Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Private Cloud
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 72 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.18% 0.32% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £365 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.68% - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £365 -
% change year-on-year +50.68% - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 484 244 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.72% 39.29% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 151 78
10th Percentile £353 £306 £213
25th Percentile £413 £361 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £523
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -18.66% -9.13%
75th Percentile £594 £525 £597
90th Percentile £688 £600 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £514
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.59% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £14.61 - £20.41
25th Percentile £16.00 - £33.41
Median hourly rate £20.60 £15.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% -63.64% -
75th Percentile £22.20 - £41.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.72 £18.51 £14.63
% change year-on-year +44.35% +26.56% -31.98%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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
Sheffield -22 2 £550 +50.68% 10
Private Cloud
Yorkshire

Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google