Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Cloud
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.13% - 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.58% - 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £603 - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.26%
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £625 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -32.26%

All Generic Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 153 65 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 24.76% 33.85% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 36 27
10th Percentile £306 £168 £361
25th Percentile £360 £398 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £475 £573 £555
90th Percentile £563 £638 £660
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 1
10th Percentile - £14.69 -
25th Percentile £43.96 £16.67 £18.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £19.97 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.49% +5.11% -40.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.99 £20.00
90th Percentile - £45.59 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £50.00 £19.97 £19.00
% change year-on-year +150.38% +5.11% -40.63%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Database
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (57.14%) RDBMS
2 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) AIX
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Data Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Backlog
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Review
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Data Guard
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle RMAN
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle