Cloud Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 454 584
Rank change year-on-year +125 +130 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 12 14 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.080% 0.056% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.059% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 27
10th Percentile £500 £468 £450
25th Percentile £505 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% +26.67%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £625
90th Percentile £584 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.75
Median hourly rate - - £59.50
75th Percentile - - £63.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £59.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Specialist.

Cloud Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Cloud Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (41.67%) Oracle
4 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
5 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (25.00%) Cost Control
6 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (25.00%) SLA
6 3 (25.00%) SCCM
6 3 (25.00%) Time Management
6 3 (25.00%) Finance
6 3 (25.00%) VMware
6 3 (25.00%) ITIL
6 3 (25.00%) Windows
6 3 (25.00%) Citrix

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (8.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (25.00%) Cost Control
2 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) Time Management
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (8.33%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) SAP