Private Cloud Contracts in England

Private Cloud
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 459 370
Rank change year-on-year +53 -89 +118
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 80 100 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.27% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 0.88% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 88 236
10th Percentile £358 £463 £450
25th Percentile £402 £475 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £537 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% -14.16% +7.76%
75th Percentile £700 £607 £738
90th Percentile £779 £688 £820
UK median daily rate £585 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +8.74% -10.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £72.00
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +47.37%

All Generic Skills
England

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 requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,715 11,382 15,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.70% 30.40% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,596 7,313 10,964
10th Percentile £304 £280 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £801 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 852 542
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.16 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.25 £15.39 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.05 £37.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +64.55% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.22 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £36.00 £22.41
% change year-on-year -11.78% +60.64% -16.94%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in England.

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in England.

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in England

Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Private Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
London +68 46 £650 +9.70% 55
North of England +23 10 £384 -29.05% 15
South East +47 9 £450 -29.41% 19
North West +7 9 £384 -26.51% 12
South West +3 8 £588 +17.50% 6
East of England +24 3 £420 - 3
Midlands +12 3 £900 +33.33% 8
West Midlands +5 2 £900 +33.33% 8
Yorkshire - 1 £365 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £358 -
Private Cloud
UK

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (11.25%) WebSphere
2 7 (8.75%) JBoss
2 7 (8.75%) Tomcat
3 6 (7.50%) WebLogic
4 5 (6.25%) Apache
5 3 (3.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (2.50%) nginx
7 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (1.25%) Camunda
7 1 (1.25%) CMS
7 1 (1.25%) Confluence
7 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.75%) Primavera
3 2 (2.50%) assyst
3 2 (2.50%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (1.25%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.25%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.25%) SAP LE
4 1 (1.25%) SAP MII
4 1 (1.25%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.25%) SAP PP
4 1 (1.25%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 33 (41.25%) Azure
2 25 (31.25%) AWS
3 11 (13.75%) SaaS
4 10 (12.50%) GCP
4 10 (12.50%) IaaS
5 9 (11.25%) OpenShift
5 9 (11.25%) PaaS
6 8 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.25%) Akamai
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) DNS
2 4 (5.00%) Network Security
2 4 (5.00%) SAN
2 4 (5.00%) VPN
2 4 (5.00%) WAN
3 3 (3.75%) VLAN
4 2 (2.50%) BGP
4 2 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (2.50%) HTTP
4 2 (2.50%) IPsec
4 2 (2.50%) LAN
4 2 (2.50%) Multicast
4 2 (2.50%) OSPF
4 2 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.50%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.50%) SNMP
4 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.50%) VSAN
4 2 (2.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) DB2
2 5 (6.25%) Big Data
3 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.50%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) MySQL
5 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.50%) Redis
5 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.50%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Bitbucket
2 11 (13.75%) Git
3 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.25%) GitLab
5 3 (3.75%) JIRA
5 3 (3.75%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.25%) Hudson
6 1 (1.25%) Selenium
6 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.25%) TestNG
General
1 18 (22.50%) Finance
2 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Banking
5 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.75%) Law
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) Billing
9 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Military
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (37.50%) Architect
2 16 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (13.75%) Lead
4 10 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Consultant
6 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Scrum Master
7 5 (6.25%) Network Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (6.25%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Project Planner
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) REST
2 9 (11.25%) Middleware
2 9 (11.25%) SOAP
3 7 (8.75%) Web Services
4 6 (7.50%) RAML
4 6 (7.50%) React
4 6 (7.50%) Spring
4 6 (7.50%) WSDL
5 5 (6.25%) .NET
5 5 (6.25%) CSS
5 5 (6.25%) HTML
5 5 (6.25%) JSP
5 5 (6.25%) Servlets
5 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (5.00%) EJB
6 4 (5.00%) J2EE
6 4 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Public Cloud
2 11 (13.75%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Replication
6 2 (2.50%) CMDB
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.25%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.25%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Unix
2 7 (8.75%) Windows
3 6 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.25%) Agile
2 17 (21.25%) Migration
3 15 (18.75%) DevOps
4 14 (17.50%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.25%) Configuration Management
5 13 (16.25%) SDLC
6 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
7 10 (12.50%) High Availability
8 9 (11.25%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (11.25%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.00%) Scrum
10 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.75%) Waterfall
11 6 (7.50%) API Development
11 6 (7.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 6 (7.50%) Budget Control
11 6 (7.50%) Software Engineering
11 6 (7.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) JavaScript
2 16 (20.00%) SQL
3 13 (16.25%) Java
3 13 (16.25%) Python
4 12 (15.00%) C#
5 10 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.75%) Go
8 2 (2.50%) Bash
8 2 (2.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Degree
3 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.50%) JNCIA
4 2 (2.50%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.25%) CCNP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) P3O
2 2 (2.50%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.00%) Docker
3 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (6.25%) vSphere
5 4 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (5.00%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.75%) vCloud
6 3 (3.75%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (2.50%) Firmware
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.25%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Kibana
3 4 (5.00%) Terraform
4 2 (2.50%) Grafana
4 2 (2.50%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (1.25%) Consul
5 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) VMware
2 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.75%) Oracle
4 9 (11.25%) Red Hat
4 9 (11.25%) SAP
5 5 (6.25%) Cisco
5 5 (6.25%) F5
5 5 (6.25%) Google
6 3 (3.75%) HP
6 3 (3.75%) IBM
7 2 (2.50%) Citrix
7 2 (2.50%) Ericsson
7 2 (2.50%) Juniper
7 2 (2.50%) Nokia
7 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.25%) Confluent
8 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.25%) Mavenir
8 1 (1.25%) TIBCO
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