Cloud Operations Contracts in Manchester

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Cloud Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 114 142
Rank change year-on-year +23 +28 -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 6 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.40% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £513 £475 £506
25th Percentile £516 £494 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year - +6.28% -
75th Percentile - £581 £532
90th Percentile £563 £585 £535
North West median daily rate £550 £575 £518
% change year-on-year -4.35% +11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Cloud Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,304 1,712 2,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.22% 91.75% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,258 1,814
10th Percentile £318 £318 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £496
Median % change year-on-year - +0.76% +10.28%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £580
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 57 49
10th Percentile £12.42 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £25.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £22.11 £36.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -38.58% +71.43% +15.93%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in Manchester

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in Manchester

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) GitOps
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Go
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) HP Fortify
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk