Public Cloud Contracts in Sheffield

Public Cloud
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 47 54 31
Rank change year-on-year +7 -23 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 3 1 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.94% 0.26% 5.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.46% 0.75% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 24
10th Percentile £341 - £500
25th Percentile £392 £473 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £485 £610
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -20.49% +10.91%
75th Percentile £567 £498 £700
90th Percentile £617 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £485 £610
% change year-on-year -0.77% -20.49% +12.70%

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 122 133 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.24% 35.09% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 99
10th Percentile £306 £395 £417
25th Percentile £375 £429 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £694
90th Percentile £650 £648 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +5.56% -25.00% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £10.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £17.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.88% +13.38%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £12.75 £10.63
% change year-on-year - +19.94% -44.41%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Sheffield

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Sheffield

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Sheffield

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) International Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM