Private Cloud Contracts 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 132 132
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 +40
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 12 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.58% 0.18% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 0.70% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 10
10th Percentile £358 - £410
25th Percentile £380 £494 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £523 £488
Median % change year-on-year -23.06% +7.18% -9.30%
75th Percentile £447 £565 £604
90th Percentile £645 £609 £650
England median daily rate £575 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +6.88% -13.92% +7.76%
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 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 604 712 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.36% 25.62% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 445 627
10th Percentile £269 £297 £288
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.36%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £611
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 74 37
10th Percentile £22.65 £13.00 £16.76
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% -6.14% +47.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £53.35
90th Percentile £79.65 £57.50 £68.20
England median hourly rate £32.85 £36.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +55.32% -11.32%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the North West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Private Cloud in the North West

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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 2 July 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
Cheshire -3 7 £393 -29.82% 1
Manchester +15 4 £661 +29.02% 20
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (50.00%) JBoss
2 6 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 5 (41.67%) WebLogic
4 1 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Apache
4 1 (8.33%) Camunda
4 1 (8.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) IaaS
3 3 (25.00%) PaaS
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (41.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (8.33%) Hudson
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Billing
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Scrum Master
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Java Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) REST
1 6 (50.00%) SOAP
1 6 (50.00%) Spring
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 5 (41.67%) JSP
2 5 (41.67%) Middleware
2 5 (41.67%) RAML
2 5 (41.67%) Servlets
2 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (41.67%) WSDL
3 4 (33.33%) EJB
3 4 (33.33%) J2EE
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) CSS3
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5
4 2 (16.67%) Kafka
5 1 (8.33%) Node.js
5 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) Scrum
3 7 (58.33%) SDLC
4 5 (41.67%) API Development
4 5 (41.67%) Backlog Management
4 5 (41.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 5 (41.67%) Budget Control
4 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
5 4 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
6 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
7 2 (16.67%) DevOps
8 1 (8.33%) Analytics
8 1 (8.33%) Customer Analytics
8 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Java
3 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) IBM
4 3 (25.00%) Citrix
4 3 (25.00%) F5
4 3 (25.00%) HP
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (8.33%) Adobe
6 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (8.33%) TIBCO