Cloud Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 394 466
Rank change year-on-year +40 +72 -82
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 24 41 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 32
10th Percentile £256 £475 £524
25th Percentile £331 £494 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £675
90th Percentile £584 - £813
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £631
% change year-on-year - -12.84% +14.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Cloud Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
North of England +22 6 £550 +10.00% 2
South East +14 6 £350 -39.13% 2
Scotland +45 5 £579 - 8
North West +20 5 £550 +4.76% 1
South West +13 4 £263 -62.50% 3
East of England - 2 £538 - 1
Midlands +22 1 £550 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 1
West Midlands +8 1 £550 -20.00% 2
Cloud Consultant
UK

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Cloud Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Consultant in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Oracle
1 14 (58.33%) OCI
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle Payroll
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (12.50%) ERP
4 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) CRISC
5 2 (8.33%) Capacity Management
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.33%) vSphere
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.33%) Kanban
5 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (8.33%) VxRail
5 2 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Smart View
1 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Payroll
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (4.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) OCI
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) VSAN
2 1 (4.17%) Broadband
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) LAN
2 1 (4.17%) MPLS
2 1 (4.17%) PBX
2 1 (4.17%) VPLS
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) French Language
4 1 (4.17%) German Language
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Mac OS X
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (12.50%) ERP
2 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 2 (8.33%) Agile
3 2 (8.33%) Analytics
3 2 (8.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (8.33%) Capacity Management
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (8.33%) Kanban
3 2 (8.33%) Migration
3 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (8.33%) TOGAF
4 1 (4.17%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (4.17%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (8.33%) CISA
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.33%) CISM
1 2 (8.33%) CISMP
1 2 (8.33%) CISSP
1 2 (8.33%) CRISC
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) CCSP
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) COBIT
1 2 (8.33%) GRC
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.33%) vSphere
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
1 2 (8.33%) VxRail
2 1 (4.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) VMware
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco
3 2 (8.33%) Dell
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.17%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) SAP