Cloud Specialist Contracts

Cloud Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in the UK is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 655 752
Rank change year-on-year +105 +97 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 34 42 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.076% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.080% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 76
10th Percentile £500 £509 £450
25th Percentile £508 £572 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £631 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -2.88% +44.44%
75th Percentile £628 £680 -
90th Percentile £853 £688 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -11.85% +3.85% +79.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
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 Cloud Specialist within the UK 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
England +75 28 £538 -12.24% 20
London +74 17 £516 -14.85% 6
UK excluding London +31 14 £595 -11.85% 15
Work from Home +112 12 £539 -17.12% 9
South West - 5 - - 4
North of England +17 3 £763 +52.50% 3
Scotland - 3 £595 -
North West +15 2 £763 +52.50% 1
East of England - 2 £538 - 1
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 2
South East +8 1 £534 -21.51% 4
East Midlands - 1 £700 -
Midlands - 1 £700 - 4

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Cloud Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cloud Specialist in the job title.

1 14 (41.18%) Oracle
2 12 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (32.35%) Azure
3 11 (32.35%) AWS
4 9 (26.47%) Windows
4 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
4 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
4 9 (26.47%) OCI
5 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
5 8 (23.53%) Citrix
6 7 (20.59%) Finance
7 6 (17.65%) VMware
7 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
8 5 (14.71%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
8 5 (14.71%) SCCM
8 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
8 5 (14.71%) Data Reconciliation
8 5 (14.71%) Windows 10
8 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
8 5 (14.71%) System Integration Testing
8 5 (14.71%) Information Security
8 5 (14.71%) Law
8 5 (14.71%) Validation
8 5 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (11.76%) Service Delivery
9 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 11 (32.35%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) OCI
4 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) LAN
1 2 (5.88%) WAN
2 1 (2.94%) BGP
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) NAS
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) OSPF
2 1 (2.94%) SAN
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.94%) Wireless
2 1 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Law
4 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.94%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Clustering
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 5 (14.71%) Windows 10
2 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (14.71%) Data Reconciliation
1 5 (14.71%) Information Security
1 5 (14.71%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (14.71%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (14.71%) Validation
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (11.76%) ITIL
2 4 (11.76%) Migration
2 4 (11.76%) Service Delivery
2 4 (11.76%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (8.82%) Agile
3 3 (8.82%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security
3 3 (8.82%) Cost Control
3 3 (8.82%) Decision-Making
3 3 (8.82%) DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) Bash
2 1 (2.94%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.94%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) CIPD
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) SLA
2 2 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (5.88%) Docker
4 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) SCCM
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Oracle
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 8 (23.53%) Citrix
4 6 (17.65%) VMware
5 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.94%) Juniper
6 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat