Public Cloud Contracts in the South West

Public Cloud
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the South 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 108 129 123
Rank change year-on-year +21 -6 +30
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 3 28 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.88% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 2.65% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 30
10th Percentile £533 - £481
25th Percentile £544 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £769 £652
90th Percentile £718 - £781
England median daily rate £618 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +2.92% -4.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - - £76.13
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £38.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year +46.75% -49.01% +13.53%

All Generic Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 489 1,056 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.14% 33.01% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 647 702
10th Percentile £263 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £656
90th Percentile £676 £694 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 166 138
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.65 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.34
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the South West

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol +5 1 £575 - 8
Dorset +1 1 £700 -8.20% 6
Gloucestershire - 1 £550 - 18
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Angular 2
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google