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 in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 47 57
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 6 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% 2.18% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.80% 7.05% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 3
10th Percentile £371 £445 £519
25th Percentile £391 £462 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £566 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +0.18% -4.24%
75th Percentile - £582 -
90th Percentile - £582 -
North West median daily rate £537 £850 £600
% change year-on-year -36.82% +41.67% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Public 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 158 156 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.19% 30.95% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 143
10th Percentile £314 £297 £263
25th Percentile £358 £425 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +13.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £553 £567 £580
90th Percentile £636 £606 £648
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 7
10th Percentile £29.46 £14.15 £21.89
25th Percentile £29.80 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +30.45% +47.26%
75th Percentile £33.75 £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £55.50 - £66.25
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 May 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 -8 6 £537 -7.73% 1
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (83.33%) Serverless
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Architect
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Java Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Java Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
2 4 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Budget Control
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Contingency Planning
2 4 (66.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Project Planning
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) GitOps
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) VMware