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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 47 56
Rank change year-on-year -41 +9 -19
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 14 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.36% 1.89% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.28% 5.00% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile £427 £379 -
25th Percentile £513 £485 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £599 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.45% -25.10%
75th Percentile £892 £623 £498
90th Percentile - £636 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £599 £485
% change year-on-year -8.14% +23.45% -11.82%

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 427 140 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 41.62% 37.74% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 93 86
10th Percentile £358 £305 £358
25th Percentile £417 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £448
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +6.15% -23.01%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £572
90th Percentile £684 £650 £598
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 - £11.04
Median hourly rate £18.01 - £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.18%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £36.91 £14.63
% change year-on-year +11.10% +152.34% +37.58%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -38 13 £576 -3.81%
Doncaster - 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 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) GCP
2 7 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
1 1 (7.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
1 5 (35.71%) Liquibase
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
3 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) GCP DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (14.29%) GCP Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (21.43%) Middleware
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (14.29%) Kafka
4 2 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Change Management
4 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (35.71%) Data Security
5 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (28.57%) High Availability
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Secrets Management
7 3 (21.43%) ERP
7 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
7 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (21.43%) Storage Management
7 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (21.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Go
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Ceph
2 1 (7.14%) KVM
2 1 (7.14%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Terraform
3 5 (35.71%) Ansible
4 4 (28.57%) Grafana
4 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 3 (21.43%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) SAP
3 2 (14.29%) RightScale
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft