Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Public Cloud
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 58 67
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 2 11 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.26% 1.32% 1.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 4.93% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 19
10th Percentile £318 £463 £515
25th Percentile £367 £495 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £552 £578 £613
90th Percentile £603 £586 £713
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -16.28% -10.42% +15.38%

All Generic Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 278 223 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 35.55% 26.74% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 148 249
10th Percentile £350 £259 £350
25th Percentile £440 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 9
10th Percentile - £12.15 £14.89
25th Percentile - £13.87 £17.22
Median hourly rate £21.30 £16.19 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.56% -14.79% -4.28%
75th Percentile - £26.88 £21.31
90th Percentile - £41.00 £23.16
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.03 £18.27 £21.31
% change year-on-year -6.79% -14.27% +12.16%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in West Yorkshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in West Yorkshire

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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 -11 2 £458 -12.86% 3
Public Cloud
Yorkshire

Public Cloud
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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow