Cloud Computing Contracts in the South West

Cloud Computing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing 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 125 101 153
Rank change year-on-year -24 +52 -38
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 32 59 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.97% 1.74% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 5.35% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 12
10th Percentile £593 £420 £268
25th Percentile £625 £520 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £456
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +31.51% -13.10%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £556
90th Percentile - - £598
England median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.25 -
England median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -26.92% +33.33%

All Cloud Skills
South West

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 828 1,102 1,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.10% 32.53% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 875 860
10th Percentile £213 £288 £255
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £654 £621
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 61 21
10th Percentile £13.52 £14.61 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £53.35 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.52% +148.14% -55.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the South West 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
Wiltshire -12 27 £650 -2.80%
Bristol -2 4 £575 +9.52% 6
Devon - 1 £600 - 1
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (87.50%) IaaS
1 28 (87.50%) PaaS
1 28 (87.50%) SaaS
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (84.38%) LAN
1 27 (84.38%) WAN
2 3 (9.38%) DNS
3 2 (6.25%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) 5G
4 1 (3.13%) 802.11
4 1 (3.13%) BGP
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.13%) HSRP
4 1 (3.13%) IPsec
4 1 (3.13%) LTE
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) OSPF
4 1 (3.13%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 27 (84.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (84.38%) Architect
1 27 (84.38%) Network Architect
2 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Developer
3 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
3 1 (3.13%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Wireless Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.13%) Django
1 1 (3.13%) Flask
1 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (84.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) Open Source
2 27 (84.38%) Business Strategy
2 27 (84.38%) Network Management
2 27 (84.38%) Zero Trust
3 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.25%) Project Management
5 1 (3.13%) Agile
5 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.13%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (3.13%) Network Design
5 1 (3.13%) OOP
5 1 (3.13%) Scrum
5 1 (3.13%) Service Management
5 1 (3.13%) Software Architecture
5 1 (3.13%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.13%) Statistics
5 1 (3.13%) Test Automation
5 1 (3.13%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 29 (90.63%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) CCNP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.13%) Cacti
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) VMware
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.13%) Veritas