Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Public Cloud
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.04% - 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.02% - 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £603 - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.26%
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
North East median daily rate £625 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -27.59%

All Generic Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 174 66 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.82% 30.84% 34.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 37 29
10th Percentile £288 £169 £362
25th Percentile £343 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £588
90th Percentile £585 £638 £688
North East median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 3 1
10th Percentile - £14.69 -
25th Percentile £43.96 £16.67 £18.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.97 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.38% +5.11% -40.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.99 £20.00
90th Percentile - £45.59 -
North East median hourly rate £46.98 £33.08 £11.44
% change year-on-year +42.04% +189.12% -64.25%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 7 £625 - 9
Public Cloud
North East

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (14.29%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Database
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (57.14%) RDBMS
2 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) AIX
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Data Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Backlog
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Review
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Data Guard
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle RMAN
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle