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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 160 159
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +81
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Private Cloud 17 6 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.14% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 0.51% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 26
10th Percentile £358 £494 £350
25th Percentile £374 £498 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £541 £481
Median % change year-on-year -25.73% +12.47% -18.26%
75th Percentile £440 £591 £713
90th Percentile £604 £619 £775
England median daily rate £596 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +11.19% -2.50% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,394 1,177 1,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.62% 27.94% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 693 944
10th Percentile £281 £277 £256
25th Percentile £375 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £558 £600 £596
90th Percentile £638 £711 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 80 54
10th Percentile £17.54 £12.15 £15.52
25th Percentile £22.75 £13.50 £16.94
Median hourly rate £40.59 £16.52 £28.49
Median % change year-on-year +145.70% -42.01% +46.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.88 £45.88
90th Percentile £76.75 £58.45 £65.10
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.82
% change year-on-year -35.90% +9.12% +76.23%

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

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Private Cloud

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 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the North of England

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
DemandTrendContract 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 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +6 15 £402 -23.06% 16
Yorkshire - 2 £365 - 7
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 9 (52.94%) WebSphere
2 6 (35.29%) JBoss
2 6 (35.29%) Tomcat
3 5 (29.41%) WebLogic
4 1 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Apache
4 1 (5.88%) Camunda
4 1 (5.88%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) IaaS
3 3 (17.65%) PaaS
3 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) DB2
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) Hudson
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
4 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Billing
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Scrum Master
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Functional Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Architect
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) REST
2 6 (35.29%) SOAP
2 6 (35.29%) Spring
2 6 (35.29%) Web Services
3 5 (29.41%) JSP
3 5 (29.41%) Middleware
3 5 (29.41%) RAML
3 5 (29.41%) Servlets
3 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 5 (29.41%) WSDL
4 4 (23.53%) EJB
4 4 (23.53%) J2EE
5 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (11.76%) CSS
5 2 (11.76%) CSS3
5 2 (11.76%) HTML
5 2 (11.76%) HTML5
5 2 (11.76%) Kafka
6 1 (5.88%) pytest
6 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Replication
4 1 (5.88%) Blockchain
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Scrum
2 8 (47.06%) SDLC
3 5 (29.41%) API Development
3 5 (29.41%) Backlog Management
3 5 (29.41%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 5 (29.41%) Budget Control
3 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
3 5 (29.41%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) Conflict Resolution
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) Servant Leadership
4 4 (23.53%) Situational Awareness
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
6 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Operations
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
1 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.88%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
1 8 (47.06%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) HP
2 4 (23.53%) IBM
3 3 (17.65%) Citrix
3 3 (17.65%) F5
4 2 (11.76%) Dell
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) NetApp
4 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 2 (11.76%) Veeam
5 1 (5.88%) 3PAR
5 1 (5.88%) Adobe
5 1 (5.88%) Ariba
5 1 (5.88%) Brocade
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) Concur
5 1 (5.88%) EMC
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.88%) TIBCO