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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 226 192
Rank change year-on-year -72 -34 +71
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 250 567 1,093
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.68% 1.19% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.22% 3.52% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 401 712
10th Percentile £450 £438 £438
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £640 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £769 £755 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 3
10th Percentile £38.28 £70.00 £66.10
25th Percentile £40.56 £74.25 £70.38
Median hourly rate £46.25 £78.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.71% -2.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £52.06 £79.00 £84.38
90th Percentile £54.43 £90.00 £85.50
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £78.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -40.71% +44.44% -8.09%

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 11,251 16,100 23,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.47% 33.72% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,318 11,239 17,150
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 556 608
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.21 £10.63 £17.38
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.27 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

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 2 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Cloud in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 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
London -64 114 £567 -12.77% 96
North of England -10 51 £825 +37.50% 59
North West +23 44 £850 +41.67% 33
South West +2 30 £600 -7.69% 12
South East -15 27 £613 +11.36% 33
Midlands +15 19 £675 -3.57% 20
West Midlands +3 13 £700 - 15
East Midlands +5 6 £445 -36.43% 5
Yorkshire -15 6 £558 -7.08% 17
North East -6 1 £525 -32.26% 9
East of England -10 1 - - 7
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 23 (9.20%) Confluence
2 8 (3.20%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.20%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.20%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.80%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.80%) Shopify
4 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (54.00%) Azure
2 111 (44.40%) AWS
3 58 (23.20%) GCP
4 24 (9.60%) SaaS
5 22 (8.80%) PaaS
6 20 (8.00%) Serverless
7 18 (7.20%) GitHub
8 16 (6.40%) OpenShift
9 15 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (5.60%) IaaS
11 13 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.80%) Amazon S3
13 10 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (3.20%) Apigee
15 8 (3.20%) AWS CloudTrail
15 8 (3.20%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (21.20%) VPN
2 41 (16.40%) Firewall
3 18 (7.20%) WAN
4 13 (5.20%) LAN
5 6 (2.40%) DNS
5 6 (2.40%) MPLS
5 6 (2.40%) Network Security
6 5 (2.00%) BGP
6 5 (2.00%) SSL
7 4 (1.60%) Internet
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.20%) IOS XR
8 3 (1.20%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.20%) SAN
8 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.80%) HTTP
9 2 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.80%) OSPF
9 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.80%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.00%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.20%) DB2
3 8 (3.20%) MySQL
3 8 (3.20%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.80%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.60%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.60%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.60%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.20%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.20%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (15.20%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.20%) Git
3 19 (7.60%) GitLab
3 19 (7.60%) JIRA
4 10 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.40%) Maven
5 6 (2.40%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.40%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.00%) AppScan
6 5 (2.00%) Burp Suite
6 5 (2.00%) Spinnaker
7 4 (1.60%) JUnit
7 4 (1.60%) Mockito
8 3 (1.20%) JMeter
8 3 (1.20%) Selenium
8 3 (1.20%) Subversion
8 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 72 (28.80%) Finance
2 58 (23.20%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.40%) Banking
3 21 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.20%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.20%) Legal
7 7 (2.80%) Billing
8 6 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.00%) Marketing
10 3 (1.20%) Automotive
10 3 (1.20%) Aviation
10 3 (1.20%) Electronics
10 3 (1.20%) Front Office
10 3 (1.20%) Law
10 3 (1.20%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (36.80%) Architect
2 49 (19.60%) Technical Architect
3 38 (15.20%) Lead
4 31 (12.40%) Senior
5 29 (11.60%) Lead Architect
5 29 (11.60%) Technical Leader
6 25 (10.00%) Developer
7 20 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (6.80%) Consultant
10 12 (4.80%) Azure Architect
10 12 (4.80%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.00%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.60%) Network Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) Java Engineer
15 7 (2.80%) AWS Developer
15 7 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (2.80%) MuleSoft Developer
15 7 (2.80%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.40%) Node.js
2 17 (6.80%) .NET
3 16 (6.40%) REST
4 13 (5.20%) Spring
5 11 (4.40%) Swagger
6 10 (4.00%) JSON
6 10 (4.00%) Kafka
6 10 (4.00%) Middleware
7 8 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.20%) OpenAPI
7 8 (3.20%) SOAP
8 7 (2.80%) RESTful
9 6 (2.40%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (2.40%) Apache Camel
9 6 (2.40%) ModSecurity
9 6 (2.40%) OAuth
9 6 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.40%) RAML
10 5 (2.00%) React
10 5 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.60%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.60%) PKI
4 12 (4.80%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.00%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.20%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.00%) Mainframe
9 5 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.00%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.60%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (1.60%) Derivative
10 4 (1.60%) Equities
10 4 (1.60%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.60%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 66 (26.40%) Windows
2 56 (22.40%) Linux
3 44 (17.60%) Windows Server
4 37 (14.80%) Android
4 37 (14.80%) Apple iOS
5 11 (4.40%) Unix
6 5 (2.00%) zOS
7 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.20%) VMS
8 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.40%) AIX
9 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (46.40%) Agile
2 97 (38.80%) DevOps
3 80 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 49 (19.60%) Microservices
5 44 (17.60%) Security Architecture
6 41 (16.40%) Risk Management
7 40 (16.00%) Containerisation
8 36 (14.40%) Design Patterns
9 35 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (14.00%) Zero Trust
10 33 (13.20%) Migration
11 32 (12.80%) Mobile Device Management
12 31 (12.40%) Roadmaps
13 30 (12.00%) Threat Intelligence
14 28 (11.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 25 (10.00%) Project Management
16 23 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
17 22 (8.80%) Technical Leadership
17 22 (8.80%) TOGAF
18 21 (8.40%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 60 (24.00%) Python
2 40 (16.00%) Java
3 28 (11.20%) PowerShell
4 26 (10.40%) SQL
5 20 (8.00%) Bash
6 11 (4.40%) C
7 8 (3.20%) C#
8 7 (2.80%) Ruby
9 6 (2.40%) Go
9 6 (2.40%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.60%) C++
10 4 (1.60%) Groovy
10 4 (1.60%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.20%) Perl
11 3 (1.20%) PHP
11 3 (1.20%) R
12 2 (0.80%) Bicep
12 2 (0.80%) Clojure
12 2 (0.80%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 56 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 55 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.80%) Degree
4 8 (3.20%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.40%) CISSP
5 6 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.40%) SANS
6 5 (2.00%) CISM
6 5 (2.00%) CRISC
7 4 (1.60%) CCIE
7 4 (1.60%) CCNP
7 4 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.60%) HND
7 4 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.60%) MCSE
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.40%) QA
2 11 (4.40%) NCSC
3 9 (3.60%) NIST
4 7 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.60%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.80%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) GDPR
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 53 (21.20%) Docker
2 19 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.20%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.80%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.40%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.60%) vCloud
8 3 (1.20%) 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 65 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 49 (19.60%) Terraform
3 37 (14.80%) Ansible
4 15 (6.00%) Progress Chef
5 13 (5.20%) Puppet
6 11 (4.40%) Grafana
6 11 (4.40%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.20%) Graylog
8 7 (2.80%) Nagios
9 6 (2.40%) OPNET
9 6 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.00%) HP Fortify
10 5 (2.00%) Istio
10 5 (2.00%) Nessus
10 5 (2.00%) WebInspect
11 4 (1.60%) PowerCLI
11 4 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.60%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (1.20%) Podman
13 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 45 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.00%) Google
2 30 (12.00%) VMware
3 27 (10.80%) Oracle
3 27 (10.80%) SAP
4 21 (8.40%) Splunk
5 16 (6.40%) Cisco
6 9 (3.60%) Databricks
6 9 (3.60%) F5
7 8 (3.20%) MuleSoft
7 8 (3.20%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.80%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.40%) Checkmarx
9 6 (2.40%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.40%) WSO2
10 5 (2.00%) Apple
10 5 (2.00%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.00%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.00%) Veracode
10 5 (2.00%) Zscaler