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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 149 188
Rank change year-on-year +3 +39 +36
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 20 35 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.60% 0.74% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.49% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 16
10th Percentile £434 £413 £463
25th Percentile £453 £431 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £520 £725
90th Percentile £667 £600 £788
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £17.50
75th Percentile - £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £19.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year - +4.11% -29.81%

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 1,107 1,404 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.10% 29.83% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 989 1,480
10th Percentile £263 £263 £300
25th Percentile £388 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 75 45
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.07
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -41.60% +31.64%
75th Percentile £43.39 £22.38 £56.40
90th Percentile £83.75 £45.21 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.03% -38.94% +62.79%

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 31 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 31 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 +6 11 £463 +2.78% 27
Yorkshire +6 8 £550 +8.48% 2
North East -2 1 £475 - 4
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 5 (25.00%) Apache
1 5 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (15.00%) NetWeaver
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Maximo
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) GCP
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) CloudBees
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Slack
5 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Flink
2 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) ERwin
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Jasmine
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Data Modeller
3 3 (15.00%) Integration Developer
3 3 (15.00%) SAP Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Security Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Product Architect
5 1 (5.00%) SAS Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Middleware
2 4 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) EDI
3 3 (15.00%) IDoc
3 3 (15.00%) JDBC
3 3 (15.00%) JMS
3 3 (15.00%) SAP PI
3 3 (15.00%) SOAP
3 3 (15.00%) XML
3 3 (15.00%) XSLT
4 2 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (10.00%) Swagger
5 1 (5.00%) RESTful
5 1 (5.00%) Spring
5 1 (5.00%) Spring Batch
5 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.00%) Spring Security
5 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Workflow
5 5 (25.00%) Data Lineage
5 5 (25.00%) Data Management
5 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (25.00%) ETL
5 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 5 (25.00%) Workflow Management
6 4 (20.00%) SDLC
7 3 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (15.00%) Data Privacy
7 3 (15.00%) Kimball Methodology
7 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
7 3 (15.00%) System Integration Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) ABAP
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
3 2 (10.00%) QA
4 1 (5.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Google
2 4 (20.00%) SAP
3 3 (15.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow