Public Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 52 49
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% 1.35% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 3.85% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £394 £371 -
25th Percentile £441 £391 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £537 £523
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% +2.78% +1.46%
75th Percentile £641 - £582
90th Percentile £691 - -
North West median daily rate £350 £537 £850
% change year-on-year -34.82% -36.82% +41.67%

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 221 156 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.64% 35.14% 30.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 114 93
10th Percentile £313 £315 £297
25th Percentile £382 £358 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% -5.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £544 £552 £575
90th Percentile £646 £634 £613
North West median daily rate £456 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 17
10th Percentile £19.86 £29.46 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.75 £29.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% -10.96% +30.45%
75th Percentile £111.15 £33.75 £43.75
90th Percentile - £55.50 -
North West median hourly rate £52.78 £31.76 £25.25
% change year-on-year +66.17% +25.78% -27.86%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Cheshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

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 6 May 2026. 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 -26 1 £375 -30.17% 1
Warrington - 1 £700 -
Public Cloud
North West

Public 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%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) SAP