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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 56 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 23 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.64% 0.45% 1.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.49% 1.52% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 8
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £393 £544 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -11.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £534 £581 £700
90th Percentile £688 - £708
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -16.28% -10.42% +17.07%

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 271 132 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.88% 29.46% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 77 78
10th Percentile £308 £211 £258
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -5.45% +7.84%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £625
90th Percentile £635 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -5.85% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.64% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.55 £15.17 £21.41
% change year-on-year +2.50% -29.13% +12.66%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Sheffield +5 23 £450 -20.00% 2
Public Cloud
Yorkshire

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) GCP
3 13 (56.52%) Serverless
4 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.04%) PowerApps
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Data Mining
2 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Liquibase
2 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
3 11 (47.83%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 21 (91.30%) Finance
2 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
3 14 (60.87%) Banking
4 11 (47.83%) Financial Institution
5 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Senior
2 10 (43.48%) Software Engineer
3 8 (34.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (34.78%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Software Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) GCP Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (4.35%) GCP DevOps
8 1 (4.35%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (56.52%) RESTful
2 12 (52.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Cloud Native
2 11 (47.83%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (21.74%) Data Centre
4 4 (17.39%) Mainframe
5 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Cost Optimisation
1 16 (69.57%) DevOps
2 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 15 (65.22%) Software Engineering
3 14 (60.87%) Agile
3 14 (60.87%) Continuous Delivery
3 14 (60.87%) Continuous Integration
3 14 (60.87%) Infrastructure Automation
3 14 (60.87%) Microservices
4 13 (56.52%) Containerisation
4 13 (56.52%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (56.52%) Non-Functional Testing
5 12 (52.17%) Change Management
5 12 (52.17%) High Availability
5 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (47.83%) Computer Science
6 11 (47.83%) Data Security
6 11 (47.83%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (43.48%) Cryptography
8 6 (26.09%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Go
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (47.83%) Degree
1 11 (47.83%) Master's Degree
2 8 (34.78%) AWS Certification
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Terraform
2 16 (69.57%) Kubernetes
3 14 (60.87%) Ansible
3 14 (60.87%) Grafana
3 14 (60.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) SCOM
4 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Splunk
2 8 (34.78%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) IBM