Public Cloud Contracts with Work from Home Options

Public Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 234 182
Rank change year-on-year -15 -52 +49
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 98 257 674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 1.04% 1.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 3.30% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 186 504
10th Percentile £496 £453 £404
25th Percentile £563 £538 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £641 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +6.88% +9.09%
75th Percentile £747 £709 £675
90th Percentile £850 £804 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £53.25 £42.80
25th Percentile - £56.63 £47.00
Median hourly rate - £64.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +19.44% -0.46%
75th Percentile - £67.13 £68.25
90th Percentile - £67.35 £76.80
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £75.50 £60.25
% change year-on-year -49.01% +25.31% +4.78%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,251 7,781 13,858
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.72% 31.57% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,907 5,495 9,916
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £797 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 150 225
10th Percentile £15.88 £19.00 £13.66
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Public Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Public Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public Cloud
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 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 a work from home option citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 12 (12.24%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.04%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) nginx
4 1 (1.02%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.04%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.02%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.02%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.02%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 59 (60.20%) Azure
2 52 (53.06%) AWS
3 19 (19.39%) GCP
4 10 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (9.18%) SaaS
6 8 (8.16%) AWS CloudTrail
6 8 (8.16%) Serverless
7 6 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (6.12%) PaaS
8 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.08%) Datadog
9 4 (4.08%) IaaS
10 3 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.06%) GitHub
10 3 (3.06%) Route 53
10 3 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.33%) Firewall
2 13 (13.27%) VPN
3 8 (8.16%) LAN
3 8 (8.16%) WAN
4 4 (4.08%) BGP
5 3 (3.06%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (3.06%) Internet
5 3 (3.06%) IOS XR
5 3 (3.06%) MPLS
5 3 (3.06%) Network Security
5 3 (3.06%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (2.04%) HTTP
6 2 (2.04%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.04%) Wireless
7 1 (1.02%) DNS
7 1 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.02%) IPsec
7 1 (1.02%) SAN
7 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.06%) DB2
5 3 (3.06%) MySQL
5 3 (3.06%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.04%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.04%) Couchbase
6 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.04%) Redis
7 1 (1.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) JIRA
2 10 (10.20%) GitLab
3 8 (8.16%) Git
3 8 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.06%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.04%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.04%) JMeter
5 2 (2.04%) Selenium
6 1 (1.02%) AppScan
6 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.02%) Hudson
6 1 (1.02%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.02%) Maven
6 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.02%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.02%) VisualWorks
General
1 32 (32.65%) Finance
2 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Banking
4 10 (10.20%) Telecoms
5 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.08%) Billing
7 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Electronics
9 2 (2.04%) Marketing
10 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (35.71%) Architect
2 18 (18.37%) Technical Architect
3 15 (15.31%) Senior
4 11 (11.22%) Lead
5 9 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (8.16%) Azure Architect
6 8 (8.16%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (8.16%) Consultant
7 7 (7.14%) Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Lead Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Network Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Architect
9 4 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Commercial Manager
9 4 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) Node.js
2 6 (6.12%) .NET
2 6 (6.12%) JSON
2 6 (6.12%) REST
3 5 (5.10%) Middleware
4 4 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.08%) OAuth
5 3 (3.06%) Django
5 3 (3.06%) Kafka
5 3 (3.06%) LDAP
5 3 (3.06%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.06%) OpenAPI
5 3 (3.06%) React
5 3 (3.06%) RESTful
5 3 (3.06%) SOAP
5 3 (3.06%) Swagger
5 3 (3.06%) YAML
5 3 (3.06%) YANG
6 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.04%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 6 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.10%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.06%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.02%) BYOD
9 1 (1.02%) Clustering
9 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.02%) IoT
9 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.02%) Replication
9 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.47%) Linux
2 19 (19.39%) Windows
3 12 (12.24%) Android
3 12 (12.24%) Apple iOS
4 10 (10.20%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.08%) Unix
6 2 (2.04%) CentOS
6 2 (2.04%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.04%) VMS
7 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.02%) Agile
2 36 (36.73%) DevOps
3 27 (27.55%) CI/CD
4 15 (15.31%) Security Architecture
5 13 (13.27%) Microservices
6 12 (12.24%) Analytics
6 12 (12.24%) Design Patterns
7 11 (11.22%) Containerisation
7 11 (11.22%) Roadmaps
8 10 (10.20%) Mentoring
8 10 (10.20%) Risk Management
8 10 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (10.20%) Test Automation
8 10 (10.20%) Zero Trust
9 9 (9.18%) Configuration Management
9 9 (9.18%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (9.18%) Mobile Device Management
9 9 (9.18%) Open Source
9 9 (9.18%) Project Management
9 9 (9.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.41%) Python
2 17 (17.35%) Java
3 11 (11.22%) SQL
4 10 (10.20%) Bash
5 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.10%) C
8 4 (4.08%) Ruby
9 3 (3.06%) C#
9 3 (3.06%) Go
9 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.04%) C++
10 2 (2.04%) Groovy
10 2 (2.04%) Perl
10 2 (2.04%) PHP
10 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.02%) Scala
11 1 (1.02%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 19 (19.39%) SC Cleared
1 19 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.02%) CCIE
3 1 (1.02%) CCNP
3 1 (1.02%) Degree
3 1 (1.02%) MCSE
3 1 (1.02%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.20%) QA
2 9 (9.18%) NCSC
3 5 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.10%) NIST
4 4 (4.08%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (4.08%) SLA
5 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (14.29%) Docker
2 7 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (19.39%) Kubernetes
1 19 (19.39%) Terraform
2 16 (16.33%) Ansible
3 6 (6.12%) Grafana
3 6 (6.12%) Progress Chef
3 6 (6.12%) Puppet
4 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.08%) Nagios
5 4 (4.08%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 2 (2.04%) Graylog
6 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.04%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.02%) Argo
7 1 (1.02%) Consul
7 1 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.02%) Packer
7 1 (1.02%) PowerBroker
7 1 (1.02%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.02%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.22%) VMware
3 9 (9.18%) SAP
4 8 (8.16%) Splunk
5 7 (7.14%) Google
6 6 (6.12%) Cisco
7 5 (5.10%) Databricks
7 5 (5.10%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.06%) Checkmarx
8 3 (3.06%) TOWER Software
9 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.04%) Confluent
9 2 (2.04%) F5
9 2 (2.04%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.04%) IBM
9 2 (2.04%) Informatica
9 2 (2.04%) New Relic
9 2 (2.04%) Oracle
9 2 (2.04%) StreamSets
9 2 (2.04%) Zscaler