Public Cloud Contracts in the North of England

Public Cloud
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 113 139
Rank change year-on-year -13 +26 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 58 106 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.24% 1.86% 1.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.68% 6.07% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 78 75
10th Percentile £445 £429 £363
25th Percentile £541 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £650
90th Percentile - £775 £725
England median daily rate £610 £625 £605
% change year-on-year -2.40% +3.31% +15.24%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,239 1,745 2,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.50% 30.69% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 1,173 1,811
10th Percentile £266 £288 £200
25th Percentile £400 £410 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £583 £619 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 80 102
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.06
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.85 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -9.41% +5.08%
75th Percentile £26.62 £42.24 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.72 £44.00
England median hourly rate £32.75 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +45.65% -16.66% +2.92%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the North of England

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the North of England

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the North of England

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 West +25 48 £850 +41.67% 19
Yorkshire -19 9 £550 - 18
North East -9 1 £525 -32.26% 7
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (1.72%) Confluence
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) AWS
2 17 (29.31%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.90%) GitHub
5 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.17%) SaaS
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) Serverless
7 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.72%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (53.45%) Firewall
2 30 (51.72%) VPN
3 2 (3.45%) DSL
3 2 (3.45%) SSL
4 1 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (1.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.62%) DB2
3 4 (6.90%) MySQL
3 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.45%) Data Hub
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.62%) GitLab
3 4 (6.90%) AppScan
3 4 (6.90%) Burp Suite
3 4 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.17%) Git
4 3 (5.17%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) Postman
5 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (25.86%) Finance
2 10 (17.24%) Banking
3 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.34%) Legal
4 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Billing
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (62.07%) Architect
2 31 (53.45%) Technical Architect
3 27 (46.55%) Lead
3 27 (46.55%) Technical Leader
4 26 (44.83%) Lead Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Commercial Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Contracts Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Digital Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Digital Technical Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Site Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Lead Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Senior
7 2 (3.45%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (46.55%) Node.js
2 4 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.17%) .NET
3 3 (5.17%) React
4 2 (3.45%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.72%) JSON
5 1 (1.72%) Kafka
5 1 (1.72%) OAuth
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.62%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.17%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.45%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.72%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.72%) PKI
6 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Replication
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (65.52%) Windows
2 34 (58.62%) Android
2 34 (58.62%) Apple iOS
3 31 (53.45%) Windows Server
4 12 (20.69%) Linux
5 3 (5.17%) Unix
5 3 (5.17%) zOS
6 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (74.14%) Agile
2 42 (72.41%) DevOps
3 37 (63.79%) CI/CD
4 31 (53.45%) Mobile Device Management
5 30 (51.72%) Design Patterns
5 30 (51.72%) Risk Management
6 29 (50.00%) Security Architecture
7 28 (48.28%) Zero Trust
8 27 (46.55%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 27 (46.55%) Threat Intelligence
9 19 (32.76%) Microservices
10 16 (27.59%) Roadmaps
11 13 (22.41%) Containerisation
12 12 (20.69%) Product Strategy
12 12 (20.69%) Strategic Roadmap
13 10 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (15.52%) Product Roadmap
15 8 (13.79%) Change Control
15 8 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) Python
2 4 (6.90%) Bash
2 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.17%) C
3 3 (5.17%) Java
4 2 (3.45%) Ruby
4 2 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.72%) Degree
3 1 (1.72%) MCSE
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) QA
1 4 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Ansible
2 8 (13.79%) Progress Chef
3 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.07%) Puppet
4 6 (10.34%) Terraform
5 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.90%) Grafana
6 4 (6.90%) Graylog
6 4 (6.90%) HP Fortify
6 4 (6.90%) Nessus
6 4 (6.90%) WebInspect
7 2 (3.45%) CFEngine
7 2 (3.45%) PowerBroker
7 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.72%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.72%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Google
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
1 6 (10.34%) Splunk
2 5 (8.62%) Apple
3 4 (6.90%) Checkmarx
3 4 (6.90%) Oracle
3 4 (6.90%) Veracode
4 3 (5.17%) F5
5 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.45%) Databricks
5 2 (3.45%) Sage
5 2 (3.45%) VMware
6 1 (1.72%) CA
6 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.72%) Dell
6 1 (1.72%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) Tanium
6 1 (1.72%) Zscaler