Public Cloud Contracts in Cheshire

Public Cloud
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 57 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -11
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 8 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.60% 1.13% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.23% 2.46% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £535 £519 £209
25th Percentile £566 £536 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £565 £590
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -4.24% +12.38%
75th Percentile - - £644
90th Percentile £582 - £666
North West median daily rate £850 £600 £568
% change year-on-year +41.67% +5.73% +13.50%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Public 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 advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 153 244 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 30.54% 46.04% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 143 116
10th Percentile £306 £263 £193
25th Percentile £425 £326 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £428
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% +5.26% -3.17%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £575
90th Percentile £606 £648 £632
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 5
10th Percentile £14.15 £21.89 -
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.15 £9.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £27.98 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.45% +47.26% +6.15%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.88 £23.75
90th Percentile - £66.25 £26.30
North West median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.76% +51.24% +3.35%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Cheshire

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Cheshire

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Knutsford +12 7 £582 +3.01%
Public Cloud
North West

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DSL
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Jenkins
1 7 (87.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Build Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Unix
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (87.50%) Project Delivery
2 7 (87.50%) Server Building
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Ruby
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Progress Chef
2 7 (87.50%) CFEngine
2 7 (87.50%) PowerBroker
2 7 (87.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) VMware