Hybrid/Remote Private Cloud Contract Job Trends

Private Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 270 326
Rank change year-on-year -12 +56 +37
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 36 46 65
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 1.23% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 45
10th Percentile £406 £358 £463
25th Percentile £463 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -6.12%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £650
90th Percentile £731 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate £69.38 £75.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.45% +3.57%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Private 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 3,570 3,750 5,369
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.05% 30.91% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,237 2,401 3,720
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £420 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £672
90th Percentile £750 £808 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 68 124
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.37 £19.99
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £40.00 £45.63
Median % change year-on-year +13.65% -12.34% -17.93%
75th Percentile £65.75 £66.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.28
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +21.43%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Private 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 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (11.11%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.78%) JBoss
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.78%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Weka
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (8.33%) Primavera
3 2 (5.56%) SAP MII
3 2 (5.56%) SAP VC
4 1 (2.78%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (11.11%) GCP
3 4 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) IaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 3 (8.33%) Skype
2 3 (8.33%) VSAN
3 2 (5.56%) BGP
3 2 (5.56%) DNS
3 2 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (5.56%) IPv6
3 2 (5.56%) MPLS
3 2 (5.56%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.56%) VXLAN
3 2 (5.56%) WAN
4 1 (2.78%) HTTP
4 1 (2.78%) NGFW
4 1 (2.78%) SSL
4 1 (2.78%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) RStudio
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Social Science
5 1 (2.78%) Automotive
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Architect
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Consultant
2 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Project Planner
4 3 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) SAP Architect
5 2 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) SAP PP Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) SAP PP Functional Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) ModSecurity
1 2 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (2.78%) JSON
2 1 (2.78%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) pytest
2 1 (2.78%) RAML
2 1 (2.78%) React
2 1 (2.78%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.78%) SOAP
2 1 (2.78%) Web Services
2 1 (2.78%) WSDL
2 1 (2.78%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.89%) Public Cloud
3 4 (11.11%) Grid Computing
3 4 (11.11%) PKI
4 3 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.56%) LIMS
5 2 (5.56%) PACS
5 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.78%) FMCG
6 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (5.56%) Unix
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) DevOps
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
2 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 7 (19.44%) Migration
5 5 (13.89%) Configuration Management
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 3 (8.33%) Critical Path Analysis
7 3 (8.33%) Dependency Management
7 3 (8.33%) Design Patterns
7 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.33%) Service Management
7 3 (8.33%) Test Assurance
7 3 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (5.56%) Batch Management
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (5.56%) Production Planning
8 2 (5.56%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) Bash
2 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Perl
4 1 (2.78%) ABAP
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) NCSC
1 3 (8.33%) P3O
2 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (11.11%) Docker
3 4 (11.11%) GPFS
3 4 (11.11%) Lustre
3 4 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (25.00%) Ansible
2 9 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 3 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (8.33%) OPNET
4 3 (8.33%) Rancher
5 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.78%) Grafana
5 1 (2.78%) Kibana
5 1 (2.78%) Packer
5 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) vRealize
5 1 (2.78%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) VMware
2 5 (13.89%) SAP
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Citrix
4 2 (5.56%) F5
4 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.78%) Ariba
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow