Cloud Computing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 288 275 338
Rank change year-on-year -13 +63 -35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 114 156 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 2.10% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 116 94
10th Percentile £245 £425 £203
25th Percentile £413 £475 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £487
Median % change year-on-year - +12.95% -2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £575
90th Percentile - £719 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £547
% change year-on-year - +5.22% +4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.69 £23.00
90th Percentile £74.30 £53.17 £25.10
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
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 Cloud Computing 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
North of England +42 44 £450 -21.74% 23
South West -24 32 £650 +8.33% 12
Yorkshire +33 24 £463 -19.57% 5
South East +8 17 £313 -40.46% 26
North West +16 15 £450 -21.74% 16
East of England +5 9 £575 +6.98% 4
North East - 5 - - 2
Wales - 5 £91 - 1
West Midlands +3 4 £345 -34.29% 11
Midlands -6 4 £345 -31.00% 23
Scotland +34 3 £475 -7.32% 11
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
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 13 (11.40%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.14%) Apache
3 6 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) JBoss
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.33%) AWS
2 36 (31.58%) Azure
2 36 (31.58%) IaaS
2 36 (31.58%) PaaS
2 36 (31.58%) SaaS
3 23 (20.18%) GCP
4 14 (12.28%) Serverless
5 12 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.89%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 6 (5.26%) GitHub
8 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.39%) BrowserStack
9 4 (3.51%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.63%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 3 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.63%) Vertex AI
10 3 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.75%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.75%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 30 (26.32%) LAN
1 30 (26.32%) WAN
2 6 (5.26%) DNS
3 5 (4.39%) Firewall
4 4 (3.51%) VPN
5 3 (2.63%) BGP
5 3 (2.63%) IPsec
5 3 (2.63%) MQTT
5 3 (2.63%) Network Security
5 3 (2.63%) OSPF
5 3 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.63%) Wireless
6 2 (1.75%) 802.11
6 2 (1.75%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.75%) DHCP
6 2 (1.75%) HSRP
6 2 (1.75%) Internet
6 2 (1.75%) SAN
6 2 (1.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.28%) Big Data
1 14 (12.28%) Data Lake
2 12 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
2 12 (10.53%) BigQuery
2 12 (10.53%) Hadoop
3 9 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (7.89%) MySQL
3 9 (7.89%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.63%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.63%) Bigtable
7 3 (2.63%) Cloud Spanner
7 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.63%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.75%) Power BI
9 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.88%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 17 (14.91%) Git
2 11 (9.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.39%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.88%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.88%) JMeter
4 1 (0.88%) JUnit
4 1 (0.88%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 33 (28.95%) Public Sector
2 24 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.02%) Banking
4 8 (7.02%) Finance
5 7 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.14%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.39%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.88%) Automotive
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (44.74%) Architect
2 27 (23.68%) Network Architect
3 19 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.14%) Analyst
6 6 (5.26%) Junior
6 6 (5.26%) Senior
7 5 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.39%) Developer
7 5 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Full Stack Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Junior DevOps
7 5 (4.39%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.28%) Kafka
2 7 (6.14%) React
3 5 (4.39%) Next.js
3 5 (4.39%) RESTful
4 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.75%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.75%) CSS
5 2 (1.75%) HTML
5 2 (1.75%) Node.js
5 2 (1.75%) Pandas
6 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.88%) Django
6 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.88%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.88%) LangChain
6 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.88%) Spring
6 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.88%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.89%) IoT
3 7 (6.14%) Robotics
4 6 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.39%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.75%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.75%) PKI
9 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.88%) Clustering
9 1 (0.88%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) iSeries
9 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.89%) Windows
2 5 (4.39%) Linux
3 4 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.75%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.75%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.75%) Unix
4 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.82%) Business Strategy
2 31 (27.19%) Open Source
3 27 (23.68%) Network Management
3 27 (23.68%) Zero Trust
4 26 (22.81%) DevOps
5 21 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (17.54%) CI/CD
7 19 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 18 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (14.91%) High Availability
10 16 (14.04%) Agile
10 16 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (12.28%) Data Modelling
12 13 (11.40%) Computer Science
12 13 (11.40%) Migration
13 12 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (10.53%) Data Integration
13 12 (10.53%) Roadmaps
14 11 (9.65%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.56%) Python
2 26 (22.81%) SQL
3 25 (21.93%) Java
4 9 (7.89%) Bash
5 7 (6.14%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.39%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.63%) Scala
9 1 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.32%) DV Cleared
3 16 (14.04%) Degree
4 9 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.63%) CCNP
6 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.88%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) CCDP
7 1 (0.88%) CCIP
7 1 (0.88%) CCNA
7 1 (0.88%) MCP
7 1 (0.88%) MCSE
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) MOS
7 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.75%) COBIT
2 2 (1.75%) QA
2 2 (1.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (8.77%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.63%) HDFS
5 2 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.75%) vSphere
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (14.91%) Terraform
2 10 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.14%) Grafana
4 5 (4.39%) SCCM
5 2 (1.75%) Cacti
5 2 (1.75%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.75%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.88%) Ansible
6 1 (0.88%) Kibana
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.88%) Nessus
6 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (18.42%) Google
1 21 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Cisco
3 7 (6.14%) VMware
4 4 (3.51%) Informatica
5 3 (2.63%) Dell
5 3 (2.63%) SAP
5 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.63%) Splunk
5 3 (2.63%) Veritas
6 2 (1.75%) Brocade
6 2 (1.75%) Huawei
6 2 (1.75%) Meraki
6 2 (1.75%) NetApp
6 2 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.88%) Avaya
7 1 (0.88%) Juniper
7 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) Remedy
7 1 (0.88%) Sophos