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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 233 234
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -50
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 59 115 266
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.76% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.81% 2.66% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 78 196
10th Percentile £410 £500 £453
25th Percentile £510 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £600 £631
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -4.95% +5.21%
75th Percentile £650 £747 £700
90th Percentile £750 £806 £804
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -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 £75.50
% change year-on-year +46.75% -49.01% +41.78%

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 3,252 4,327 8,034
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.16% 28.56% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,223 2,950 5,650
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £430 £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 -2.33% -2.27% -
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 £64.63 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -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 5 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 (1.69%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.39%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.69%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.69%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 34 (57.63%) AWS
2 24 (40.68%) Azure
3 14 (23.73%) PaaS
4 12 (20.34%) SaaS
4 12 (20.34%) Serverless
5 10 (16.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (16.95%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (13.56%) Power Platform
7 7 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (11.86%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (11.86%) GitHub
8 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
10 4 (6.78%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (6.78%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) WAN
2 4 (6.78%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) MPLS
2 4 (6.78%) VPN
3 3 (5.08%) BGP
3 3 (5.08%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (5.08%) NGFW
3 3 (5.08%) OSPF
3 3 (5.08%) SD-WAN
3 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.39%) DHCP
4 2 (3.39%) Firewall
4 2 (3.39%) LAN
4 2 (3.39%) VLAN
4 2 (3.39%) VSAN
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.69%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) Relational Database
2 5 (8.47%) MySQL
3 4 (6.78%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.39%) CockroachDB
4 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.69%) Adabas
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.17%) GitLab
3 5 (8.47%) JIRA
4 4 (6.78%) Git
5 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.69%) Gatling
6 1 (1.69%) JMeter
6 1 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) MLflow
6 1 (1.69%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.69%) TestDirector
6 1 (1.69%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (23.73%) Finance
2 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Front Office
6 1 (1.69%) Law
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Architect
2 16 (27.12%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (20.34%) Developer
4 8 (13.56%) AWS Architect
4 8 (13.56%) AWS Solution Architect
4 8 (13.56%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (10.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 6 (10.17%) Senior
5 6 (10.17%) Technical Architect
6 5 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Cloud Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Lead
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Technical Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Java Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) CSS
1 7 (11.86%) HTML
2 6 (10.17%) Kafka
3 5 (8.47%) REST
3 5 (8.47%) RESTful
4 4 (6.78%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (6.78%) Spring
4 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.39%) JSON
5 2 (3.39%) Middleware
6 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.69%) Node.js
6 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.69%) Swagger
6 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (11.86%) Low-Code
3 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.08%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) Replication
6 1 (1.69%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.69%) Equities
6 1 (1.69%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.69%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.69%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Windows
3 4 (6.78%) Unix
4 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) Agile
2 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
2 16 (27.12%) DevOps
3 14 (23.73%) Microservices
4 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (18.64%) Containerisation
5 11 (18.64%) Event-Driven
5 11 (18.64%) Migration
6 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.86%) Analytics
7 7 (11.86%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (11.86%) Observability
7 7 (11.86%) Roadmaps
7 7 (11.86%) TDD
8 6 (10.17%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (10.17%) IT Strategy
8 6 (10.17%) SDLC
8 6 (10.17%) Technology Strategy
9 5 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) Java
2 13 (22.03%) Python
3 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.78%) Go
4 4 (6.78%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.78%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.08%) Bash
5 3 (5.08%) SQL
5 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.39%) C#
6 2 (3.39%) Ruby
7 1 (1.69%) C++
7 1 (1.69%) Clojure
7 1 (1.69%) Elixir
7 1 (1.69%) Groovy
7 1 (1.69%) Haskell
7 1 (1.69%) Natural
7 1 (1.69%) Perl
7 1 (1.69%) Rust
7 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.78%) OCP
4 4 (6.78%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (5.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.39%) Degree
7 1 (1.69%) CCIE
7 1 (1.69%) CCNP
7 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.69%) MCSE
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.69%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) NIST
2 3 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (5.08%) NCSC
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
2 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.78%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.69%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) Terraform
2 11 (18.64%) Ansible
3 10 (16.95%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.08%) Grafana
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.69%) Consul
6 1 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.69%) Kibana
6 1 (1.69%) Packer
6 1 (1.69%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.86%) OutSystems
2 7 (11.86%) VMware
3 5 (8.47%) Cisco
4 4 (6.78%) Palo Alto
4 4 (6.78%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.78%) SAP
5 2 (3.39%) Databricks
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle
5 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.69%) Citrix
6 1 (1.69%) F5
6 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.69%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.69%) Zscaler