Cloud Computing Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Computing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 158 199
Rank change year-on-year +23 +41 +5
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 31 27 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.94% 0.57% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 1.92% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 14
10th Percentile £397 £401 £448
25th Percentile £446 £413 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £513 £634
90th Percentile £680 £590 £778
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £16.40 -
25th Percentile - £16.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% -
75th Percentile - £19.13 £19.00
90th Percentile - £19.20 £19.15
England median hourly rate £25.50 £18.75 £18.75
% change year-on-year +36.00% - -27.88%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +15 16 £466 +3.56% 47
Yorkshire +14 12 £600 +33.33% 24
North East 0 3 £358 - 8
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (25.81%) Confluence
2 5 (16.13%) Apache
2 5 (16.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (12.90%) NetWeaver
4 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.23%) Maximo
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
1 9 (29.03%) GCP
2 7 (22.58%) Slack
3 6 (19.35%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) CloudBees
5 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Apache Cassandra
1 7 (22.58%) MongoDB
1 7 (22.58%) MySQL
1 7 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (16.13%) Data Lake
2 5 (16.13%) Flink
3 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.68%) RDBMS
3 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) JIRA
2 7 (22.58%) Cucumber
2 7 (22.58%) Git
2 7 (22.58%) Jasmine
2 7 (22.58%) JUnit
3 3 (9.68%) ERwin
4 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Java Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Senior
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Architect
4 5 (16.13%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Integration Developer
5 4 (12.90%) SAP Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Data Modeller
6 3 (9.68%) Security Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Programme Manager
8 1 (3.23%) Head of Architecture
8 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Modeller
8 1 (3.23%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Swagger
2 7 (22.58%) OpenAPI
2 7 (22.58%) RESTful
2 7 (22.58%) Spring
2 7 (22.58%) Spring Boot
2 7 (22.58%) Spring Security
3 6 (19.35%) Middleware
3 6 (19.35%) Spring Batch
4 5 (16.13%) REST
5 4 (12.90%) EDI
5 4 (12.90%) IDoc
5 4 (12.90%) JDBC
5 4 (12.90%) JMS
5 4 (12.90%) SAP PI
5 4 (12.90%) SOAP
5 4 (12.90%) XML
5 4 (12.90%) XSLT
6 2 (6.45%) PySpark
7 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (12.90%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (12.90%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
1 7 (22.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) Data Modelling
3 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
4 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.81%) Microservices
4 8 (25.81%) TDD
5 7 (22.58%) API Design
5 7 (22.58%) BDD
5 7 (22.58%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (22.58%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (22.58%) OWASP
5 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
6 6 (19.35%) Integration Testing
6 6 (19.35%) Kernel Tuning
6 6 (19.35%) Workflow
7 5 (16.13%) Data Management
7 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) SQL
2 12 (38.71%) Java
3 7 (22.58%) Bash
3 7 (22.58%) Python
4 4 (12.90%) ABAP
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) Degree
4 3 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (9.68%) GDPR
3 2 (6.45%) QA
4 1 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Google
1 5 (16.13%) SAP
2 3 (9.68%) Databricks
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow