Cloud Computing Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Computing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 198 213
Rank change year-on-year +44 +15 -49
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 30 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 0.96% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 18
10th Percentile £403 £448 £299
25th Percentile £422 £553 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +6.98% +4.88%
75th Percentile £522 £634 £708
90th Percentile £600 £778 £750
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £16.40 - -
25th Percentile £16.63 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -
75th Percentile £19.13 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £19.20 - -
England median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -32.69% +33.33%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,376 2,076 2,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.44% 36.57% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 1,549 1,898
10th Percentile £263 £300 £190
25th Percentile £386 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £643 £680 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 39 76
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.09 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +93.17% +7.89%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £21.00 £33.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.84% +54.65% -

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North West +19 17 £450 -21.74% 12
Yorkshire +22 10 £450 -37.93% 14
North East - 3 - - 5
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (16.67%) Apache
1 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 4 (13.33%) IaaS
4 4 (13.33%) PaaS
4 4 (13.33%) SaaS
4 4 (13.33%) Serverless
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.00%) BrowserStack
5 3 (10.00%) GitHub
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 3 (10.00%) Vertex AI
5 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 2 (6.67%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) MQTT
2 1 (3.33%) Internet
2 1 (3.33%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) MySQL
2 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (10.00%) Big Data
4 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (10.00%) Bigtable
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.67%) Apache Hive
5 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.67%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Manufacturing
3 4 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Full Stack Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) GCP Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Service Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) React
2 3 (10.00%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) Next.js
2 3 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) IoT
2 7 (23.33%) Robotics
3 5 (16.67%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (6.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (6.67%) Operational Technology
7 1 (3.33%) Digital Signage
7 1 (3.33%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
1 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (26.67%) Use Case
3 6 (20.00%) Business Case
3 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 5 (16.67%) Change Management
4 5 (16.67%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 5 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (13.33%) Agile
5 4 (13.33%) Data Integration
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Value Proposition
5 4 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Python
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 8 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) Bash
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.67%) Scala
5 1 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) MCP
2 2 (6.67%) MCSE
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.67%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
1 2 (6.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) SCCM
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Google
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Informatica
3 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.67%) Sophos
4 1 (3.33%) Remedy