Public Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 27 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 118 132
Rank change year-on-year -29 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 43 52 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.07% 1.25% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.06% 4.33% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 57
10th Percentile £351 £445 £431
25th Percentile £423 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -6.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £569 £594 £625
90th Percentile £698 £850 £700
England median daily rate £593 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +5.80% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £58.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £56.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -19.64% -28.21% -2.50%

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 1,406 1,202 1,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.99% 28.96% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 663 965
10th Percentile £288 £238 £256
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £694 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 53 57
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.15 £15.73
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.22 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.32 £22.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.73% -29.69% +58.97%
75th Percentile £54.38 £46.18 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.29 £63.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.50 £57.35 £45.11
% change year-on-year -46.82% +27.15% +76.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the North of England

Public Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 27 September 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
Yorkshire +4 26 £450 -16.28% 11
North West -24 16 £450 -13.92% 16
North East -9 1 - - 2
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 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (16.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (2.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 23 (53.49%) AWS
2 18 (41.86%) GCP
3 16 (37.21%) Serverless
4 6 (13.95%) SuccessFactors
5 5 (11.63%) Azure
6 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
6 4 (9.30%) PowerApps
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Firewall
1 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.30%) Data Mining
2 4 (9.30%) Power BI
2 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (34.88%) Liquibase
2 14 (32.56%) Jenkins
3 11 (25.58%) GitLab
4 3 (6.98%) JIRA
5 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
General
1 29 (67.44%) Finance
2 20 (46.51%) Social Skills
3 18 (41.86%) Banking
4 11 (25.58%) Financial Institution
5 7 (16.28%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
7 5 (11.63%) Local Government
8 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (4.65%) Legal
9 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Senior
2 11 (25.58%) Analyst
3 10 (23.26%) Architect
3 10 (23.26%) Software Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) SAP Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) SAP Test Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Test Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Architect
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Solution Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow Architect
8 2 (4.65%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) RESTful
2 14 (32.56%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (27.91%) REST
4 4 (9.30%) Kafka
5 2 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (37.21%) Cloud Native
2 11 (25.58%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (23.26%) Data Centre
4 5 (11.63%) Mainframe
5 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
5 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.65%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
7 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) Agile
1 18 (41.86%) Microservices
2 17 (39.53%) CI/CD
2 17 (39.53%) Containerisation
2 17 (39.53%) Cost Optimisation
2 17 (39.53%) DevOps
3 16 (37.21%) Infrastructure Automation
4 15 (34.88%) Software Engineering
5 14 (32.56%) Continuous Delivery
5 14 (32.56%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (32.56%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (30.23%) Non-Functional Testing
7 12 (27.91%) Change Management
7 12 (27.91%) High Availability
8 11 (25.58%) Computer Science
8 11 (25.58%) Data Security
8 11 (25.58%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (23.26%) Cryptography
10 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Go
1 15 (34.88%) Python
2 14 (32.56%) Java
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Degree
2 11 (25.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (25.58%) Master's Degree
3 10 (23.26%) AWS Certification
4 7 (16.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (11.63%) ISTQB
5 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.33%) BC Cleared
8 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.33%) CISM
8 1 (2.33%) CISSP
8 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.33%) NIST
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 15 (34.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (44.19%) Terraform
2 18 (41.86%) Kubernetes
3 16 (37.21%) Ansible
4 15 (34.88%) Grafana
4 15 (34.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.65%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Splunk
2 8 (18.60%) Google
3 7 (16.28%) SAP
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.65%) Dell
6 2 (4.65%) VMware
7 1 (2.33%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.33%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (2.33%) Cisco
7 1 (2.33%) Citrix
7 1 (2.33%) Concur
7 1 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.33%) HP
7 1 (2.33%) IBM
7 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.33%) NetApp
7 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.33%) Veeam