Public Cloud Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Public Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud 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 244 228 225
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 -45
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 60 117 283
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.76% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 2.65% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 80 205
10th Percentile £446 £500 £468
25th Percentile £517 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £680 £741 £713
90th Percentile £751 £794 £813
UK median daily rate £609 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +1.46% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £53.25
25th Percentile - - £56.63
Median hourly rate - - £64.50
75th Percentile - - £67.13
90th Percentile - - £67.35
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £38.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +46.75% -47.26% +37.09%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Public 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 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Public Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Public 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 Public Cloud.

Public Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Public Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public 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 Public Cloud.

Public Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public 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 1 (1.67%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.67%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.67%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 35 (58.33%) AWS
2 26 (43.33%) Azure
3 13 (21.67%) PaaS
4 12 (20.00%) SaaS
4 12 (20.00%) Serverless
5 10 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (11.67%) GitHub
6 7 (11.67%) Power Platform
7 6 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) WAN
2 6 (10.00%) MPLS
2 6 (10.00%) VPN
3 4 (6.67%) DNS
4 3 (5.00%) BGP
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (5.00%) Firewall
4 3 (5.00%) NetScaler
4 3 (5.00%) NGFW
4 3 (5.00%) OSPF
4 3 (5.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.33%) DHCP
5 2 (3.33%) LAN
5 2 (3.33%) VLAN
5 2 (3.33%) VSAN
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (8.33%) MySQL
3 4 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.33%) CockroachDB
4 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) Adabas
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.00%) GitLab
3 5 (8.33%) JIRA
4 4 (6.67%) Git
5 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.67%) Gatling
6 1 (1.67%) JMeter
6 1 (1.67%) Maven
6 1 (1.67%) MLflow
6 1 (1.67%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.67%) TestDirector
6 1 (1.67%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (21.67%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Banking
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) Front Office
6 1 (1.67%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Publishing
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) Architect
2 16 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (16.67%) Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Cloud Architect
5 8 (13.33%) AWS Architect
5 8 (13.33%) AWS Solution Architect
6 6 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 6 (10.00%) Senior
6 6 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Azure Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Cloud Consultant
9 3 (5.00%) Consultant
9 3 (5.00%) Lead
9 3 (5.00%) Network Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Technical Architect
10 2 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) SAP CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) CSS
1 6 (10.00%) HTML
2 5 (8.33%) Kafka
2 5 (8.33%) REST
2 5 (8.33%) RESTful
3 4 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (6.67%) Spring
3 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.33%) Middleware
5 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.67%) JSON
5 1 (1.67%) Node.js
5 1 (1.67%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.67%) Swagger
5 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (10.00%) Low-Code
3 5 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.00%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.33%) Replication
7 1 (1.67%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.67%) Equities
7 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.67%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.67%) PKI
7 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Windows
3 4 (6.67%) Unix
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Agile
2 16 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 16 (26.67%) DevOps
3 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (23.33%) Microservices
4 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
5 12 (20.00%) Migration
6 10 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.33%) Analytics
8 8 (13.33%) Observability
9 7 (11.67%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
9 7 (11.67%) TDD
10 6 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (10.00%) IT Strategy
10 6 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.00%) SDLC
10 6 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
11 5 (8.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) Python
2 14 (23.33%) Java
3 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.67%) Go
5 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.00%) Bash
6 3 (5.00%) SQL
6 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.33%) C#
7 2 (3.33%) Ruby
8 1 (1.67%) C++
8 1 (1.67%) Clojure
8 1 (1.67%) Elixir
8 1 (1.67%) Groovy
8 1 (1.67%) Haskell
8 1 (1.67%) Natural
8 1 (1.67%) Perl
8 1 (1.67%) Rust
8 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.67%) OCP
4 4 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (5.00%) CCIE
5 3 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.33%) Degree
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.67%) CCNP
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.67%) MCSE
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) NIST
2 3 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (5.00%) NCSC
2 3 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Docker
2 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.67%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.67%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (26.67%) Terraform
2 14 (23.33%) Ansible
3 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.00%) Grafana
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.67%) Consul
6 1 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.67%) Kibana
6 1 (1.67%) Packer
6 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.67%) Puppet
6 1 (1.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) Cisco
2 7 (11.67%) VMware
3 6 (10.00%) OutSystems
4 4 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.67%) SAP
5 3 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (5.00%) Citrix
5 3 (5.00%) F5
5 3 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.00%) Zscaler
6 2 (3.33%) Databricks
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle
6 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.67%) Google
7 1 (1.67%) IBM
7 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.67%) TIBCO