Private Cloud Contracts

Private Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Private Cloud over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 347 484
Rank change year-on-year -106 +137 +72
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 122 381 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.68% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 2.04% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 296 298
10th Percentile £463 £447 £438
25th Percentile £475 £520 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +6.19% +4.63%
75th Percentile £630 £725 £655
90th Percentile £688 £806 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £615 £515
% change year-on-year -14.63% +19.42% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 5
10th Percentile - - £41.98
25th Percentile - - £42.33
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +47.37% -1.55%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +47.37% -9.52%

All Generic Skills
UK

Private 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Private Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -100 106 £538 -13.92% 57
UK excluding London -68 92 £525 -14.63% 31
South West -27 64 £503 -18.29% 10
Work from Home -15 33 £500 -16.67% 38
London 0 17 £638 -8.93% 23
South East +2 11 £625 +38.89% 5
North of England -6 6 £513 -29.31% 8
Scotland +27 5 £600 - 1
North West +7 5 £513 +3.80% 8
Midlands +9 3 £675 +3.85% 5
West Midlands 0 3 £675 +3.85% 2
East of England -1 3 - - 2
North East +2 1 £600 -27.18%

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 34 (27.87%) Confluence
2 29 (23.77%) SharePoint
2 29 (23.77%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (2.46%) CMS
3 3 (2.46%) Drupal
3 3 (2.46%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.82%) JBoss
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.82%) nginx
4 1 (0.82%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.82%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.82%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.82%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.82%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 54 (44.26%) Azure
2 30 (24.59%) Azure Stack
3 20 (16.39%) AWS
4 10 (8.20%) GCP
5 7 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.10%) AWS Direct Connect
6 5 (4.10%) GitHub
6 5 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.28%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.46%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.46%) Datadog
8 3 (2.46%) IaaS
8 3 (2.46%) Route 53
8 3 (2.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 55 (45.08%) Firewall
2 30 (24.59%) BGP
3 12 (9.84%) DNS
4 9 (7.38%) DHCP
5 5 (4.10%) VoIP
6 4 (3.28%) LAN
6 4 (3.28%) SD-WAN
6 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.28%) VPN
6 4 (3.28%) WAN
6 4 (3.28%) WLAN
7 3 (2.46%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (2.46%) SSL
8 2 (1.64%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.64%) VLAN
8 2 (1.64%) VSAN
8 2 (1.64%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.82%) 5G
9 1 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.82%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.82%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.82%) MySQL
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (32.79%) JIRA
2 12 (9.84%) Git
3 11 (9.02%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.10%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.28%) GitLab
5 4 (3.28%) Selenium
6 3 (2.46%) Subversion
7 2 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.64%) Maven
7 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.30%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.10%) Finance
5 4 (3.28%) Banking
6 2 (1.64%) Retail
7 1 (0.82%) Billing
7 1 (0.82%) French Language
7 1 (0.82%) Front Office
7 1 (0.82%) German Language
7 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.82%) Legal
7 1 (0.82%) Marketing
7 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (19.67%) Architect
2 23 (18.85%) Analyst
3 19 (15.57%) Network Engineer
4 17 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (11.48%) Microsoft Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (8.20%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (7.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.92%) Infrastructure Architect
10 6 (4.92%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.10%) Security Architect
11 5 (4.10%) Senior
11 5 (4.10%) Service Analyst
11 5 (4.10%) Service Management Analyst
11 5 (4.10%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.10%) VoIP Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Voice Engineer
13 3 (2.46%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.10%) SailPoint
2 4 (3.28%) Node.js
3 3 (2.46%) LDAP
4 2 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.64%) React
5 1 (0.82%) .NET
5 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.82%) Django
5 1 (0.82%) Flask
5 1 (0.82%) OpenFin
5 1 (0.82%) Playwright
5 1 (0.82%) Reactive Extensions
5 1 (0.82%) RxJS
5 1 (0.82%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.82%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (31.15%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.20%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.56%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.92%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.46%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (27.87%) Windows
2 7 (5.74%) Linux
3 3 (2.46%) Unix
4 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.87%) ITIL
2 32 (26.23%) Network Management
3 31 (25.41%) Service Management
4 30 (24.59%) Capacity Management
4 30 (24.59%) Security Monitoring
5 26 (21.31%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (20.49%) ITSM
7 24 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (14.75%) DevOps
8 18 (14.75%) Resource Management
9 17 (13.93%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 16 (13.11%) Agile
10 16 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (12.30%) Knowledge Transfer
11 15 (12.30%) Penetration Testing
12 14 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.66%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 11 (9.02%) Backlog Management
14 11 (9.02%) Privileged Access Management
15 9 (7.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.66%) Python
2 7 (5.74%) Bash
3 5 (4.10%) Java
3 5 (4.10%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.28%) Ruby
5 3 (2.46%) C
5 3 (2.46%) C++
5 3 (2.46%) Perl
6 2 (1.64%) SQL
7 1 (0.82%) C#
7 1 (0.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 84 (68.85%) Security Cleared
2 47 (38.52%) DV Cleared
3 36 (29.51%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.56%) Degree
5 2 (1.64%) VCAP
5 2 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.82%) CISSP
6 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.77%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (4.92%) QA
3 5 (4.10%) SLA
4 3 (2.46%) GRC
5 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (18.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (13.93%) vSphere
3 6 (4.92%) Docker
3 6 (4.92%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (16.39%) SCOM
2 15 (12.30%) vCenter Server
3 14 (11.48%) Terraform
4 13 (10.66%) Kubernetes
5 12 (9.84%) Ansible
6 5 (4.10%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.28%) Puppet
8 3 (2.46%) Nagios
9 1 (0.82%) Grafana
9 1 (0.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (33.61%) Microsoft
2 29 (23.77%) Atlassian
3 28 (22.95%) VMware
4 6 (4.92%) Cisco
4 6 (4.92%) Palo Alto
5 5 (4.10%) CyberArk
5 5 (4.10%) Oracle
6 4 (3.28%) Google
6 4 (3.28%) SAP
6 4 (3.28%) Splunk
7 3 (2.46%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.46%) New Relic
7 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.64%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.64%) Dell
8 2 (1.64%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (1.64%) Mercator
8 2 (1.64%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (1.64%) Veeam