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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 134 135
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 +28
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 9 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.19% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 0.73% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile £358 £475 £422
25th Percentile £374 £494 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.32% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £472 £531 £623
90th Percentile £682 £533 £629
England median daily rate £600 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +11.52% -13.92% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
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 555 689 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.29% 25.88% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 453 663
10th Percentile £203 £285 £304
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £575 £612
90th Percentile £653 £685 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 78 41
10th Percentile £22.72 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.80 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -27.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £59.30 £37.44 £66.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -2.94% +51.21% -16.66%

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 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in the North West

Private Cloud
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 20 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
Cheshire +3 6 £384 -25.07%
Manchester +20 2 £678 +32.20% 11
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 5 (55.56%) JBoss
1 5 (55.56%) Tomcat
1 5 (55.56%) WebSphere
2 4 (44.44%) WebLogic
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) Camunda
3 1 (11.11%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Hudson
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Scrum Master
2 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Java Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Spring
2 5 (55.56%) JSP
2 5 (55.56%) REST
2 5 (55.56%) Servlets
2 5 (55.56%) SOAP
2 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) Web Services
3 4 (44.44%) EJB
3 4 (44.44%) J2EE
3 4 (44.44%) RAML
3 4 (44.44%) WSDL
4 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) Kafka
4 2 (22.22%) Middleware
5 1 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (44.44%) API Development
2 4 (44.44%) Backlog Management
2 4 (44.44%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (44.44%) Budget Control
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
4 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Security Management
5 1 (11.11%) Distributed Cache
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (11.11%) CCSP
1 1 (11.11%) CEH
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) OSCP
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) COBIT
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
3 1 (11.11%) VMware