Private Cloud Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 308 308
Rank change year-on-year +40 0 +91
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 37 36 169
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.24% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.13% 0.83% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 117
10th Percentile £478 £460 £440
25th Percentile £553 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £688
90th Percentile - £656 £750
UK median daily rate £615 £538 £615
% change year-on-year +14.31% -12.52% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% -17.65%
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +47.37%

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 3,284 4,352 8,034
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.30% 28.58% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,239 2,976 5,650
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £684
90th Percentile £825 £800 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 195 154
10th Percentile £18.33 £15.45 £19.00
25th Percentile £24.50 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £41.00 £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.46% -11.82% +23.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.14 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.83% +34.04% -18.24%

Private Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Private Cloud trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Private Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Private Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Private Cloud.

Private Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
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 8 (21.62%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.41%) SAP SD
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) Azure
1 4 (10.81%) OpenShift
2 3 (8.11%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) IaaS
2 3 (8.11%) PaaS
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.41%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Firewall
2 5 (13.51%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (13.51%) Network Security
2 5 (13.51%) VPN
3 1 (2.70%) BGP
3 1 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.70%) IPv6
3 1 (2.70%) MPLS
3 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) CockroachDB
1 2 (5.41%) MySQL
1 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 6 (16.22%) Finance
2 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Architect
1 8 (21.62%) Senior
2 7 (18.92%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Build Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Build Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) CyberArk Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) SAP Consultant
8 1 (2.70%) Database Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Implementation Consultant
8 1 (2.70%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Kafka
1 2 (5.41%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.51%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) Replication
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) VMS
3 1 (2.70%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Migration
2 11 (29.73%) High Availability
2 11 (29.73%) Identity Access Management
3 10 (27.03%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (18.92%) DevOps
4 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (13.51%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
5 5 (13.51%) Open Source
6 4 (10.81%) Configuration Management
6 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (10.81%) Network Architecture
6 4 (10.81%) Storage Management
7 3 (8.11%) Benchmarking
7 3 (8.11%) Low Latency
7 3 (8.11%) Resource Management
7 3 (8.11%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.41%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) RHCSA
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.51%) Docker
2 5 (13.51%) Hyper-V
2 5 (13.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Ansible
2 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) VMware
2 6 (16.22%) Okta
2 6 (16.22%) Red Hat
3 5 (13.51%) Fortinet
4 4 (10.81%) SAP
5 3 (8.11%) CyberArk
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle
6 1 (2.70%) Confluent
6 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.70%) Siemens