Hybrid/Remote Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends

Cloud Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 216 249
Rank change year-on-year -42 +33 +98
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 60 102 144
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 0.84% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.17% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 81
10th Percentile £406 £386 £263
25th Percentile £429 £460 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £681 £747 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £19.85 £22.73
25th Percentile - £21.88 £23.06
Median hourly rate - £25.50 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year - -0.97% -26.43%
75th Percentile - £26.13 £28.06
90th Percentile - £26.35 £28.18
UK median hourly rate £40.31 £24.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +67.94% +28.00% -46.43%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,362 4,693 6,830
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.83% 38.68% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 3,149 4,943
10th Percentile £325 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 51 88
10th Percentile £17.73 £19.30 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.69 £46.78
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -21.56% +33.65%
75th Percentile £65.22 £63.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.00 £88.23
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Computing and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Cloud Computing daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (5.00%) Apache
2 3 (5.00%) JBoss
2 3 (5.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.33%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.67%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Weka
2 2 (3.33%) Navisworks
2 2 (3.33%) Revit
3 1 (1.67%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (1.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (53.33%) AWS
2 27 (45.00%) Azure
3 12 (20.00%) GCP
4 7 (11.67%) Snowflake
5 6 (10.00%) GitHub
6 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.67%) IaaS
6 4 (6.67%) PaaS
6 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.67%) Serverless
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.00%) SaaS
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.33%) Azure App Service
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Firewall
2 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.67%) VPN
4 3 (5.00%) DNS
4 3 (5.00%) Network Security
5 2 (3.33%) HTTP
5 2 (3.33%) Internet
5 2 (3.33%) LAN
5 2 (3.33%) WAN
5 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.67%) DHCP
6 1 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Power BI
1 4 (6.67%) Tableau
2 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.33%) Big Data
3 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.67%) Metadata
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (8.33%) JIRA
3 3 (5.00%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.00%) IntelliJ
3 3 (5.00%) JUnit
3 3 (5.00%) Selenium
4 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.67%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (1.67%) GitLab
5 1 (1.67%) MLflow
5 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.00%) Finance
3 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.33%) Banking
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (1.67%) Electronics
6 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Military
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 9 (15.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 7 (11.67%) Senior
3 5 (8.33%) Architect
3 5 (8.33%) Consultant
3 5 (8.33%) Developer
3 5 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Lead
4 4 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Migration Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) PyTorch
1 7 (11.67%) TensorFlow
2 5 (8.33%) REST
3 4 (6.67%) J2EE
3 4 (6.67%) NumPy
3 4 (6.67%) Pandas
3 4 (6.67%) scikit-learn
3 4 (6.67%) XML
4 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (5.00%) EJB
4 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (5.00%) HTML
4 3 (5.00%) HTML5
4 3 (5.00%) J2SE
4 3 (5.00%) JSON
4 3 (5.00%) Play Framework
4 3 (5.00%) RESTful
4 3 (5.00%) SOAP
4 3 (5.00%) Spring
4 3 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.67%) Grid Computing
3 4 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.33%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Omics
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.67%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (1.67%) Life Science
6 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Unix
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) Android
3 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Agile
1 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (33.33%) DevOps
3 16 (26.67%) AI
4 14 (23.33%) Containerisation
4 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (23.33%) Machine Learning
5 13 (21.67%) Computer Science
5 13 (21.67%) Generative AI
5 13 (21.67%) Migration
5 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.33%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (18.33%) Data Engineering
6 11 (18.33%) LLM
6 11 (18.33%) Statistics
7 10 (16.67%) Analytics
8 9 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 9 (15.00%) Data Governance
8 9 (15.00%) Microservices
8 9 (15.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.67%) Python
2 14 (23.33%) SQL
3 8 (13.33%) Bash
4 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.00%) Java
6 4 (6.67%) Scala
7 2 (3.33%) Bicep
7 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.67%) R
8 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Degree
2 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) Master's Degree
5 4 (6.67%) PhD
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.33%) OCP
7 2 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (3.33%) PgMP
7 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.33%) PMP
8 1 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.67%) CCNP
8 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) ISO 19650
1 2 (3.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.67%) NIST
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 21 (35.00%) Docker
2 6 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.67%) GPFS
3 4 (6.67%) Lustre
3 4 (6.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 12 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (8.33%) Puppet
3 3 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.67%) vRealize
5 1 (1.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Databricks
2 10 (16.67%) Google
3 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.67%) VMware
5 3 (5.00%) NetApp
5 3 (5.00%) webMethods
6 2 (3.33%) Autodesk
6 2 (3.33%) Cognos
6 2 (3.33%) Dataiku
6 2 (3.33%) IBM
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle
6 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.33%) Sage
6 2 (3.33%) Samsung
7 1 (1.67%) Apple
7 1 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) Workday
7 1 (1.67%) Zscaler