Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Public Cloud
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in 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 86 90 82
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 26 13 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.67% 0.87% 1.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.41% 3.03% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 29
10th Percentile £341 £463 £435
25th Percentile £379 £496 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -10.42% +15.38%
75th Percentile £553 £580 £625
90th Percentile £663 £585 £705
England median daily rate £593 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +5.80% -6.67% -

All Generic Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 589 429 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.76% 28.79% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 262 361
10th Percentile £297 £193 £280
25th Percentile £385 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £638 £698 £651
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 15
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £14.83
25th Percentile £15.41 £13.97 £17.86
Median hourly rate £17.03 £18.27 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% -14.27% +12.16%
75th Percentile £19.21 £41.88 £22.13
90th Percentile £29.84 £53.50 £37.11
England median hourly rate £30.50 £57.35 £45.11
% change year-on-year -46.82% +27.15% +76.26%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Yorkshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Yorkshire

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Yorkshire +7 24 £450 -20.00% 1
West Yorkshire -16 2 £458 -12.86% 4
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) AWS
2 17 (65.38%) GCP
3 13 (50.00%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 4 (15.38%) PowerApps
5 2 (7.69%) Azure
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (15.38%) Data Mining
2 4 (15.38%) Power BI
2 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (57.69%) Liquibase
2 12 (46.15%) Jenkins
3 11 (42.31%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 22 (84.62%) Finance
2 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
3 15 (57.69%) Banking
4 11 (42.31%) Financial Institution
5 5 (19.23%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Senior
2 10 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) Analyst
5 5 (19.23%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Architect
8 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
8 2 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) GCP Software Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) GCP DevOps
9 1 (3.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (50.00%) RESTful
2 12 (46.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 11 (42.31%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (26.92%) Data Centre
4 5 (19.23%) Mainframe
5 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Cost Optimisation
2 16 (61.54%) DevOps
3 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 15 (57.69%) Software Engineering
4 14 (53.85%) Agile
4 14 (53.85%) Continuous Delivery
4 14 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
4 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure Automation
4 14 (53.85%) Microservices
5 13 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 13 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 12 (46.15%) Change Management
6 12 (46.15%) High Availability
6 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (42.31%) Computer Science
7 11 (42.31%) Data Security
7 11 (42.31%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (38.46%) Cryptography
9 7 (26.92%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Go
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 11 (42.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (42.31%) Master's Degree
3 8 (30.77%) AWS Certification
4 6 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Terraform
2 16 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 14 (53.85%) Ansible
3 14 (53.85%) Grafana
3 14 (53.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.85%) SCOM
4 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Splunk
2 8 (30.77%) Google
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow