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 26 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 55 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 -13 +12
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 42 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.19% 0.67% 2.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.92% 2.10% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 2 7
10th Percentile £363 £535 £465
25th Percentile £450 £536 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -8.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £656
90th Percentile £892 £577 £703
Yorkshire median daily rate £501 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +0.25% -16.67% +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 325 143 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 47.86% 32.13% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 85 78
10th Percentile £319 £209 £279
25th Percentile £388 £300 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -2.44% -3.30%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £598
90th Percentile £638 £638 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
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 £17.03 £38.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year -56.05% +81.84% +12.16%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +14 40 £476 -13.18% 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 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (83.33%) GCP
2 34 (80.95%) AWS
3 31 (73.81%) Serverless
4 8 (19.05%) AWS KMS
5 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.52%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.76%) Datadog
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub
6 2 (4.76%) Pulumi
6 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.38%) Azure
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (69.05%) NoSQL
2 14 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.52%) Data Mining
3 4 (9.52%) Power BI
3 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 27 (64.29%) GitLab
3 23 (54.76%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 38 (90.48%) Finance
2 33 (78.57%) Social Skills
3 28 (66.67%) Banking
4 23 (54.76%) Financial Institution
5 5 (11.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Senior
2 17 (40.48%) Cloud Engineer
2 17 (40.48%) Software Engineer
3 14 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (19.05%) AWS Software Engineer
8 7 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (14.29%) Analyst
10 5 (11.90%) GCP Software Engineer
10 5 (11.90%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (7.14%) Python Engineer
13 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
13 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 2 (4.76%) Data Analyst
13 2 (4.76%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (69.05%) Elastic Stack
1 29 (69.05%) RESTful
2 28 (66.67%) REST
3 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 27 (64.29%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (57.14%) Cloud Native
3 6 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 5 (11.90%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 29 (69.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (80.95%) DevOps
2 33 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 30 (71.43%) Agile
4 29 (69.05%) Containerisation
5 28 (66.67%) Computer Science
5 28 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
5 28 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (66.67%) Microservices
6 27 (64.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 27 (64.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 27 (64.29%) Non-Functional Testing
6 27 (64.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 26 (61.90%) Cryptography
8 25 (59.52%) Software Engineering
9 24 (57.14%) High Availability
10 23 (54.76%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (50.00%) Data Security
12 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure Automation
13 19 (45.24%) Change Management
14 18 (42.86%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 30 (71.43%) Go
1 30 (71.43%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) Java
3 4 (9.52%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (69.05%) Degree
2 28 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (61.90%) Master's Degree
4 9 (21.43%) AWS Certification
5 6 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 21 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (78.57%) Terraform
2 32 (76.19%) Kubernetes
3 30 (71.43%) Ansible
3 30 (71.43%) Grafana
3 30 (71.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.38%) SCOM
4 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (69.05%) Splunk
2 16 (38.10%) Google
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco
4 1 (2.38%) Citrix
4 1 (2.38%) Dell
4 1 (2.38%) HP
4 1 (2.38%) IBM