Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Public Cloud
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.40% - 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% - 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £315 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 - £575
75th Percentile £345 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% -2.17%

All Generic Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 84 52 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 33.47% 22.91% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 14
10th Percentile £150 £140 £193
25th Percentile £151 £164 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £250 £400
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -37.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £518 £497 £573
90th Percentile £698 £559 £651
North West median daily rate £450 £486 £513
% change year-on-year -7.41% -5.17% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - £18.46 £18.80
25th Percentile £15.62 £19.11 £22.63
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.19 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -30.38% +65.15%
75th Percentile £18.54 £21.60 £29.50
90th Percentile £19.89 £22.44 £29.80
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.75 £41.87
% change year-on-year +43.18% -24.16% +35.77%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 1 £330 -
Public Cloud
North West

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware