Public Cloud Contracts in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public 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 230 214 199
Rank change year-on-year -16 -15 +29
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 177 232 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.02% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.92% 3.19% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 168 294
10th Percentile £454 £404 £363
25th Percentile £500 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £621 £556
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +11.74% +5.90%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £590 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -7.45% +6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £74.25 -
25th Percentile £36.75 - £40.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.64% +92.59% -32.50%
75th Percentile £40.25 - £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £78.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -40.71% +44.44% -10.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Public 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 requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud 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 -10 61 £750 +25.00% 36
North West +30 52 £850 +45.92% 18
South West -5 30 £600 -11.11% 11
Scotland +61 26 £525 -6.67% 16
South East -12 25 £593 +7.73% 23
Midlands +11 22 £675 -3.57% 14
Wales +34 17 £513 +2.50% 2
West Midlands +7 13 £700 - 10
East Midlands +5 9 £473 -32.50% 4
Yorkshire -19 8 £550 -8.33% 15
North East -9 1 £525 -32.26% 3
East of England -15 1 - - 7
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
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 17 (9.60%) Confluence
2 5 (2.82%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.13%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 93 (52.54%) Azure
2 81 (45.76%) AWS
3 30 (16.95%) GCP
4 16 (9.04%) SaaS
5 15 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (7.34%) PaaS
7 9 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.08%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.95%) GitHub
9 7 (3.95%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.82%) AWS CloudTrail
11 5 (2.82%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.82%) IaaS
11 5 (2.82%) Serverless
12 4 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 52 (29.38%) VPN
2 38 (21.47%) Firewall
3 15 (8.47%) WAN
4 12 (6.78%) LAN
5 5 (2.82%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.26%) DNS
6 4 (2.26%) MPLS
6 4 (2.26%) Network Security
6 4 (2.26%) SSL
7 3 (1.69%) BGP
7 3 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.69%) IOS XR
8 2 (1.13%) SAN
9 1 (0.56%) DHCP
9 1 (0.56%) Internet
9 1 (0.56%) LTE
9 1 (0.56%) PBX
9 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.56%) VPLS
9 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.99%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.78%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.21%) MySQL
4 7 (3.95%) DB2
5 5 (2.82%) Data Hub
5 5 (2.82%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.26%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.69%) Big Data
7 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.56%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (9.60%) JIRA
2 13 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.08%) Bitbucket
3 9 (5.08%) GitLab
4 8 (4.52%) Git
5 6 (3.39%) Burp Suite
5 6 (3.39%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.82%) AppScan
6 5 (2.82%) JMeter
6 5 (2.82%) Selenium
6 5 (2.82%) Spinnaker
7 3 (1.69%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.56%) Maven
8 1 (0.56%) Postman
8 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 50 (28.25%) Finance
2 34 (19.21%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.34%) Banking
6 11 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.39%) Legal
9 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.69%) Automotive
11 3 (1.69%) Billing
12 2 (1.13%) Electronics
12 2 (1.13%) Marketing
13 1 (0.56%) Military
13 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (41.81%) Architect
2 48 (27.12%) Technical Architect
3 41 (23.16%) Lead
4 29 (16.38%) Technical Leader
5 28 (15.82%) Lead Architect
6 14 (7.91%) Azure Architect
6 14 (7.91%) Cloud Architect
7 13 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.65%) Consultant
10 8 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Senior
11 7 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Developer
11 7 (3.95%) Full Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) DBA
12 6 (3.39%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 5 (2.82%) Administrator
13 5 (2.82%) Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.82%) Node.js
2 14 (7.91%) .NET
2 14 (7.91%) AngularJS
3 13 (7.34%) REST
4 11 (6.21%) CSS
4 11 (6.21%) HTML
4 11 (6.21%) Middleware
5 10 (5.65%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (5.65%) JPA
5 10 (5.65%) Spring
5 10 (5.65%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.39%) ModSecurity
6 6 (3.39%) RESTful
7 5 (2.82%) Kafka
7 5 (2.82%) OAuth
8 4 (2.26%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.26%) JSON
8 4 (2.26%) Keycloak
8 4 (2.26%) React
8 4 (2.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.04%) Security Posture
2 14 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.78%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.21%) NHS
5 8 (4.52%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.52%) PKI
6 7 (3.95%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.39%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.26%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.69%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (35.03%) Windows
2 40 (22.60%) Linux
3 39 (22.03%) Windows Server
4 37 (20.90%) Android
4 37 (20.90%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.82%) zOS
6 3 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.13%) Unix
7 2 (1.13%) VMS
8 1 (0.56%) AIX
8 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (50.85%) Agile
2 71 (40.11%) DevOps
3 59 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 40 (22.60%) Security Architecture
5 36 (20.34%) Microservices
6 34 (19.21%) Design Patterns
7 33 (18.64%) Mobile Device Management
7 33 (18.64%) Zero Trust
8 31 (17.51%) Risk Management
9 28 (15.82%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 28 (15.82%) Threat Intelligence
10 27 (15.25%) Roadmaps
11 22 (12.43%) Machine Learning
12 20 (11.30%) Architectural Patterns
12 20 (11.30%) Project Management
12 20 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (10.73%) Containerisation
13 19 (10.73%) Waterfall
14 18 (10.17%) Analytics
14 18 (10.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.38%) Python
2 27 (15.25%) Java
3 21 (11.86%) SQL
4 16 (9.04%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.78%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.21%) Bash
7 8 (4.52%) C
8 6 (3.39%) Ruby
9 4 (2.26%) C#
9 4 (2.26%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.26%) PHP
10 3 (1.69%) C++
10 3 (1.69%) Perl
10 3 (1.69%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Groovy
11 1 (0.56%) R
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.60%) Degree
4 6 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.26%) HND
6 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.13%) CCIE
7 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.13%) SANS
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.56%) MCSE
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.99%) QA
2 11 (6.21%) NIST
3 8 (4.52%) NCSC
4 7 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.26%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.69%) HL7
7 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 29 (16.38%) Docker
2 14 (7.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.65%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.39%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.82%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.56%) XenApp
8 1 (0.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 29 (16.38%) Ansible
3 25 (14.12%) Terraform
4 11 (6.21%) Grafana
4 11 (6.21%) Progress Chef
4 11 (6.21%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.65%) Graylog
5 10 (5.65%) Nagios
5 10 (5.65%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (5.08%) Puppet
7 6 (3.39%) OPNET
8 5 (2.82%) HP Fortify
8 5 (2.82%) Istio
8 5 (2.82%) Nessus
8 5 (2.82%) WebInspect
9 4 (2.26%) PowerCLI
9 4 (2.26%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.56%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 39 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.30%) Splunk
3 19 (10.73%) VMware
4 15 (8.47%) Google
5 12 (6.78%) Databricks
6 10 (5.65%) Oracle
7 9 (5.08%) Cisco
8 8 (4.52%) Atlassian
8 8 (4.52%) SAP
9 6 (3.39%) Checkmarx
9 6 (3.39%) F5
9 6 (3.39%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.82%) Apple
10 5 (2.82%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.82%) Veracode
11 4 (2.26%) WSO2
11 4 (2.26%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.69%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.69%) New Relic
12 3 (1.69%) TOWER Software