Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in the North East

Public Cloud
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the North East. 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 70 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -36 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.90% 0.35% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.63% 1.16% 1.15%
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 - - -27.59%
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £584
% change year-on-year - +2.78% -6.22%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 193 86 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 24.84% 30.50% 36.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 46 45
10th Percentile £275 £168 £290
25th Percentile £356 £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +4.21%
75th Percentile £500 £584 £638
90th Percentile £638 £638 £823
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 6 3
10th Percentile £43.19 £16.12 -
25th Percentile £43.96 £19.15 -
Median hourly rate £46.98 £33.08 £11.44
Median % change year-on-year +42.04% +189.12% -64.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.55 £15.72
90th Percentile - £54.80 £18.29
England median hourly rate £43.56 £30.90 £47.50
% change year-on-year +40.96% -34.94% +15.74%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the North East

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 7 £625 - 10
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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