Cloud Computing Contracts in England

Cloud Computing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 319 432
Rank change year-on-year +15 +113 -95
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 235 359 378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.75% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 2.04% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 263 215
10th Percentile £350 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -32.69% +33.33%
75th Percentile £36.63 £19.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £67.45 £37.80 -
UK median hourly rate £18.75 £18.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +2.74% -17.05% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
England

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,687 17,571 27,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.09% 36.46% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,435 12,880 19,964
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £742
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 289 332
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.64
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +22 124 £600 +3.23% 114
North of England +52 36 £475 -17.39% 43
South West -19 31 £650 +4.00% 16
North West +26 17 £450 -21.74% 21
Yorkshire +26 16 £507 -30.07% 16
South East +24 16 £250 -54.51% 36
East of England +2 9 £575 -1.29% 2
North East - 3 - - 6
West Midlands +9 2 £345 -34.29% 8
Midlands +1 2 £345 -31.00% 18
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.40%) Apache
3 6 (2.55%) Confluence
4 5 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.70%) CMS
6 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.43%) IIS
8 1 (0.43%) JBoss
8 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.70%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.40%) Endur
2 5 (2.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 101 (42.98%) Azure
2 90 (38.30%) AWS
3 57 (24.26%) PaaS
4 53 (22.55%) IaaS
5 52 (22.13%) GCP
6 51 (21.70%) SaaS
7 19 (8.09%) Serverless
8 13 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.26%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.26%) Nutanix
11 9 (3.83%) GitHub
12 8 (3.40%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.98%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 7 (2.98%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (2.55%) Azure Storage
14 6 (2.55%) Rubrik
15 5 (2.13%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 38 (16.17%) WAN
2 36 (15.32%) LAN
3 19 (8.09%) Firewall
4 18 (7.66%) DNS
5 15 (6.38%) TCP/IP
6 14 (5.96%) VPN
7 9 (3.83%) DHCP
7 9 (3.83%) NAS
7 9 (3.83%) SAN
8 8 (3.40%) Network Security
9 7 (2.98%) Internet
9 7 (2.98%) VLAN
10 6 (2.55%) InfiniBand
10 6 (2.55%) Kerberos
10 6 (2.55%) VoIP
11 5 (2.13%) CTI
11 5 (2.13%) IPsec
11 5 (2.13%) SSH
12 4 (1.70%) BGP
12 4 (1.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
1 15 (6.38%) Big Data
2 14 (5.96%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.11%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.68%) BigQuery
4 11 (4.68%) Hadoop
4 11 (4.68%) MySQL
4 11 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.68%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.40%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.98%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.13%) Bigtable
9 5 (2.13%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.70%) Cloud Spanner
11 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (11.91%) Git
2 19 (8.09%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.40%) JIRA
3 8 (3.40%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.70%) JMeter
6 3 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.28%) GitLab
6 3 (1.28%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.28%) NeoLoad
6 3 (1.28%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.85%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.85%) webpack
8 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.43%) JUnit
8 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
General
1 56 (23.83%) Finance
2 53 (22.55%) Public Sector
3 47 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 34 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.36%) Manufacturing
6 17 (7.23%) Telecoms
7 14 (5.96%) Banking
8 13 (5.53%) Marketing
9 11 (4.68%) Electronics
10 9 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.98%) Law
12 6 (2.55%) Retail
13 5 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.28%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.28%) Legal
15 3 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (1.28%) Wearables
16 1 (0.43%) Automotive
16 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 72 (30.64%) Architect
2 28 (11.91%) Network Architect
3 24 (10.21%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (8.51%) Analyst
5 19 (8.09%) Senior
6 16 (6.81%) Developer
7 15 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.53%) Support Engineer
9 12 (5.11%) Consultant
9 12 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.26%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.40%) Business Analyst
13 7 (2.98%) Enterprise Architect
13 7 (2.98%) Software Engineer
14 6 (2.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.55%) Lead
15 5 (2.13%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.81%) React
2 14 (5.96%) Kafka
3 11 (4.68%) HTML
3 11 (4.68%) RESTful
4 10 (4.26%) LDAP
4 10 (4.26%) Middleware
5 9 (3.83%) .NET
5 9 (3.83%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.55%) TensorFlow
6 6 (2.55%) Web Services
7 5 (2.13%) CSS
7 5 (2.13%) JSON
7 5 (2.13%) Node.js
7 5 (2.13%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.70%) Hugging Face
8 4 (1.70%) LangChain
9 3 (1.28%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.28%) IDoc
9 3 (1.28%) Next.js
9 3 (1.28%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.89%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.83%) IoT
5 8 (3.40%) Clustering
6 7 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.98%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.98%) Robotics
7 6 (2.55%) Replication
7 6 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.13%) Industry 4.0
8 5 (2.13%) IVR
8 5 (2.13%) PKI
9 4 (1.70%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.49%) Windows
2 24 (10.21%) Linux
3 15 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.83%) Unix
5 6 (2.55%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (2.55%) Solaris
6 4 (1.70%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.85%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (26.81%) DevOps
2 55 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (20.85%) Agile
4 38 (16.17%) Business Strategy
5 36 (15.32%) Open Source
6 34 (14.47%) CI/CD
6 34 (14.47%) Computer Science
7 33 (14.04%) Artificial Intelligence
7 33 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (11.91%) Network Management
9 27 (11.49%) Zero Trust
10 26 (11.06%) Machine Learning
11 24 (10.21%) Migration
12 23 (9.79%) Analytics
13 22 (9.36%) Containerisation
13 22 (9.36%) High Availability
14 20 (8.51%) Change Management
15 19 (8.09%) Microservices
15 19 (8.09%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (7.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 56 (23.83%) SQL
2 53 (22.55%) Python
3 39 (16.60%) Java
4 28 (11.91%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.09%) JavaScript
6 17 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.38%) C#
8 13 (5.53%) Bash
9 8 (3.40%) C
10 6 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.13%) ABAP
12 4 (1.70%) Go
12 4 (1.70%) Scala
13 3 (1.28%) Bicep
13 3 (1.28%) C++
14 2 (0.85%) Clojure
14 2 (0.85%) Haskell
14 2 (0.85%) Perl
14 2 (0.85%) Rust
14 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.02%) Degree
3 33 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 22 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.23%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.68%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.13%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.70%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.28%) CCIE
11 3 (1.28%) CCNA
11 3 (1.28%) CCNP
12 2 (0.85%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.85%) CITP
12 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.85%) MCP
12 2 (0.85%) MCSE
12 2 (0.85%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.11%) GDPR
2 10 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.70%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.70%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.28%) SLA
7 3 (1.28%) WCAG
8 2 (0.85%) COBIT
8 2 (0.85%) QA
9 1 (0.43%) EMIR
9 1 (0.43%) FATCA
9 1 (0.43%) MiFID
9 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (8.51%) Active Directory
1 20 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (8.09%) Docker
3 11 (4.68%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.55%) vSphere
6 4 (1.70%) NFS
7 2 (0.85%) HDFS
7 2 (0.85%) KVM
7 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.43%) Firmware
8 1 (0.43%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 31 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.06%) Terraform
3 15 (6.38%) Ansible
4 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.55%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (2.55%) Grafana
5 6 (2.55%) Netcool
5 6 (2.55%) SCCM
5 6 (2.55%) Tivoli
5 6 (2.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (1.70%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.70%) Kibana
7 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.43%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.43%) yum
8 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (24.26%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.47%) Google
3 26 (11.06%) Oracle
4 22 (9.36%) VMware
5 20 (8.51%) Cisco
6 19 (8.09%) SAP
7 12 (5.11%) ServiceNow
8 10 (4.26%) Splunk
9 8 (3.40%) Dell
10 7 (2.98%) HP
10 7 (2.98%) IBM
10 7 (2.98%) Qualys
11 6 (2.55%) Avaya
11 6 (2.55%) CyberArk
11 6 (2.55%) EMC
11 6 (2.55%) Isilon
11 6 (2.55%) Serena
12 5 (2.13%) Foundry
12 5 (2.13%) OpenLink
12 5 (2.13%) Palantir