Cloud Computing Contracts in the South East

Cloud Computing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 171 195 217
Rank change year-on-year +24 +22 -34
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 16 25 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.45% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.49% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 22
10th Percentile £121 £425 £333
25th Percentile £167 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £436 £650 £594
90th Percentile £600 £800 £650
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.30% +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% +33.33%
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -32.69% +33.33%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,305 1,683 2,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.92% 30.05% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 1,228 1,786
10th Percentile £250 £250 £206
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £613
90th Percentile £675 £702 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 51 57
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.21 £13.03
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +14.29% -2.44%
75th Percentile £54.75 £68.13 £24.25
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £58.01
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +5 9 £124 -78.43% 6
Surrey +15 5 £250 -44.40% 2
Berkshire -15 5 £124 -79.77% 3
Oxfordshire - 3 £533 -
Buckinghamshire +23 1 - - 3
West Sussex +5 1 £400 -21.95% 3
Hampshire -4 1 - - 6
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.25%) JBoss
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
2 2 (12.50%) IaaS
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (6.25%) ChatGPT
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) LAN
2 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 3 (18.75%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.25%) BGP
4 1 (6.25%) DSL
4 1 (6.25%) EIGRP
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
4 1 (6.25%) IPsec
4 1 (6.25%) MPLS
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (6.25%) OSPF
4 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
4 1 (6.25%) VLAN
4 1 (6.25%) VoIP
4 1 (6.25%) Wireless
4 1 (6.25%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Couchbase
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
2 1 (6.25%) JMeter
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Spinnaker
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (12.50%) HR Assistant
1 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow Specialist
1 2 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Information Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Information Risk Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Information Security Risk Manager
2 1 (6.25%) IT Risk Manager
2 1 (6.25%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Lead
2 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Risk Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Senior
2 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 2 (12.50%) CSS
1 2 (12.50%) HTML
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) LangChain
2 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.25%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (6.25%) IoT
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
2 3 (18.75%) Customer-Centricity
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Information Security
2 3 (18.75%) Logistics
2 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
3 2 (12.50%) Data Management
3 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 2 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) CCDP
3 1 (6.25%) CCIP
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) COBIT
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Nessus
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Meraki
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) ADVA
4 1 (6.25%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (6.25%) Avaya
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Qualys
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk