Cloud Computing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 265 245 379
Rank change year-on-year -20 +134 -48
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 80 227 247
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.92% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 2.33% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 165 175
10th Percentile £376 £413 £400
25th Percentile £466 £481 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £655
90th Percentile £685 £742 £750
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £20.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% -
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.75 £18.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +2.74% -17.05% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,396 9,727 18,246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.48% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,218 13,626
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £743 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Cloud Computing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cloud Computing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Computing
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 Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Cloud Computing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Computing
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 Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Computing
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 6 (7.50%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) JBoss
3 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 5 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Endur
2 2 (2.50%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 51 (63.75%) Azure
2 46 (57.50%) AWS
3 28 (35.00%) GCP
4 11 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.75%) Serverless
5 10 (12.50%) IaaS
5 10 (12.50%) PaaS
5 10 (12.50%) SaaS
6 7 (8.75%) Nutanix
6 7 (8.75%) Twilio
7 6 (7.50%) Rubrik
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.50%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.75%) Firewall
2 10 (12.50%) DNS
3 8 (10.00%) DHCP
3 8 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (10.00%) VoIP
4 7 (8.75%) CTI
4 7 (8.75%) Network Security
5 6 (7.50%) Kerberos
5 6 (7.50%) NAS
5 6 (7.50%) SAN
5 6 (7.50%) VLAN
6 4 (5.00%) InfiniBand
7 3 (3.75%) VPN
7 3 (3.75%) WAN
8 2 (2.50%) LAN
9 1 (1.25%) Internet
9 1 (1.25%) MPLS
9 1 (1.25%) PPP
9 1 (1.25%) RIP
9 1 (1.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) Big Data
2 7 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) MySQL
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.50%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.25%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Git
1 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.75%) JIRA
3 6 (7.50%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.75%) Terragrunt
5 2 (2.50%) GitLab
6 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.25%) JMeter
6 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.25%) NeoLoad
General
1 25 (31.25%) Finance
2 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.75%) Telecoms
5 9 (11.25%) Banking
5 9 (11.25%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.25%) Electronics
6 5 (6.25%) Marketing
6 5 (6.25%) Retail
7 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Architect
2 12 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (13.75%) Developer
4 10 (12.50%) Consultant
5 8 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Senior
7 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Network Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Technical Support
8 5 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) Middleware
2 7 (8.75%) React
2 7 (8.75%) Web Services
3 6 (7.50%) LDAP
4 5 (6.25%) RESTful
5 4 (5.00%) Kafka
6 3 (3.75%) .NET
6 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.75%) EDI
6 3 (3.75%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.75%) HTML
7 2 (2.50%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.50%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.50%) Django
7 2 (2.50%) Hugging Face
7 2 (2.50%) IDoc
7 2 (2.50%) LangChain
7 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.50%) XML
8 1 (1.25%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) IVR
1 7 (8.75%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.50%) Clustering
2 6 (7.50%) Replication
3 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.25%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Linux
2 8 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (8.75%) Windows
3 7 (8.75%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.50%) Oracle Linux
4 6 (7.50%) Solaris
5 1 (1.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (46.25%) DevOps
2 26 (32.50%) Agile
3 18 (22.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 16 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 16 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (17.50%) Analytics
6 12 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (13.75%) High Availability
7 11 (13.75%) Microservices
8 10 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 9 (11.25%) Change Management
9 9 (11.25%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (11.25%) Customer Experience
9 9 (11.25%) Data Analysis
9 9 (11.25%) Knowledge Transfer
10 8 (10.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 27 (33.75%) Python
2 22 (27.50%) SQL
3 18 (22.50%) PowerShell
4 9 (11.25%) Bash
4 9 (11.25%) Java
5 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.00%) C#
8 3 (3.75%) C
9 2 (2.50%) ABAP
9 2 (2.50%) Bicep
10 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.25%) Perl
10 1 (1.25%) PHP
10 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.25%) R
10 1 (1.25%) Rust
10 1 (1.25%) Scala
10 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Degree
2 13 (16.25%) Azure Certification
2 13 (16.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.75%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.75%) Master's Degree
5 6 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
6 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.50%) CISSP
8 1 (1.25%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.25%) CCIP
8 1 (1.25%) CCNA
8 1 (1.25%) CCNP
8 1 (1.25%) CCSP
8 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) GDPR
2 6 (7.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 5 (6.25%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.00%) SOC 2
5 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.25%) COBIT
6 1 (1.25%) EMIR
6 1 (1.25%) FATCA
6 1 (1.25%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.25%) MiFID
6 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 15 (18.75%) Docker
2 9 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.75%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) Terraform
2 15 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.25%) Ansible
4 6 (7.50%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (7.50%) Netcool
4 6 (7.50%) Tivoli
4 6 (7.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.50%) Nagios
6 2 (2.50%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) Control-M
7 1 (1.25%) Kibana
7 1 (1.25%) Opsview
7 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.50%) Oracle
3 17 (21.25%) Google
4 14 (17.50%) Cisco
5 9 (11.25%) ServiceNow
5 9 (11.25%) VMware
6 7 (8.75%) Avaya
6 7 (8.75%) Genesys
6 7 (8.75%) IBM
6 7 (8.75%) SAP
6 7 (8.75%) Splunk
7 6 (7.50%) CyberArk
7 6 (7.50%) Dell
7 6 (7.50%) EMC
7 6 (7.50%) HP
7 6 (7.50%) Isilon
7 6 (7.50%) Qualys
7 6 (7.50%) Serena
8 3 (3.75%) Phenom
8 3 (3.75%) Red Hat