Private Cloud Contracts in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 241 388
Rank change year-on-year -71 +147 -19
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 89 198 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.87% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 2.72% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 156 80
10th Percentile £463 £419 £438
25th Percentile £475 £525 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £615 £515
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% +19.42% -4.63%
75th Percentile £588 £710 £675
90th Percentile £675 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £544 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -9.33% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 5
10th Percentile - - £41.98
25th Percentile - - £42.33
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +47.37% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £72.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +47.37% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Private Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South West -30 62 £503 -18.29% 12
South East +5 10 £631 +40.28% 7
North of England -10 6 £541 -25.34% 9
Scotland +39 5 £600 - 3
North West +3 5 £523 +5.82% 8
West Midlands +4 3 £675 +3.85% 2
East of England +3 3 - - 3
Midlands +3 3 £675 +3.85% 5
North East -1 1 £600 -27.18%
Private Cloud
UK

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (32.58%) Confluence
2 28 (31.46%) SharePoint
3 27 (30.34%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (3.37%) CMS
4 3 (3.37%) Drupal
5 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (46.07%) Azure
2 28 (31.46%) Azure Stack
3 8 (8.99%) AWS
4 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.49%) GCP
5 3 (3.37%) Datadog
6 2 (2.25%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.25%) SaaS
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.12%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.12%) Route 53
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (56.18%) Firewall
2 27 (30.34%) BGP
3 10 (11.24%) DNS
4 7 (7.87%) DHCP
5 5 (5.62%) VoIP
6 3 (3.37%) LAN
6 3 (3.37%) SD-WAN
6 3 (3.37%) SSL
6 3 (3.37%) WAN
6 3 (3.37%) WLAN
7 1 (1.12%) 5G
7 1 (1.12%) LTE
7 1 (1.12%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.12%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.12%) VPN
7 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.12%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 35 (39.33%) JIRA
2 6 (6.74%) Git
2 6 (6.74%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.37%) Artifactory
3 3 (3.37%) Selenium
3 3 (3.37%) Subversion
4 2 (2.25%) GitLab
General
1 33 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.37%) Finance
5 1 (1.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Analyst
2 17 (19.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (19.10%) Network Engineer
3 13 (14.61%) Microsoft Engineer
3 13 (14.61%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (12.36%) Architect
5 10 (11.24%) SOC Analyst
6 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Service Analyst
8 5 (5.62%) Service Management Analyst
8 5 (5.62%) VoIP Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Voice Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Senior
10 3 (3.37%) Technical Architect
11 2 (2.25%) Developer
11 2 (2.25%) Voice Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.12%) Django
1 1 (1.12%) Flask
1 1 (1.12%) LDAP
1 1 (1.12%) Node.js
1 1 (1.12%) React
1 1 (1.12%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.34%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.74%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.37%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.12%) PKI
5 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (32.58%) Windows
2 1 (1.12%) Unix
2 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.96%) ITIL
2 30 (33.71%) Network Management
3 29 (32.58%) Service Management
4 28 (31.46%) Capacity Management
4 28 (31.46%) Security Monitoring
5 25 (28.09%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (26.97%) ITSM
7 23 (25.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (21.35%) Resource Management
9 17 (19.10%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 16 (17.98%) Penetration Testing
11 15 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (15.73%) Knowledge Transfer
12 14 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (15.73%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 11 (12.36%) Backlog Management
14 10 (11.24%) Agile
15 9 (10.11%) DevOps
16 8 (8.99%) Project Delivery
16 8 (8.99%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.74%) Python
2 3 (3.37%) Bash
2 3 (3.37%) C
2 3 (3.37%) C++
2 3 (3.37%) Java
2 3 (3.37%) Perl
2 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.37%) Ruby
3 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (75.28%) Security Cleared
2 43 (48.31%) DV Cleared
3 22 (24.72%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.62%) Degree
5 2 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.25%) CISSP
5 2 (2.25%) VCAP
5 2 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (30.34%) Government Security Classifications
2 5 (5.62%) SLA
3 4 (4.49%) QA
4 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (20.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (19.10%) vSphere
3 4 (4.49%) Docker
4 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.25%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (20.22%) SCOM
2 13 (14.61%) vCenter Server
3 7 (7.87%) Ansible
3 7 (7.87%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.74%) Terraform
5 4 (4.49%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.37%) Nagios
6 3 (3.37%) Puppet
7 1 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (41.57%) Microsoft
2 27 (30.34%) Atlassian
3 23 (25.84%) VMware
4 5 (5.62%) Cisco
4 5 (5.62%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.37%) Dell
5 3 (3.37%) Fortinet
5 3 (3.37%) New Relic
5 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.37%) Splunk
5 3 (3.37%) Veeam
6 2 (2.25%) 3PAR
6 2 (2.25%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (2.25%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.12%) Ariba
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) SAP