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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 33 52
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 39 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.97% 2.14% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.60% 4.29% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 6 2
10th Percentile £359 £493 £338
25th Percentile £450 £536 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +14.50% -
75th Percentile £538 £613 £619
90th Percentile £892 £623 £683
Yorkshire median daily rate £518 £517 £563
% change year-on-year +0.10% -8.09% +4.65%

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 368 140 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 46.88% 49.82% 35.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 90 89
10th Percentile £316 £206 £387
25th Percentile £406 £232 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £587 £588
90th Percentile £660 £650 £658
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £11.75 £10.97
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £12.73
Median % change year-on-year - +6.09% +29.85%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +121.43% +78.57%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -19 36 £515 -10.04% 1
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 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (84.62%) GCP
2 31 (79.49%) AWS
3 29 (74.36%) Serverless
4 8 (20.51%) AWS KMS
5 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.26%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.13%) Datadog
6 2 (5.13%) Pulumi
6 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) VLAN
1 1 (2.56%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (69.23%) NoSQL
2 14 (35.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.26%) Data Mining
3 4 (10.26%) Power BI
3 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (64.10%) GitLab
1 25 (64.10%) Jenkins
2 22 (56.41%) Liquibase
General
1 36 (92.31%) Finance
2 30 (76.92%) Social Skills
3 27 (69.23%) Banking
4 21 (53.85%) Financial Institution
5 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Senior
1 17 (43.59%) Software Engineer
2 16 (41.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (35.90%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (30.77%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (20.51%) AWS Software Engineer
7 7 (17.95%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 7 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (15.38%) Analyst
9 5 (12.82%) GCP Software Engineer
9 5 (12.82%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (10.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
11 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 2 (5.13%) DevOps Specialist
11 2 (5.13%) GCP DevOps
11 2 (5.13%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (69.23%) Elastic Stack
1 27 (69.23%) REST
1 27 (69.23%) RESTful
2 2 (5.13%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 26 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (56.41%) Cloud Native
3 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
4 5 (12.82%) Mainframe
5 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (71.79%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) CentOS
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (84.62%) DevOps
2 31 (79.49%) CI/CD
3 28 (71.79%) Containerisation
4 27 (69.23%) Agile
5 26 (66.67%) Computer Science
5 26 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 26 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 25 (64.10%) Continuous Integration
6 25 (64.10%) Microservices
6 25 (64.10%) Non-Functional Testing
7 24 (61.54%) Continuous Delivery
7 24 (61.54%) Cryptography
7 24 (61.54%) Software Engineering
8 23 (58.97%) High Availability
9 22 (56.41%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (51.28%) Data Security
11 19 (48.72%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (46.15%) Change Management
13 17 (43.59%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 30 (76.92%) Python
2 29 (74.36%) Go
3 7 (17.95%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) SQL
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (69.23%) Degree
2 26 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (61.54%) Master's Degree
4 7 (17.95%) AWS Certification
5 4 (10.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 21 (53.85%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Ceph
2 1 (2.56%) KVM
2 1 (2.56%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 31 (79.49%) Terraform
2 30 (76.92%) Kubernetes
3 28 (71.79%) Ansible
4 27 (69.23%) Grafana
4 27 (69.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (69.23%) Splunk
2 14 (35.90%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft