Public Cloud Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 61 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 -20 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 7 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.37% 0.40% 2.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.76% 1.49% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 13
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £392 £473 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £485 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -28.15% +12.50%
75th Percentile £528 £498 £700
90th Percentile £601 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £448 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -18.64% -8.33% +14.29%

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 186 134 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.47% 26.96% 30.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 72 94
10th Percentile £356 £242 £263
25th Percentile £388 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £514 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% -10.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £628 £622 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 27
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile - £12.25 £9.80
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.25 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +71.68% -46.56%
75th Percentile - £41.88 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.76 £14.63 £10.63
% change year-on-year +35.08% +37.58% -48.85%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in South Yorkshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 7 £448 -7.73% 12
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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Presto
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Liquibase
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 1 (14.29%) Front Office
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) International Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) React Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Storytelling
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) HDFS
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) SCOM
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk