Private Cloud Contracts in the North of England

Private Cloud
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud 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 153 179 189
Rank change year-on-year +26 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 13 6 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.13% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 0.46% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 20
10th Percentile £358 £478 £506
25th Percentile £374 £494 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £513 £775
Median % change year-on-year -21.56% -33.87% +53.09%
75th Percentile £682 £533 £839
90th Percentile £744 £567 £850
England median daily rate £615 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +14.31% -17.23% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.65%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Private 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the North of England

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in the North of England

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud 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 +22 10 £402 -21.56% 13
Yorkshire - 3 £680 - 5
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
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 (38.46%) JBoss
1 5 (38.46%) Tomcat
1 5 (38.46%) WebSphere
2 4 (30.77%) WebLogic
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) Camunda
3 1 (7.69%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) DB2
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Hudson
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (7.69%) TestNG
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Billing
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Security Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum Master
3 4 (30.77%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Scrum Master
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
2 5 (38.46%) JSP
2 5 (38.46%) Servlets
2 5 (38.46%) SOAP
2 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
2 5 (38.46%) Web Services
3 4 (30.77%) EJB
3 4 (30.77%) J2EE
3 4 (30.77%) RAML
3 4 (30.77%) WSDL
4 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) CSS3
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) HTML5
4 2 (15.38%) Kafka
4 2 (15.38%) Middleware
5 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.69%) jBPM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) SDLC
3 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
3 5 (38.46%) Network Architecture
3 5 (38.46%) Security Management
4 4 (30.77%) API Development
4 4 (30.77%) Backlog Management
4 4 (30.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 4 (30.77%) Budget Control
4 4 (30.77%) OWASP
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Conflict Resolution
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Servant Leadership
5 3 (23.08%) Situational Awareness
6 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (30.77%) CCSP
1 4 (30.77%) CEH
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (30.77%) CISM
1 4 (30.77%) CISSP
1 4 (30.77%) OSCP
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) COBIT
1 4 (30.77%) NIST
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) 3PAR
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Brocade
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) EMC
3 1 (7.69%) HP
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) TIBCO