Public Cloud Contracts in England

Public Cloud
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in England. 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 304 230 192
Rank change year-on-year -74 -38 +66
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 252 559 1,088
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 1.16% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 3.45% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 397 699
10th Percentile £450 £445 £440
25th Percentile £525 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £638 £605
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +5.37% +15.24%
75th Percentile £772 £760 £700
90th Percentile £850 £829 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
10th Percentile - £62.45 £64.68
25th Percentile £36.75 £70.00 £66.81
Median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year -50.64% +6.48% +24.68%
75th Percentile £40.25 - £79.31
90th Percentile - £82.00 £81.23
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £75.50 £60.25
% change year-on-year -49.01% +25.31% +4.78%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,131 16,221 23,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.59% 33.66% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,299 11,282 16,987
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 810 575 635
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.42
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 -49 116 £575 -13.86% 71
North of England -19 54 £800 +33.33% 46
North West +28 45 £850 +40.21% 22
South West -2 28 £600 +9.09% 21
South East -10 25 £598 +11.16% 12
Midlands +16 19 £675 -3.57% 16
West Midlands +13 13 £700 - 12
Yorkshire -25 8 £550 - 15
East Midlands +8 6 £445 -36.43% 4
East of England -4 1 - - 3
North East -9 1 £525 -32.26% 9
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
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 20 (7.94%) Confluence
2 7 (2.78%) Anypoint
2 7 (2.78%) Apache
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.98%) nginx
3 5 (1.98%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.19%) NetWeaver
4 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.19%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.79%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.79%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.79%) Shopify
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 131 (51.98%) Azure
2 116 (46.03%) AWS
3 55 (21.83%) GCP
4 24 (9.52%) SaaS
5 23 (9.13%) PaaS
6 19 (7.54%) Serverless
7 16 (6.35%) GitHub
8 14 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (5.16%) OpenShift
10 12 (4.76%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.37%) IaaS
12 10 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.57%) Entra ID
14 8 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.17%) AWS CloudTrail
15 7 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.78%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 51 (20.24%) VPN
2 42 (16.67%) Firewall
3 16 (6.35%) WAN
4 11 (4.37%) LAN
5 7 (2.78%) DNS
6 6 (2.38%) MPLS
6 6 (2.38%) Network Security
7 5 (1.98%) BGP
7 5 (1.98%) SSL
8 4 (1.59%) Internet
8 4 (1.59%) SAN
9 3 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.19%) IOS XR
9 3 (1.19%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.79%) NAS
10 2 (0.79%) OSPF
10 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.95%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.17%) MySQL
6 7 (2.78%) DB2
7 6 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.38%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.98%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.59%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.59%) SAP HANA
10 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.19%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.79%) Data Hub
11 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 32 (12.70%) Git
3 17 (6.75%) GitLab
3 17 (6.75%) JIRA
4 8 (3.17%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.38%) Maven
5 6 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.98%) AppScan
6 5 (1.98%) Burp Suite
6 5 (1.98%) Spinnaker
6 5 (1.98%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.59%) JUnit
7 4 (1.59%) Mockito
8 3 (1.19%) JMeter
8 3 (1.19%) Selenium
8 3 (1.19%) Subversion
8 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.40%) VisualWorks
General
1 75 (29.76%) Finance
2 48 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.32%) Banking
4 22 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.75%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.97%) Billing
8 8 (3.17%) Legal
9 6 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.98%) Marketing
11 3 (1.19%) Automotive
11 3 (1.19%) Aviation
11 3 (1.19%) Electronics
11 3 (1.19%) Front Office
11 3 (1.19%) Law
11 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (33.33%) Architect
2 46 (18.25%) Technical Architect
3 38 (15.08%) Lead
4 34 (13.49%) Senior
5 30 (11.90%) Technical Leader
6 28 (11.11%) Lead Architect
7 25 (9.92%) Developer
8 21 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (6.75%) Consultant
10 16 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (3.97%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
13 9 (3.57%) Network Engineer
13 9 (3.57%) Site Engineer
14 8 (3.17%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.17%) Security Architect
15 7 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (2.78%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.87%) Node.js
2 16 (6.35%) REST
3 15 (5.95%) .NET
4 13 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (4.76%) Spring
6 11 (4.37%) Kafka
7 10 (3.97%) JSON
7 10 (3.97%) Swagger
8 7 (2.78%) Middleware
8 7 (2.78%) OpenAPI
8 7 (2.78%) RESTful
8 7 (2.78%) SOAP
9 6 (2.38%) OAuth
10 5 (1.98%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (1.98%) Apache Camel
10 5 (1.98%) LAPP Stack
10 5 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.98%) React
10 5 (1.98%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.94%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.16%) PKI
5 12 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.97%) Mobile App
6 10 (3.97%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.17%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.38%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.98%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.59%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.59%) Derivative
11 4 (1.59%) Equities
11 4 (1.59%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 65 (25.79%) Windows
2 58 (23.02%) Linux
3 45 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 37 (14.68%) Android
4 37 (14.68%) Apple iOS
5 12 (4.76%) Unix
6 7 (2.78%) VMS
7 5 (1.98%) CentOS
7 5 (1.98%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.59%) zOS
9 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.40%) AIX
10 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (44.44%) Agile
2 99 (39.29%) DevOps
3 81 (32.14%) CI/CD
4 45 (17.86%) Microservices
4 45 (17.86%) Security Architecture
5 42 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 36 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 35 (13.89%) Containerisation
7 35 (13.89%) Zero Trust
8 33 (13.10%) Roadmaps
9 32 (12.70%) Mobile Device Management
10 30 (11.90%) Migration
10 30 (11.90%) Threat Intelligence
11 28 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 27 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (9.92%) Configuration Management
14 24 (9.52%) Project Management
15 22 (8.73%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (8.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 65 (25.79%) Python
2 41 (16.27%) Java
3 30 (11.90%) SQL
4 26 (10.32%) Bash
4 26 (10.32%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.16%) Go
6 11 (4.37%) C
7 8 (3.17%) C#
7 8 (3.17%) Ruby
8 6 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.59%) C++
9 4 (1.59%) Groovy
9 4 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.19%) Perl
10 3 (1.19%) PHP
10 3 (1.19%) R
11 2 (0.79%) Haskell
11 2 (0.79%) Rust
11 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.14%) Degree
4 8 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.78%) SANS
6 6 (2.38%) CISM
6 6 (2.38%) CISSP
6 6 (2.38%) CRISC
6 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.59%) CCIE
8 4 (1.59%) CCNP
8 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.59%) HND
8 4 (1.59%) MCSE
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.14%) QA
2 11 (4.37%) NCSC
3 9 (3.57%) NIST
4 7 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.98%) SLA
6 4 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (19.05%) Docker
2 20 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.78%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.98%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.59%) vCloud
8 3 (1.19%) vSphere
9 1 (0.40%) Ceph
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) NFS
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 62 (24.60%) Kubernetes
2 50 (19.84%) Terraform
3 41 (16.27%) Ansible
4 16 (6.35%) Progress Chef
5 14 (5.56%) Grafana
5 14 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.56%) Puppet
6 8 (3.17%) Graylog
7 7 (2.78%) Nagios
8 6 (2.38%) Nessus
8 6 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.98%) HP Fortify
9 5 (1.98%) Istio
9 5 (1.98%) WebInspect
9 5 (1.98%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.59%) OPNET
10 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.59%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 3 (1.19%) Podman
12 2 (0.79%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 42 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.51%) VMware
3 27 (10.71%) Google
3 27 (10.71%) SAP
4 25 (9.92%) Oracle
5 21 (8.33%) Splunk
6 14 (5.56%) Cisco
7 8 (3.17%) F5
8 7 (2.78%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.38%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.38%) Checkmarx
9 6 (2.38%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.98%) Apple
10 5 (1.98%) Databricks
10 5 (1.98%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.98%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.98%) Veracode
10 5 (1.98%) WSO2
10 5 (1.98%) Zscaler