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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 4.88% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £458 £525
% change year-on-year +14.75% -12.86% -12.50%

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 19 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 46.34% 38.46% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £518 £316 -
25th Percentile £538 £406 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -18.37% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £544 £619
90th Percentile £620 £570 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.72 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £28.00 £21.30 £14.63
% change year-on-year +31.46% +45.64% -23.03%

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 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Product Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Google