Enterprise Cloud Contracts

Enterprise Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 643 744
Rank change year-on-year +101 +101 -93
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 37 41 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.073% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.22% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 61
10th Percentile £399 £456 £456
25th Percentile £433 £525 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -2.00% +26.26%
75th Percentile £555 £700 £713
90th Percentile £675 £775 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £656
% change year-on-year -3.89% -20.72% +38.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.25 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 - -
75th Percentile £32.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Enterprise Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,790 29,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.06% 33.33% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,316 12,953 20,440
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 610 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.20 £10.63 £17.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
% change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%

Enterprise Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Enterprise Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Cloud in the UK

Enterprise Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Cloud in the UK

Enterprise Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Cloud in the UK

Enterprise Cloud
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +86 28 £500 -18.37% 17
London +90 19 £513 -16.33% 7
UK excluding London +60 18 £500 -3.89% 8
Work from Home +103 9 £445 -29.22% 7
Scotland - 6 - -
South West - 6 £500 - 1
North of England +27 3 £500 -3.89% 1
North West +14 3 £500 -3.89%
Isle of Man - 3 - -
South East - 2 £738 - 3
Midlands +24 1 £1,200 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £1,200 -

Enterprise Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.70%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 14 (37.84%) AWS
3 13 (35.14%) SaaS
4 8 (21.62%) IaaS
4 8 (21.62%) PaaS
5 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
5 4 (10.81%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Kerberos
2 2 (5.41%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) WAN
3 1 (2.70%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) FTP
3 1 (2.70%) LAN
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Bitbucket
1 7 (18.92%) Git
1 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Katalon Studio
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Local Government
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Billing
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Architect
2 10 (27.03%) Enterprise Architect
3 9 (24.32%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Business Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Account Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Lead
7 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (2.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) JSON
1 6 (16.22%) LDAP
1 6 (16.22%) OpenID
1 6 (16.22%) REST
1 6 (16.22%) RESTful
1 6 (16.22%) Web Services
1 6 (16.22%) XML
2 2 (5.41%) CSS
2 2 (5.41%) YAML
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Agile
2 7 (18.92%) Cloud Security
2 7 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (18.92%) Data Architecture
2 7 (18.92%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (18.92%) IT Strategy
3 6 (16.22%) Data Design
3 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
3 6 (16.22%) OO
3 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
3 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
3 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) ERP
4 4 (10.81%) Migration
4 4 (10.81%) TOGAF
5 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.11%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (8.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) C
1 6 (16.22%) Go
2 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Java
3 2 (5.41%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) Korn
4 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.70%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) CEH
3 1 (2.70%) CISSP
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) NFS
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.70%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.70%) HP SIM
3 1 (2.70%) SCCM
3 1 (2.70%) SCDPM
3 1 (2.70%) SCVMM
3 1 (2.70%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (2.70%) systemd
3 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) Cadence
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) Citrix
4 1 (2.70%) Commvault
4 1 (2.70%) Foundry
4 1 (2.70%) HP
4 1 (2.70%) Okta
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Symantec
4 1 (2.70%) Veritas
4 1 (2.70%) Workday