Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Public Cloud
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Halifax. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 4.00% - 13.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% - 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £600
% change year-on-year +3.09% -19.17% -

All Generic Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 28.00% 60.00% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £503 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £525 £525
90th Percentile £534 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £491 £450
% change year-on-year +1.78% +9.17% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 - -
75th Percentile £23.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £40.00 £16.58
% change year-on-year -64.38% +141.22% -11.32%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Halifax

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

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

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

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google