Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cloud Computing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 60 87
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 +37
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 2 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.26% 1.54% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 3.77% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 4
10th Percentile £507 - £415
25th Percentile £508 £288 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £350 £463
Median % change year-on-year +48.21% -24.32% -33.93%
75th Percentile £533 £450 £569
90th Percentile £536 £475 £693
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +13.89% - -30.77%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 329 345 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.40% 40.83% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 245 320
10th Percentile £309 £335 £350
25th Percentile £385 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.54% +0.24%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £603 £653 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £493 £525
% change year-on-year -3.55% -6.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +627.27% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £200.00 £22.00 £21.26
% change year-on-year +809.09% +3.51% -5.53%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in West Yorkshire

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Leeds -13 2 £519 +48.21% 1
Cloud Computing
Yorkshire

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Monorepo
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet