Public Cloud Contracts in the North West

Public Cloud
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 107 83 120
Rank change year-on-year -24 +37 -9
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 13 54 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 1.96% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 7.28% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 26
10th Percentile £388 £458 £456
25th Percentile £462 £582 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £850 £600
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% +41.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £614 - £656
90th Percentile £646 - £675
England median daily rate £618 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +2.92% -4.00% +2.04%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the North West

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the North West

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the North West

Public 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 Public Cloud within the North West 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
Manchester -18 7 £593 -30.29% 41
Cheshire -5 6 £537 -5.12% 9
Public Cloud
England

Public 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (7.69%) Maximo
2 1 (7.69%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
2 5 (38.46%) SuccessFactors
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) DynamoDB
2 3 (23.08%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Aviation
4 1 (7.69%) Local Government
4 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Architect
2 11 (84.62%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (30.77%) AWS Architect
3 4 (30.77%) AWS Solution Architect
3 4 (30.77%) SAP Architect
3 4 (30.77%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Java Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Java Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) HR Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) SAP HR Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) SAP HR Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (30.77%) RESTful
3 3 (23.08%) Middleware
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (53.85%) Microservices
3 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) Budget Control
5 4 (30.77%) Contingency Planning
5 4 (30.77%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
5 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
5 4 (30.77%) Project Planning
5 4 (30.77%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
6 3 (23.08%) Impact Assessments
6 3 (23.08%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.69%) CIPD
1 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
2 3 (23.08%) Concur
2 3 (23.08%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) VMware