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 have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 231 185
Rank change year-on-year -75 -46 +77
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 328 697 1,417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 1.17% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 3.50% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 473 898
10th Percentile £450 £439 £438
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £744 £709
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £566 £575
% change year-on-year +5.96% -1.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
10th Percentile - £60.00 £42.33
25th Percentile £36.75 £62.50 £45.81
Median hourly rate £38.50 £73.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -47.26% +37.09% -7.39%
75th Percentile £40.25 £78.00 £62.31
90th Percentile - £78.40 £66.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -50.64% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Public 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 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
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%

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 27 April 2024.

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
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 27 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 -59 266 £610 -2.40% 176
UK excluding London +18 183 £600 +5.96% 119
London -70 119 £593 -8.85% 75
Work from Home -15 114 £600 -5.88% 95
North of England -6 63 £750 +32.45% 37
North West +29 51 £850 +41.67% 18
Scotland +48 34 £625 +19.05% 20
South West +6 28 £600 +9.09% 25
South East +14 27 £595 +20.20% 19
Wales +30 19 £513 -7.87% 3
Midlands +2 13 £700 - 11
West Midlands +12 12 £700 - 7
Yorkshire -18 11 £538 -2.27% 16
East Midlands +8 1 - - 4
East of England +3 1 - - 2
North East -4 1 £525 -32.26% 3

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 18 (5.49%) Confluence
2 10 (3.05%) Apache
3 8 (2.44%) Anypoint
4 7 (2.13%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.52%) nginx
7 3 (0.91%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.91%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.61%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.61%) Shopify
4 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.30%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.30%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 162 (49.39%) Azure
2 149 (45.43%) AWS
3 58 (17.68%) GCP
4 20 (6.10%) Serverless
5 19 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (5.79%) PaaS
6 18 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (5.49%) SaaS
7 17 (5.18%) Amazon S3
7 17 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (5.18%) GitHub
8 15 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (4.27%) OpenShift
10 13 (3.96%) Entra ID
11 11 (3.35%) Azure AKS
11 11 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (3.05%) IaaS
13 9 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.74%) Apigee
14 8 (2.44%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.38%) VPN
2 53 (16.16%) Firewall
3 24 (7.32%) WAN
4 17 (5.18%) LAN
5 10 (3.05%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.74%) DNS
7 8 (2.44%) MPLS
8 7 (2.13%) BGP
8 7 (2.13%) DSL
8 7 (2.13%) Network Security
9 5 (1.52%) SSL
10 4 (1.22%) Internet
10 4 (1.22%) OSPF
10 4 (1.22%) SAN
10 4 (1.22%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.22%) Wireless
11 3 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.91%) DHCP
11 3 (0.91%) IOS XR
11 3 (0.91%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 23 (7.01%) Relational Database
3 19 (5.79%) MySQL
4 14 (4.27%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.35%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.52%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.22%) Big Data
9 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.22%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.22%) Redis
9 4 (1.22%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.91%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 42 (12.80%) Jenkins
2 33 (10.06%) Git
3 22 (6.71%) JIRA
4 18 (5.49%) GitLab
5 8 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.13%) Burp Suite
7 6 (1.83%) AppScan
7 6 (1.83%) JMeter
7 6 (1.83%) Selenium
7 6 (1.83%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.52%) Maven
8 5 (1.52%) Spinnaker
9 4 (1.22%) JUnit
9 4 (1.22%) Mockito
9 4 (1.22%) Subversion
10 3 (0.91%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.30%) VisualWorks
General
1 99 (30.18%) Finance
2 66 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 37 (11.28%) Banking
4 30 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.79%) Billing
7 17 (5.18%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.44%) Legal
10 7 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.83%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.52%) Marketing
13 3 (0.91%) Automotive
13 3 (0.91%) Electronics
13 3 (0.91%) Police
13 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Retail
14 2 (0.61%) Aviation
14 2 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 95 (28.96%) Architect
2 54 (16.46%) Technical Architect
3 42 (12.80%) Senior
4 41 (12.50%) Lead
5 32 (9.76%) Developer
6 30 (9.15%) Lead Architect
6 30 (9.15%) Technical Leader
7 21 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (6.10%) Consultant
9 17 (5.18%) Cloud Architect
9 17 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (4.27%) Java Developer
11 13 (3.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.66%) Commercial Manager
12 12 (3.66%) Contracts Manager
12 12 (3.66%) DBA
12 12 (3.66%) Java Engineer
12 12 (3.66%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.80%) Node.js
2 28 (8.54%) REST
3 25 (7.62%) Spring
4 19 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (5.18%) Spring Boot
6 16 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 16 (4.88%) Kafka
7 12 (3.66%) CSS
7 12 (3.66%) HTML
8 11 (3.35%) JPA
8 11 (3.35%) Middleware
8 11 (3.35%) OAuth
9 10 (3.05%) Swagger
10 9 (2.74%) JSON
10 9 (2.74%) RESTful
11 8 (2.44%) .NET
11 8 (2.44%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.44%) OpenAPI
11 8 (2.44%) SOAP
12 6 (1.83%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.84%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.18%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.66%) PKI
5 11 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.35%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.35%) NHS
5 11 (3.35%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.35%) Virtual Team
6 10 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.05%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.22%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (1.22%) Derivative
9 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.22%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.22%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.91%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 87 (26.52%) Windows
2 77 (23.48%) Linux
3 49 (14.94%) Windows Server
4 34 (10.37%) Android
4 34 (10.37%) Apple iOS
5 19 (5.79%) Unix
6 7 (2.13%) VMS
7 6 (1.83%) CentOS
8 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.91%) zOS
10 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (42.07%) Agile
2 120 (36.59%) DevOps
3 105 (32.01%) CI/CD
4 54 (16.46%) Microservices
5 46 (14.02%) Security Architecture
6 42 (12.80%) Risk Management
7 39 (11.89%) Roadmaps
8 38 (11.59%) Zero Trust
9 37 (11.28%) Design Patterns
10 34 (10.37%) Containerisation
10 34 (10.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (10.37%) Migration
11 33 (10.06%) Mobile Device Management
12 30 (9.15%) Threat Intelligence
13 28 (8.54%) Configuration Management
13 28 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (8.54%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 27 (8.23%) Change Control
14 27 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (7.93%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 65 (19.82%) Python
2 51 (15.55%) Java
3 44 (13.41%) SQL
4 29 (8.84%) PowerShell
5 28 (8.54%) Bash
6 16 (4.88%) Go
7 15 (4.57%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.27%) Ruby
9 8 (2.44%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.13%) C#
11 6 (1.83%) C
12 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.22%) C++
13 4 (1.22%) Groovy
13 4 (1.22%) Perl
14 3 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.91%) PHP
15 2 (0.61%) Bicep
15 2 (0.61%) Haskell
15 2 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 55 (16.77%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.10%) Degree
4 11 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (2.74%) SANS
6 7 (2.13%) CISSP
6 7 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.83%) CCNP
7 6 (1.83%) CISM
7 6 (1.83%) CRISC
8 5 (1.52%) CCIE
9 4 (1.22%) HND
9 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.22%) MCSE
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.61%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.15%) QA
2 16 (4.88%) SLA
3 12 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.35%) NCSC
5 9 (2.74%) NIST
6 4 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.91%) HL7
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.30%) COBIT
9 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (17.68%) Docker
2 21 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.83%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.22%) vCloud
7 3 (0.91%) vSphere
8 1 (0.30%) Ceph
8 1 (0.30%) Firmware
8 1 (0.30%) NFS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 68 (20.73%) Kubernetes
2 61 (18.60%) Terraform
3 55 (16.77%) Ansible
4 23 (7.01%) Progress Chef
5 22 (6.71%) Grafana
5 22 (6.71%) Puppet
6 20 (6.10%) Prometheus
7 15 (4.57%) Nagios
8 14 (4.27%) Graylog
9 9 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (2.13%) CFEngine
10 7 (2.13%) Nessus
10 7 (2.13%) PowerBroker
11 6 (1.83%) HP Fortify
11 6 (1.83%) Istio
11 6 (1.83%) WebInspect
12 5 (1.52%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (1.22%) Trend Micro Deep Security
14 3 (0.91%) OPNET
Vendors
1 58 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.45%) SAP
3 30 (9.15%) VMware
4 29 (8.84%) Google
5 27 (8.23%) Oracle
6 26 (7.93%) Splunk
7 16 (4.88%) Cisco
8 12 (3.66%) F5
9 11 (3.35%) Atlassian
10 10 (3.05%) WSO2
11 9 (2.74%) Salesforce
12 8 (2.44%) Checkmarx
12 8 (2.44%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.44%) MuleSoft
12 8 (2.44%) Palo Alto
12 8 (2.44%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.83%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.83%) Databricks
13 6 (1.83%) Veracode
13 6 (1.83%) Zscaler