Public Cloud Contracts in the North West

Public Cloud
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 124 117
Rank change year-on-year +28 -7 -9
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 45 36 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.69% 1.17% 1.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.53% 3.55% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 43
10th Percentile £491 £456 £454
25th Percentile £750 £508 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £606 £575
Median % change year-on-year +40.21% +5.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile - £656 £675
90th Percentile - £675 £720
England median daily rate £610 £638 £605
% change year-on-year -4.31% +5.37% +15.24%

All Generic Skills
North West

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 689 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.83% 33.03% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 665 1,078
10th Percentile £286 £300 £226
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 40 64
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.48
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.25 £14.19
Median hourly rate £25.25 £31.49 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +57.45% +11.73%
75th Percentile £40.63 £66.00 £40.38
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £52.08
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the North West

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the North West

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the North West

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester +30 39 £850 +38.49% 15
Cheshire +1 5 £445 -13.59%
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (22.22%) AWS
2 8 (17.78%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (6.67%) SaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.44%) Serverless
5 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.22%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (66.67%) Firewall
1 30 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (4.44%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) DSL
3 1 (2.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) DB2
3 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.44%) Data Hub
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 9 (20.00%) Finance
2 7 (15.56%) Banking
2 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.33%) Legal
4 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Billing
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (77.78%) Architect
2 30 (66.67%) Technical Architect
3 27 (60.00%) Lead
3 27 (60.00%) Technical Leader
4 26 (57.78%) Lead Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Digital Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Digital Technical Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Automation Developer
8 1 (2.22%) Firewall Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Lead Security Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Mobility Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Security Technical Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (6.67%) .NET
2 3 (6.67%) React
3 2 (4.44%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.67%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.44%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (80.00%) Windows
2 34 (75.56%) Android
2 34 (75.56%) Apple iOS
3 31 (68.89%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.11%) Linux
5 3 (6.67%) zOS
6 2 (4.44%) Unix
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (80.00%) Agile
2 35 (77.78%) DevOps
3 31 (68.89%) Mobile Device Management
4 30 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 30 (66.67%) Risk Management
5 29 (64.44%) Design Patterns
5 29 (64.44%) Security Architecture
6 28 (62.22%) Zero Trust
7 27 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 27 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
8 18 (40.00%) Microservices
9 15 (33.33%) Roadmaps
10 12 (26.67%) Product Strategy
10 12 (26.67%) Strategic Roadmap
11 10 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (17.78%) Containerisation
12 8 (17.78%) Product Roadmap
13 7 (15.56%) User Experience
14 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 4 (8.89%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) C
1 3 (6.67%) Java
1 3 (6.67%) Python
2 2 (4.44%) SQL
3 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) MCSE
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (2.22%) NIST
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Ansible
1 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.22%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.22%) CFEngine
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) PowerBroker
2 1 (2.22%) Puppet
2 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Google
2 5 (11.11%) Apple
3 3 (6.67%) F5
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.44%) Databricks
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) Sage
4 2 (4.44%) VMware
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) CA
5 1 (2.22%) Citrix
5 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.22%) Dell
5 1 (2.22%) Qualys
5 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk