Cloud Computing Contracts in the South West

Cloud Computing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 121 102 160
Rank change year-on-year -19 +58 -43
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 31 57 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.98% 1.65% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.92% 4.86% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 11
10th Percentile £593 £408 £263
25th Percentile £625 £513 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +35.14% -11.90%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £563
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.30% +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -32.69% +33.33%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 791 1,172 1,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.03% 33.84% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 947 851
10th Percentile £213 £300 £250
25th Percentile £381 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £599 £656 £596
90th Percentile £675 £721 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 56 21
10th Percentile £12.58 £17.19 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £54.18 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.01% +151.98% -52.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +3 27 £650 -2.80% 3
Bristol +12 3 £575 +4.55% 8
Devon - 1 £600 - 3
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (3.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (90.32%) IaaS
1 28 (90.32%) PaaS
1 28 (90.32%) SaaS
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (87.10%) LAN
1 27 (87.10%) WAN
2 3 (9.68%) DNS
3 2 (6.45%) DHCP
4 1 (3.23%) 5G
4 1 (3.23%) LTE
4 1 (3.23%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 27 (87.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (87.10%) Architect
1 27 (87.10%) Network Architect
2 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) Developer
3 1 (3.23%) Software Developer
3 1 (3.23%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.23%) Django
1 1 (3.23%) Flask
1 1 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (87.10%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.23%) Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
1 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
1 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Open Source
2 27 (87.10%) Business Strategy
2 27 (87.10%) Network Management
2 27 (87.10%) Zero Trust
3 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (6.45%) Project Management
5 1 (3.23%) Agile
5 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (3.23%) CI/CD
5 1 (3.23%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (3.23%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (3.23%) OO
5 1 (3.23%) OOP
5 1 (3.23%) Project Delivery
5 1 (3.23%) Scrum
5 1 (3.23%) Service Management
5 1 (3.23%) Software Architecture
5 1 (3.23%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.23%) Test Automation
5 1 (3.23%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (96.77%) Security Cleared
2 29 (93.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.45%) VMware
2 1 (3.23%) Google
2 1 (3.23%) Veritas