Private Cloud Contracts with Work from Home Options

Private Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 308 306 405
Rank change year-on-year -2 +99 +23
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 33 152 226
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.64% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.77% 2.02% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 110 165
10th Percentile £460 £456 £438
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £637 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £544 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -9.33% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile - - £73.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -9.68% -
75th Percentile - - £83.13
90th Percentile - - £85.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +47.37% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Private Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Private Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Private Cloud.

Private Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Private Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Private Cloud.

Private Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (51.52%) Confluence
2 13 (39.39%) SharePoint
2 13 (39.39%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (6.06%) OpenStack
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) Azure
2 15 (45.45%) AWS
3 13 (39.39%) Azure Stack
4 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub
5 4 (12.12%) IaaS
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (9.09%) Apigee
6 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 3 (9.09%) Route 53
6 3 (9.09%) Serverless
6 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (48.48%) Firewall
2 14 (42.42%) BGP
3 3 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.03%) 5G
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.03%) DHCP
5 1 (3.03%) DNS
5 1 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (3.03%) IPv6
5 1 (3.03%) LTE
5 1 (3.03%) MPLS
5 1 (3.03%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (3.03%) SAN
5 1 (3.03%) VPN
5 1 (3.03%) VXLAN
5 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Redis
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (51.52%) JIRA
2 8 (24.24%) Git
3 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.12%) GitLab
5 3 (9.09%) Artifactory
5 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 3 (9.09%) Maven
5 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 3 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.03%) Selenium
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft Engineer
2 11 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Design Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Information Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Information Security Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) SAP Architect
6 1 (3.03%) SAP Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Node.js
2 3 (9.09%) LDAP
3 2 (6.06%) React
4 1 (3.03%) .NET
4 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.03%) Django
4 1 (3.03%) Flask
4 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.03%) gRPC
4 1 (3.03%) OpenFin
4 1 (3.03%) Playwright
4 1 (3.03%) Reactive Extensions
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Data Centre
2 7 (21.21%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Capacity Management
1 13 (39.39%) ITIL
1 13 (39.39%) ITSM
1 13 (39.39%) Network Management
1 13 (39.39%) Security Monitoring
1 13 (39.39%) Service Management
2 12 (36.36%) DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
4 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
4 7 (21.21%) High Availability
5 6 (18.18%) Open Source
6 5 (15.15%) Coaching
6 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.15%) Scrum
6 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (12.12%) Kanban
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (9.09%) Resilience Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.09%) Ruby
4 2 (6.06%) C
4 2 (6.06%) C++
4 2 (6.06%) Perl
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (57.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (39.39%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (39.39%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) SCOM
2 12 (36.36%) Terraform
3 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 7 (21.21%) Ansible
5 3 (9.09%) Progress Chef
5 3 (9.09%) Puppet
6 2 (6.06%) Nagios
7 1 (3.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (39.39%) Atlassian
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle
3 4 (12.12%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.06%) Mercator
5 2 (6.06%) New Relic
5 2 (6.06%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco
6 1 (3.03%) Finsemble
6 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) SAP