Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Public Cloud
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 62 59
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 10 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.95% 0.18% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.67% 0.44% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £473 - £523
25th Percentile £513 £285 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £290 £565
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% -48.67% -5.83%
75th Percentile £616 £295 £584
90th Percentile £674 - £590
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £290 £565
% change year-on-year +81.03% -48.67% -5.83%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 375 228 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 35.78% 40.21% 28.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 141 120
10th Percentile £400 £350 £292
25th Percentile £456 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £594
90th Percentile £666 £613 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 31
10th Percentile £18.67 - -
25th Percentile - £84.83 £12.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £91.69 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -52.06% +561.07% -34.91%
75th Percentile - £98.56 £15.19
90th Percentile - - £19.50
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £28.00 £59.60 £13.87
% change year-on-year -53.02% +329.67% -34.91%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Leeds

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Leeds

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Migration Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) SDLC
2 3 (30.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Data Discovery
4 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (20.00%) F5
1 2 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) SAP