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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 54 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 +5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Public Cloud 18 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.85% 0.65% 1.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.20% 2.22% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 8
10th Percentile £330 £480 -
25th Percentile £343 £490 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £524 £638
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -17.84% +15.91%
75th Percentile £523 £560 £700
90th Percentile £600 £573 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £402 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -28.53% -6.25% +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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 250 135 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 39.62% 29.09% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 81 78
10th Percentile £306 £213 £213
25th Percentile £360 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £651
90th Percentile £600 £645 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -7.59% -2.10% +5.00%
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 £18.51 £14.63 £21.41
% change year-on-year +26.56% -31.67% +12.66%

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
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 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in South Yorkshire

Public Cloud
DemandTrendContract 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 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -1 18 £420 -19.81% 6
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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) GCP
3 6 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Presto
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Liquibase
2 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 15 (83.33%) Finance
2 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (44.44%) Banking
4 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 4 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Front Office
6 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.56%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) GCP Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) React Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Financial Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (33.33%) RESTful
2 5 (27.78%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
3 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (22.22%) Mainframe
4 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.56%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Microservices
2 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (33.33%) Budgeting
4 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Change Management
5 5 (27.78%) Cost Management
5 5 (27.78%) High Availability
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) Portfolio Management
5 5 (27.78%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Go
3 7 (38.89%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) HDFS
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Terraform
2 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (38.89%) Ansible
3 7 (38.89%) Grafana
3 7 (38.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) SCOM
4 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (16.67%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) IBM