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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.74% - 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.06% - 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £493
25th Percentile £500 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.29%
75th Percentile £663 - £584
90th Percentile £685 - £590
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £565
% change year-on-year - - -19.29%

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 339 167 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 35.76% 35.68% 25.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 100 116
10th Percentile £324 £304 £316
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £561 £594
90th Percentile £675 £675 £622
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 32
10th Percentile - £36.81 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £44.81 £12.15
Median hourly rate £16.25 £62.25 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -73.90% +406.10% -42.79%
75th Percentile £18.79 £82.45 £15.19
90th Percentile £19.40 £92.11 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.06 £32.81 £12.90
% change year-on-year -44.96% +154.34% -40.00%

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 30 May 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 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Architect
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Data Migration Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (14.29%) SAP