Cloud Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £539 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 332 456 585
Rank change year-on-year +124 +129 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 13 14 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.089% 0.057% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.060% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 29
10th Percentile £500 £475 £450
25th Percentile £508 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £625 £570
Median % change year-on-year -13.80% +9.65% +15.38%
75th Percentile £571 £679 £638
90th Percentile £579 £685 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -10.42% -2.04% +36.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,707 23,282 42,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.29% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,257 16,477 30,548
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 537 589
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.17 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +48.94%
75th Percentile £64.53 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Cloud Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Specialist.

Cloud Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Cloud Specialist 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) Oracle
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
4 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
4 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
5 4 (30.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (30.77%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (30.77%) Cloud Operations
5 4 (30.77%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
6 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
6 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (23.08%) Cost Control
6 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
6 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (23.08%) SCCM
6 3 (23.08%) Time Management
6 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (23.08%) SLA
6 3 (23.08%) Finance
6 3 (23.08%) VMware
6 3 (23.08%) Citrix
6 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
6 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
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 (7.69%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (30.77%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (7.69%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (23.08%) Cost Control
2 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
2 3 (23.08%) Time Management
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (7.69%) B2B
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.69%) Database Tuning
4 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Citrix
2 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) SAP