Public Cloud Contracts in the South West

Public Cloud
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 123 142
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 30 38 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.92% 1.12% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.87% 4.05% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 17
10th Percentile £560 £513 £433
25th Percentile £563 £606 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -14.69%
75th Percentile £759 £744 £675
90th Percentile £769 £800 £793
England median daily rate £610 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -4.69% +6.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.25 £78.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -40.71% -2.50% +33.33%

All Generic Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,044 938 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.08% 27.57% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 662 692
10th Percentile £300 £275 £205
25th Percentile £463 £425 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £600
90th Percentile £695 £738 £675
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 125 45
10th Percentile £13.69 - £14.50
25th Percentile £19.25 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £9.80 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +410.20% -77.70% -9.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
% change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the South West

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Public Cloud in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Wiltshire +4 13 £600 -7.69%
Bristol +20 12 £575 - 4
Dorset +6 5 £763 +8.93%
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (76.67%) Azure
2 17 (56.67%) GCP
3 16 (53.33%) AWS
4 6 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (20.00%) PaaS
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) OCI
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Google Container Engine
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) VPN
2 6 (20.00%) WAN
3 5 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) DNS
4 1 (3.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) JIRA
2 6 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (16.67%) Spinnaker
4 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Electronics
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) Technical Architect
3 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Automation Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) IT Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Office Automation Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) .NET Team Leader
7 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (3.33%) Developer
7 1 (3.33%) GCP DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Lead C# Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) ModSecurity
2 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 5 (16.67%) Middleware
3 4 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 9 (30.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (16.67%) PKI
4 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) ArchiMate
2 11 (36.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 11 (36.67%) Business Strategy
2 11 (36.67%) DevOps
2 11 (36.67%) IT Strategy
2 11 (36.67%) Technology Strategy
2 11 (36.67%) TOGAF
3 9 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.00%) Analytics
5 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (20.00%) NsoIT
5 6 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (16.67%) ITIL
6 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 5 (16.67%) Migration
6 5 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) Degree
3 4 (13.33%) HND
3 4 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) NCSC
2 7 (23.33%) QA
3 4 (13.33%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (13.33%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (23.33%) Ansible
3 6 (20.00%) OPNET
3 6 (20.00%) Terraform
4 5 (16.67%) Istio
5 4 (13.33%) PowerCLI
5 4 (13.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Google
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 6 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (13.33%) Cisco
4 4 (13.33%) Splunk
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (6.67%) SAP
6 1 (3.33%) Databricks