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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 347 493
Rank change year-on-year -103 +146 +37
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 129 391 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.68% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 2.05% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 303 305
10th Percentile £463 £450 £438
25th Percentile £475 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £636 £725 £650
90th Percentile £688 £813 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £615 £525
% change year-on-year -14.63% +17.14% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 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 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -73 112 £538 -13.92% 51
UK excluding London -45 103 £525 -14.63% 38
South West -20 70 £500 -18.70% 5
Work from Home -14 36 £500 -16.67% 25
London +3 15 £641 -11.55% 14
South East +15 13 £625 +35.14% 7
Scotland +35 8 £630 +5.00% 2
North of England +5 6 £513 -27.56% 13
North West +3 5 £513 -2.38% 10
West Midlands +6 3 £675 +3.85% 3
East of England +5 3 - - 3
Midlands +3 3 £675 +3.85% 5
North East +3 1 £600 -27.18% 1

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 40 (31.01%) Confluence
2 35 (27.13%) SharePoint
2 35 (27.13%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (3.10%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.33%) CMS
4 3 (2.33%) Drupal
5 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.78%) IIS
5 1 (0.78%) JBoss
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.78%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.78%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.78%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 61 (47.29%) Azure
2 37 (28.68%) Azure Stack
3 20 (15.50%) AWS
4 10 (7.75%) GCP
5 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 5 (3.88%) GitHub
6 5 (3.88%) IaaS
6 5 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.10%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.33%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.33%) Datadog
8 3 (2.33%) Route 53
8 3 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (47.29%) Firewall
2 36 (27.91%) BGP
3 16 (12.40%) DNS
4 12 (9.30%) DHCP
5 6 (4.65%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.88%) VoIP
7 3 (2.33%) LAN
7 3 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (2.33%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.33%) SSL
7 3 (2.33%) VLAN
7 3 (2.33%) VPN
7 3 (2.33%) VSAN
7 3 (2.33%) WAN
7 3 (2.33%) WLAN
8 1 (0.78%) 5G
8 1 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.78%) LTE
8 1 (0.78%) Skype
8 1 (0.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.78%) MySQL
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.78%) Redis
4 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (37.21%) JIRA
2 12 (9.30%) Git
3 11 (8.53%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.88%) Artifactory
4 5 (3.88%) GitLab
5 4 (3.10%) Selenium
6 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.33%) Subversion
7 2 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.55%) Maven
7 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.78%) GoCD
General
1 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.95%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (7.75%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.65%) Finance
5 3 (2.33%) Banking
6 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.55%) Marketing
6 2 (1.55%) Retail
7 1 (0.78%) Billing
7 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Electronics
7 1 (0.78%) French Language
7 1 (0.78%) Front Office
7 1 (0.78%) German Language
7 1 (0.78%) Legal
7 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (17.83%) Architect
2 22 (17.05%) Analyst
3 19 (14.73%) Network Engineer
4 18 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (13.18%) Microsoft Engineer
6 12 (9.30%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (6.98%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Architect
9 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.65%) Security Architect
11 5 (3.88%) Developer
11 5 (3.88%) Senior
11 5 (3.88%) Service Analyst
11 5 (3.88%) Service Management Analyst
11 5 (3.88%) VoIP Engineer
12 4 (3.10%) Voice Engineer
13 3 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.88%) SailPoint
2 4 (3.10%) Node.js
3 3 (2.33%) LDAP
4 2 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.55%) React
5 1 (0.78%) .NET
5 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.78%) Django
5 1 (0.78%) Flask
5 1 (0.78%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.78%) Middleware
5 1 (0.78%) OpenFin
5 1 (0.78%) Playwright
5 1 (0.78%) Reactive Extensions
5 1 (0.78%) RxJS
5 1 (0.78%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.78%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.23%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.75%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.20%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.65%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.33%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (32.56%) Windows
2 9 (6.98%) Linux
3 3 (2.33%) Unix
4 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.01%) ITIL
2 38 (29.46%) Network Management
3 37 (28.68%) Service Management
4 36 (27.91%) Capacity Management
4 36 (27.91%) Security Monitoring
5 28 (21.71%) ITSM
6 27 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (19.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (14.73%) Agile
8 19 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (14.73%) DevOps
9 18 (13.95%) Resource Management
10 17 (13.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 15 (11.63%) Knowledge Transfer
11 15 (11.63%) Penetration Testing
12 14 (10.85%) Privileged Access Management
12 14 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 11 (8.53%) Backlog Management
15 10 (7.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.85%) Python
2 6 (4.65%) Bash
2 6 (4.65%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.88%) Java
4 4 (3.10%) Perl
5 3 (2.33%) C
5 3 (2.33%) C++
5 3 (2.33%) Ruby
5 3 (2.33%) SQL
6 1 (0.78%) C#
6 1 (0.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 90 (69.77%) Security Cleared
2 55 (42.64%) DV Cleared
3 35 (27.13%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.53%) Degree
5 2 (1.55%) VCAP
5 2 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (27.13%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (4.65%) QA
2 6 (4.65%) SLA
3 3 (2.33%) GRC
4 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (17.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (13.18%) vSphere
3 6 (4.65%) Docker
3 6 (4.65%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.78%) NFS
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (20.93%) SCOM
2 16 (12.40%) Terraform
3 15 (11.63%) Ansible
3 15 (11.63%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.63%) vCenter Server
4 6 (4.65%) Progress Chef
5 5 (3.88%) Puppet
6 3 (2.33%) Nagios
7 2 (1.55%) vRealize
8 1 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 48 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 35 (27.13%) Atlassian
3 31 (24.03%) VMware
4 6 (4.65%) CyberArk
4 6 (4.65%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.88%) Cisco
5 5 (3.88%) Oracle
5 5 (3.88%) SAP
6 4 (3.10%) Google
6 4 (3.10%) Splunk
7 3 (2.33%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.33%) New Relic
7 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.55%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.55%) Citrix
8 2 (1.55%) Dell
8 2 (1.55%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (1.55%) Mercator
8 2 (1.55%) Veeam