Hybrid/Remote Enterprise Cloud Contract Job Trends

Enterprise Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 305 338
Rank change year-on-year 0 +33 +100
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 42 4 9
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.041% 0.061%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 1 4
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £510 - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £368 £445
Median % change year-on-year +63.04% -17.30% -28.80%
75th Percentile £694 - £458
90th Percentile £720 - -
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -10.83% +20.00% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile £86.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 - £31.50

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Enterprise Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,675 3,300 4,319
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.16% 33.91% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,929 2,204 2,922
10th Percentile £361 £340 £325
25th Percentile £431 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.14% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 86 189
10th Percentile £19.40 £17.15 £16.10
25th Percentile £28.00 £26.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £45.63 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -5.93% -7.62%
75th Percentile £77.00 £64.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £83.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year +37.16% -10.10% +58.55%

Enterprise Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Enterprise Cloud job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Enterprise Cloud
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Enterprise Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

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

Enterprise Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Enterprise Cloud
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 5 (11.90%) SAS
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) Azure
2 24 (57.14%) AWS
3 13 (30.95%) GCP
4 5 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (11.90%) IaaS
5 4 (9.52%) GitHub
6 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.14%) PaaS
6 3 (7.14%) SaaS
6 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Batch
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (4.76%) DHCP
3 2 (4.76%) Network Security
3 2 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Firewall
4 1 (2.38%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.38%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 5 (11.90%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 2 (4.76%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) Architect
2 8 (19.05%) Technical Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Network Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) SAS Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Security Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Lead
6 4 (9.52%) Security Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Analyst
7 3 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) OAuth
1 4 (9.52%) OAuth2
2 3 (7.14%) OpenID
2 3 (7.14%) SAML
3 2 (4.76%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (4.76%) Hugging Face
3 2 (4.76%) LangChain
3 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
3 2 (4.76%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.38%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.38%) JWT
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (11.90%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.76%) Autonomous Agent
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) CMDB
5 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.38%) PKI
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
1 17 (40.48%) Migration
2 16 (38.10%) DevOps
2 16 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (30.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 12 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 11 (26.19%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (19.05%) Project Delivery
8 7 (16.67%) Agile
8 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (14.29%) Analytics
9 6 (14.29%) Security Architecture
9 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (11.90%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (11.90%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (11.90%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (11.90%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.14%) Bicep
3 3 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (4.76%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 6 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 4 (9.52%) Degree
6 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.14%) SAS Certification
7 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.76%) CISSP
7 2 (4.76%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.38%) CCNA
8 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.38%) MCSE
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) NCSC
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Terraform
2 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.38%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) SAP
3 3 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 3 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) Citrix
4 2 (4.76%) Infoblox
4 2 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 2 (4.76%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow