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

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 113 127
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 +10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Public Cloud 3 26 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.94% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 3.21% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 17
10th Percentile £536 £539 £513
25th Percentile £553 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -14.29% +14.75%
75th Percentile £678 £656 £738
90th Percentile £699 £769 £770
England median daily rate £600 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £54.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% -30.77% -4.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 624 809 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.28% 29.29% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 510 639
10th Percentile £225 £298 £300
25th Percentile £375 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 120 48
10th Percentile £6.00 £13.69 £17.56
25th Percentile £15.48 £45.00 £34.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% - +66.67%
75th Percentile £36.00 £72.50 £83.40
90th Percentile £77.96 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.43 £49.50 £43.42
% change year-on-year -36.52% +14.01% +66.99%

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Public Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol 0 2 £675 +17.39% 11
Wiltshire +11 1 £550 -8.33% 1
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) npm
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Release Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) VMware