Private Cloud Contracts in the North West

Private Cloud
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Private Cloud over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 149 157
Rank change year-on-year +15 +8 -29
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 5 17 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.68% 1.58% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 12
10th Percentile £475 £422 £438
25th Percentile £494 £444 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.55% -2.05%
75th Percentile £531 £623 £664
90th Percentile £533 £629 £870
England median daily rate £538 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -17.23% +15.56% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -17.65% +61.90%

All Generic Skills
North West

Private 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 West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 732 1,078 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.68% 33.91% 34.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 722 1,069
10th Percentile £294 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £588
90th Percentile £672 £680 £673
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 45 63
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.25 £12.27
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +51.24% +3.35%
75th Percentile £42.19 £65.00 £39.14
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.19
England median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +34.13% -16.66% +2.08%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the North West

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the North West

Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in the North West

Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheshire +6 3 £513 -19.92%
Manchester +12 2 £513 +10.81% 5
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Nutanix
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VLAN
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) VCAP
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) 3PAR
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) Dell Compellent
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Nimble Storage
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam