Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Private Cloud
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 50 57
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% 0.22% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 0.56% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £468 - £467
25th Percentile £499 - £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - £494
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.71%
75th Percentile £603 - £511
90th Percentile £634 - £516
North West median daily rate £447 £644 £494
% change year-on-year -30.56% +30.38% -17.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
North West median hourly rate £69.38 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.49% - -

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 214 179 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.62% 39.69% 42.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 94 113
10th Percentile £258 £316 £433
25th Percentile £358 £367 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -6.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £565
90th Percentile £638 £638 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £489 £513
% change year-on-year -7.98% -4.59% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile - £20.46 £14.42
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.25 £26.71 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -39.15% +50.71% +2.10%
75th Percentile £30.44 £33.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £78.50 £54.20
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.75 £41.87
% change year-on-year +43.18% -24.16% +56.97%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in Cheshire

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Private Cloud

Private 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 Private Cloud within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Knutsford -20 2 £551 -
Private Cloud
North West

Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RAML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Servant Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle