Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in the North West

Private Cloud
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 110 130
Rank change year-on-year -23 +20 +20
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 12 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.48% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.34% 1.04% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £374 £400 £447
25th Percentile £413 £452 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £644 £494
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% +30.38% -17.71%
75th Percentile £638 £677 £519
90th Percentile £688 £715 -
England median daily rate £575 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £61.20 - -
25th Percentile £63.38 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £69.38 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% - -
75th Percentile £73.01 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £73.76 - -
England median hourly rate £69.38 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.49% - -

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 893 672 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.85% 31.15% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 361 544
10th Percentile £196 £208 £256
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -6.73% +2.50%
75th Percentile £571 £563 £594
90th Percentile £638 £663 £666
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 38 36
10th Percentile £16.42 £19.91 £14.99
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.62 £20.38
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.75 £41.87
Median % change year-on-year +43.18% -24.16% +19.61%
75th Percentile £56.69 £33.75 £46.35
90th Percentile £73.29 £63.85 £64.38
England median hourly rate £28.06 £37.50 £43.92
% change year-on-year -25.17% -14.62% +25.39%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the North West

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the North West over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the North West

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Manchester -7 7 £511 -23.12% 2
Cheshire -20 2 £551 -
Lancashire - 2 - -
Merseyside -4 1 £330 -17.50% 1
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (8.33%) JBoss
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (8.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) IaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Collaboration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Functional Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) RAML
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) WSDL
2 1 (8.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
2 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Unix
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 4 (33.33%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (8.33%) Budget Control
4 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
4 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Implementation
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix
2 4 (33.33%) F5
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) HP
3 3 (25.00%) IBM
3 3 (25.00%) Veeam
4 2 (16.67%) Dell
4 2 (16.67%) NetApp
5 1 (8.33%) Ariba
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco
5 1 (8.33%) Concur
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (8.33%) SAP