Public Cloud Contracts with Work from Home Options

Public Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 232 231 182
Rank change year-on-year -1 -49 +47
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 110 243 678
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 1.02% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.56% 3.22% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 182 491
10th Percentile £463 £431 £400
25th Percentile £518 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £681
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £590 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -7.45% +6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £52.13 £45.60
25th Percentile £52.00 £53.81 -
Median hourly rate £54.00 £57.75 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% +5.88%
75th Percentile £56.00 £62.81 £82.50
90th Percentile - £65.18 £84.75
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £78.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -40.71% +44.44% -10.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Public Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Public Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public 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 Public Cloud.

Public Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Public Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public 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 Public Cloud.

Public Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public 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 14 (12.73%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.82%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.91%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.91%) CMS
3 1 (0.91%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.91%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.91%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.91%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 71 (64.55%) Azure
2 56 (50.91%) AWS
3 22 (20.00%) GCP
4 13 (11.82%) SaaS
5 10 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (7.27%) AWS CloudTrail
6 8 (7.27%) Serverless
7 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.45%) IaaS
9 5 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.55%) GitHub
9 5 (4.55%) PaaS
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.64%) Datadog
11 3 (2.73%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (2.73%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.55%) Firewall
2 13 (11.82%) VPN
3 11 (10.00%) LAN
3 11 (10.00%) WAN
4 4 (3.64%) BGP
5 3 (2.73%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.73%) Internet
5 3 (2.73%) IOS XR
5 3 (2.73%) MPLS
5 3 (2.73%) Network Security
5 3 (2.73%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.82%) HTTP
6 2 (1.82%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.82%) Wireless
7 1 (0.91%) DNS
7 1 (0.91%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.91%) IPsec
7 1 (0.91%) OSPF
7 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.36%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.73%) DB2
5 3 (2.73%) MySQL
5 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.73%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.82%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.82%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.82%) Redis
7 1 (0.91%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (10.91%) GitLab
1 12 (10.91%) JIRA
2 9 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.45%) Git
4 3 (2.73%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.82%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.82%) JMeter
5 2 (1.82%) Selenium
6 1 (0.91%) AppScan
6 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.91%) Hudson
6 1 (0.91%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.91%) Maven
6 1 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.91%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.91%) VisualWorks
General
1 37 (33.64%) Finance
2 31 (28.18%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 8 (7.27%) Banking
4 8 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.73%) Electronics
7 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.73%) Marketing
8 2 (1.82%) Billing
8 2 (1.82%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (40.00%) Architect
2 21 (19.09%) Technical Architect
3 15 (13.64%) Azure Architect
4 14 (12.73%) Consultant
4 14 (12.73%) Senior
5 12 (10.91%) Lead
6 11 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
6 11 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Integration Consultant
9 5 (4.55%) Lead Architect
9 5 (4.55%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) SaaS Consultant
9 5 (4.55%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.64%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.64%) Node.js
2 8 (7.27%) Middleware
3 6 (5.45%) .NET
3 6 (5.45%) JSON
3 6 (5.45%) REST
4 4 (3.64%) OAuth
5 3 (2.73%) Django
5 3 (2.73%) Kafka
5 3 (2.73%) LDAP
5 3 (2.73%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.73%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.73%) React
5 3 (2.73%) RESTful
5 3 (2.73%) SOAP
5 3 (2.73%) Swagger
5 3 (2.73%) YAML
5 3 (2.73%) YANG
6 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.82%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 9 (8.18%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.36%) Private Cloud
5 6 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.73%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.91%) BYOD
9 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.91%) IoT
9 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.91%) Replication
9 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.00%) Linux
2 21 (19.09%) Windows
3 12 (10.91%) Android
3 12 (10.91%) Apple iOS
4 10 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.73%) Unix
6 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.91%) VMS
6 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.36%) Agile
2 36 (32.73%) DevOps
3 27 (24.55%) CI/CD
4 16 (14.55%) Analytics
5 15 (13.64%) Security Architecture
6 14 (12.73%) Containerisation
6 14 (12.73%) Microservices
6 14 (12.73%) Test Automation
7 13 (11.82%) Design Patterns
8 12 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 11 (10.00%) Waterfall
10 10 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
10 10 (9.09%) Cloud Security
10 10 (9.09%) Machine Learning
10 10 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 10 (9.09%) Risk Management
10 10 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (9.09%) Zero Trust
11 9 (8.18%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.27%) Python
2 17 (15.45%) Java
3 11 (10.00%) SQL
4 8 (7.27%) Bash
4 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
5 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.55%) C
7 3 (2.73%) C#
7 3 (2.73%) Ruby
7 3 (2.73%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.82%) C++
8 2 (1.82%) Groovy
8 2 (1.82%) Perl
8 2 (1.82%) PHP
8 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.91%) Go
9 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.91%) Scala
9 1 (0.91%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 20 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.45%) Degree
3 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.82%) CISSP
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.91%) CCIE
5 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) QA
2 8 (7.27%) NCSC
2 8 (7.27%) NIST
3 5 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.64%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (14.55%) Docker
2 6 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.64%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.82%) vSphere
6 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (18.18%) Terraform
3 14 (12.73%) Ansible
4 6 (5.45%) Grafana
4 6 (5.45%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.55%) Puppet
6 4 (3.64%) Nagios
6 4 (3.64%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (1.82%) Graylog
7 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.91%) Argo
8 1 (0.91%) Consul
8 1 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.91%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.91%) Packer
8 1 (0.91%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.91%) Salt
Vendors
1 20 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) VMware
3 10 (9.09%) Databricks
4 9 (8.18%) Google
4 9 (8.18%) SAP
5 8 (7.27%) Splunk
6 7 (6.36%) ServiceNow
7 6 (5.45%) Cisco
8 5 (4.55%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.55%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.73%) Checkmarx
9 3 (2.73%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.82%) Confluent
10 2 (1.82%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.82%) IBM
10 2 (1.82%) Informatica
10 2 (1.82%) Oracle
10 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.82%) StreamSets
10 2 (1.82%) Zscaler