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 8 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 48 64
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 11 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.45% 1.04% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.23% 3.76% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £489 - £518
25th Percentile - £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -19.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £496 -
90th Percentile £653 £499 £615
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £600
% change year-on-year +3.09% -19.17% -

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 260 133 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 34.35% 27.77% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 87 129
10th Percentile £326 £263 £291
25th Percentile £450 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £569
90th Percentile £623 £730 £603
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile - £33.28 £12.15
25th Percentile - £35.99 £12.20
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +203.70% -37.21%
75th Percentile £15.29 £69.07 £15.19
90th Percentile £17.60 £85.61 £15.25
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.25 £38.75 £14.63
% change year-on-year -60.65% +164.96% -21.79%

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 8 February 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) GCP
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Mocha
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Architect
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) Express.js
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) Jest
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
1 4 (36.36%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (27.27%) Microservices
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Information Security
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
3 2 (18.18%) SIEM
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) CCSP
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) PSD2
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Istio
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) F5
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow