%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
6	9 (2.39%)	ITIL Certification
7	8 (2.13%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
7	8 (2.13%)	CISSP
8	7 (1.86%)	CCIE
8	7 (1.86%)	DV Cleared
9	6 (1.60%)	CCSP
9	6 (1.60%)	CISM
10	5 (1.33%)	AWS Certification
10	5 (1.33%)	ISEB
10	5 (1.33%)	Microsoft Certification
11	4 (1.06%)	MCSE
11	4 (1.06%)	PMI Certification
11	4 (1.06%)	PMP
12	3 (0.80%)	CCNP
12	3 (0.80%)	EMC Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	28 (7.45%)	QA
2	16 (4.26%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	11 (2.93%)	COBIT
4	4 (1.06%)	ISO 22301
5	3 (0.80%)	PCI DSS
6	2 (0.53%)	GCP
7	1 (0.27%)	FedRAMP
7	1 (0.27%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)

System Software
1	83 (22.07%)	Docker
2	29 (7.71%)	Active Directory
3	15 (3.99%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	13 (3.46%)	Virtual Machines
5	11 (2.93%)	LXC
6	8 (2.13%)	GPFS
7	7 (1.86%)	Hyper-V
8	4 (1.06%)	iptables
8	4 (1.06%)	ISA Server
8	4 (1.06%)	XenApp
9	3 (0.80%)	XenServer
10	2 (0.53%)	pfSense
10	2 (0.53%)	vCloud
10	2 (0.53%)	vSphere
10	2 (0.53%)	Xen
11	1 (0.27%)	Ceph

Systems Management
1	114 (30.32%)	Puppet
2	112 (29.79%)	Ansible
3	88 (23.40%)	Opscode Chef
4	57 (15.16%)	Terraform
5	32 (8.51%)	Kubernetes
6	15 (3.99%)	ZABBIX
7	10 (2.66%)	Mesos
7	10 (2.66%)	SCCM
8	9 (2.39%)	SCOM
9	6 (1.60%)	Rundeck
10	5 (1.33%)	Graphite
11	4 (1.06%)	Docker Swarm
11	4 (1.06%)	Salt
11	4 (1.06%)	SCOrch
12	3 (0.80%)	Kibana
12	3 (0.80%)	logstash
12	3 (0.80%)	Nagios
12	3 (0.80%)	Packer
13	2 (0.53%)	NetBackup
13	2 (0.53%)	SnapMirror

Vendors
1	77 (20.48%)	Microsoft
2	48 (12.77%)	VMware
3	35 (9.31%)	Red Hat
4	30 (7.98%)	Google
5	22 (5.85%)	Cisco
5	22 (5.85%)	Oracle
6	19 (5.05%)	Splunk
7	12 (3.19%)	SAP
8	11 (2.93%)	Citrix
9	10 (2.66%)	SevOne
10	9 (2.39%)	HP
10	9 (2.39%)	IBM
11	8 (2.13%)	CheckPoint
12	7 (1.86%)	Atlassian
13	5 (1.33%)	EMC
13	5 (1.33%)	Palo Alto
14	4 (1.06%)	Dell
14	4 (1.06%)	SaltStack
15	3 (0.80%)	NetApp
15	3 (0.80%)	Remedy