Public Cloud Contracts in the North of England

Public Cloud
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public 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 149 120 119
Rank change year-on-year -29 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 17 66 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 1.38% 1.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 5.07% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 42 79
10th Percentile £361 £447 £431
25th Percentile £426 £541 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.89% +14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £617 £850 £700
90th Percentile £648 - £775
England median daily rate £618 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +2.92% -4.00% +2.04%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 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%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the North of England

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the North of England

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the North of England

Public 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 Public 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 -24 13 £537 -36.82% 56
Yorkshire 0 3 £481 -10.47% 37
North East 0 1 - - 14
Public Cloud
England

Public 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (5.88%) Maximo
2 1 (5.88%) SAP HR
2 1 (5.88%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
2 5 (29.41%) SuccessFactors
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) DynamoDB
2 3 (17.65%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Presto
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.76%) Legal
6 1 (5.88%) Aviation
6 1 (5.88%) Front Office
6 1 (5.88%) International Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Local Government
6 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Architect
2 11 (64.71%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Architect
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Solution Architect
3 4 (23.53%) SAP Architect
3 4 (23.53%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Java Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Java Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) SAP HR Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SAP HR Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SAP MM Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) SAP SD Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) SAP SD/MM Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Kafka
2 4 (23.53%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (23.53%) RESTful
3 3 (17.65%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (47.06%) Microservices
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) Event-Driven
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Budget Control
6 4 (23.53%) Contingency Planning
6 4 (23.53%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
6 4 (23.53%) Project Planning
6 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
6 4 (23.53%) SDLC
6 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (17.65%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) CIPD
3 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Concur
2 3 (17.65%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) VMware