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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 48 57
Rank change year-on-year -35 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 19 23 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.68% 3.60% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.83% 8.46% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 1
10th Percentile £475 £343 -
25th Percentile £525 £393 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -20.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £694 £534 £581
90th Percentile - £688 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +22.22% -16.28% -10.42%

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 496 272 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.85% 42.57% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 163 77
10th Percentile £358 £308 £211
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% -13.46% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £622
90th Percentile £688 £635 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £486 £513
% change year-on-year +2.83% -5.12% +2.50%
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 £22.20 £15.55 £15.17
% change year-on-year +42.77% +2.50% -29.13%

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 September 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 September 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 -33 19 £550 +22.22% 5
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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) GCP
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (10.53%) Datadog
4 2 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (10.53%) npm
5 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) BGP
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Calico
2 1 (5.26%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (5.26%) NaaS
2 1 (5.26%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Maven
3 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Lead
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Design Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Network Design Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Design Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Network Design Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Business Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Business Solution Architect
5 2 (10.53%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (15.79%) Kafka
3 3 (15.79%) Spring
3 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
3 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
3 5 (26.32%) Private Cloud
4 3 (15.79%) AI Agents
5 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
1 6 (31.58%) Design Patterns
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (21.05%) DevSecOps
2 4 (21.05%) ERP
2 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.79%) AI
3 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
3 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (15.79%) Fraud Detection
3 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (15.79%) LLM
3 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.79%) Observability
3 3 (15.79%) SDLC
3 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (15.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Groovy
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) Go
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Cilium
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Google
2 5 (26.32%) SAP
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle
4 3 (15.79%) Mistral
4 3 (15.79%) Splunk
5 2 (10.53%) AppDynamics
5 2 (10.53%) Checkmarx
5 2 (10.53%) RightScale
6 1 (5.26%) Arista
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco
6 1 (5.26%) Concur
6 1 (5.26%) Juniper
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft