Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Public Cloud
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 58 58
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 -14
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 21 18 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.86% 2.81% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.30% 6.92% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 2
10th Percentile £474 £330 £480
25th Percentile £550 £343 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £420 £524
Median % change year-on-year +35.23% -19.81% -17.84%
75th Percentile £683 £523 £560
90th Percentile £694 £600 £573
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £402 £563
% change year-on-year +36.82% -28.53% -6.25%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 488 260 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.15% 40.56% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 158 83
10th Percentile £355 £306 £213
25th Percentile £413 £360 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £431 £520
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -17.07% -5.45%
75th Percentile £597 £524 £600
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% -31.67%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in South Yorkshire

Public 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 Public Cloud within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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 -24 21 £568 +35.23% 1
Public Cloud
Yorkshire

Public 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) GCP
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) BGP
2 1 (4.76%) Calico
2 1 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (4.76%) NaaS
2 1 (4.76%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Lead
2 5 (23.81%) Design Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Network Design Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Network Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Senior Design Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior Network Design Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Leader
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Business Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Business Solution Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (14.29%) Middleware
3 3 (14.29%) Spring
3 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
1 5 (23.81%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (23.81%) Private Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (28.57%) Secrets Management
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
5 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
5 4 (19.05%) ERP
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
6 3 (14.29%) Fraud Detection
6 3 (14.29%) Intelligent Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Observability
6 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) SDLC
6 3 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Java
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Cilium
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Google
1 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) Splunk
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) RightScale
5 1 (4.76%) Arista
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Concur
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper