Public Cloud Contracts in Central London

Public Cloud
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 124 162
Rank change year-on-year +29 +38 -17
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 34 26 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.45% 0.86% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.64% 2.65% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 35
10th Percentile £421 £501 £491
25th Percentile £542 £516 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +10.17%
75th Percentile £670 £673 £738
90th Percentile £777 £819 £815
London median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 732 980 1,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.32% 32.44% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 644 1,158
10th Percentile £362 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £600 £576
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% +4.12% -3.96%
75th Percentile £711 £725 £725
90th Percentile £838 £829 £825
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 33
10th Percentile £25.72 £17.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £26.20 £18.93 £20.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -30.69% +44.29%
75th Percentile £59.75 £46.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £65.60 £81.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year +16.67% +13.21% -18.46%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Central London

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Central London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Central London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Central London

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in Central London

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +34 33 £600 +9.09% 4
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
Public Cloud
London

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (8.82%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (8.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (8.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) Azure
2 11 (32.35%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) GCP
3 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub
5 3 (8.82%) Azure API Management
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Functions
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Storage
5 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.82%) PowerApps
5 3 (8.82%) Serverless
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.88%) Datadog
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.88%) IaaS
6 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) VPN
3 3 (8.82%) Network Security
4 1 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (2.94%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.94%) IPsec
4 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.94%) MPLS
4 1 (2.94%) NGFW
4 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.94%) SSL
4 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.82%) Power BI
3 2 (5.88%) Big Data
3 2 (5.88%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.88%) SAP BW
3 2 (5.88%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.94%) DocumentDB
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Redis
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.65%) GitLab
3 5 (14.71%) JIRA
4 3 (8.82%) Git
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.82%) Retail Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Law
5 2 (5.88%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Salesforce Architect
3 4 (11.76%) SAP Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) ABAP Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Scala Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior ABAP Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior SAP Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) Kafka
2 4 (11.76%) JDBC
2 4 (11.76%) JMS
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (5.88%) Spring
4 2 (5.88%) Swagger
5 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.94%) LDAP
5 1 (2.94%) RESTful
5 1 (2.94%) SAP CO-PA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Agile
1 10 (29.41%) DevOps
2 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (17.65%) Architectural Design
5 5 (14.71%) Analytics
5 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.76%) ERP
6 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.82%) API Management
7 3 (8.82%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (8.82%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (8.82%) CRM
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (8.82%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (8.82%) RBAC
7 3 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.82%) Bicep
2 3 (8.82%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) ABAP
3 2 (5.88%) Java
3 2 (5.88%) R
3 2 (5.88%) Scala
4 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) CCNP
1 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.94%) CCIE
2 1 (2.94%) CCNA
2 1 (2.94%) CISM
2 1 (2.94%) CISSP
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.94%) Lustre
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (23.53%) Terraform
3 5 (14.71%) Grafana
4 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.82%) Ansible
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (8.82%) Packer
6 2 (5.88%) Puppet
7 1 (2.94%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.94%) OpenVAS
7 1 (2.94%) Podman
7 1 (2.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) SAP
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Salesforce
3 5 (14.71%) Concur
4 4 (11.76%) Google
4 4 (11.76%) MuleSoft
5 3 (8.82%) Cognos
5 3 (8.82%) IBM
5 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.88%) Cloudera
6 2 (5.88%) Confluent
6 2 (5.88%) New Relic
7 1 (2.94%) AlienVault
7 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco
7 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.94%) VMware