Public Cloud Contracts in Cheshire

Public Cloud
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 34 65
Rank change year-on-year -6 +31 -15
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 11 16 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.14% 3.95% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.73% 9.88% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 1
10th Percentile £452 £480 -
25th Percentile £481 £491 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% +16.47% -21.30%
75th Percentile £555 £496 £438
90th Percentile £571 £534 -
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £675
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +26.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 - -

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 192 162 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 37.43% 40.00% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 100 166
10th Percentile £343 £408 £263
25th Percentile £425 £495 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +20.00%
75th Percentile £556 £586 £629
90th Percentile £651 £625 £633
North West median daily rate £486 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.80% +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £18.72 £14.42 £12.13
25th Percentile £21.05 £17.25 £12.48
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% +1.01% +33.27%
75th Percentile £50.84 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £81.50 £65.00 £23.47
North West median hourly rate £31.75 £42.50 £21.78
% change year-on-year -25.29% +95.13% +17.73%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Cheshire

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Cheshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Cheshire

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Knutsford -12 10 £523 +5.61%
Public Cloud
North West

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Azure
3 9 (81.82%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DB2
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) Integration Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) SaaS Consultant
3 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Java Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Java Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) React
2 1 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (54.55%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) Mainframe
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Android
1 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Change Management
1 7 (63.64%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
2 6 (54.55%) Observability
2 6 (54.55%) Security Monitoring
2 6 (54.55%) SIEM
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) API Design
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 1 (9.09%) Budget Control
6 1 (9.09%) ITSM
6 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) C
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Consul
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
1 6 (54.55%) Salesforce
1 6 (54.55%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) VMware