cloud-init Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

cloud-init
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring cloud-init skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited cloud-init over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 - 470
Rank change year-on-year - - +146
Contract jobs citing cloud-init 11 0 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% - 0.027%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £690 - £670
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.66%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £715
UK median daily rate £725 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +3.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

cloud-init falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing cloud-init as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

cloud-init trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing cloud-init.

cloud-init daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 5 (45.45%) nginx
1 5 (45.45%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (72.73%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (63.64%) AWS Fargate
3 7 (63.64%) Entra ID
3 7 (63.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
1 7 (63.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) GitLab
1 11 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Senior
1 10 (90.91%) Senior DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (63.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Kafka
1 7 (63.64%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) CentOS
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (81.82%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
3 7 (63.64%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 7 (63.64%) Identity Management
3 7 (63.64%) Observability
3 7 (63.64%) Secrets Management
3 7 (63.64%) Static Application Security Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (9.09%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Bash
1 11 (100.00%) Go
1 11 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Certification
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) NCSC
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Packer
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
3 7 (63.64%) Consul
3 7 (63.64%) Grafana
3 7 (63.64%) Istio
3 7 (63.64%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (63.64%) linkerd
3 7 (63.64%) Prometheus
3 7 (63.64%) Rancher
3 7 (63.64%) ZABBIX
4 5 (45.45%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Okta
1 7 (63.64%) Splunk
2 5 (45.45%) Apple
2 5 (45.45%) ESET