Cloud Operations Contracts in the North West

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 152 171
Rank change year-on-year +27 +19 -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 9 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.19% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.21% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £513 £494 £506
25th Percentile £516 £525 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.11% -
75th Percentile - £600 £532
90th Percentile £563 - £535
England median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,396 2,893 3,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.60% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 2,057 2,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 144 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.30 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.22 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the North West

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the North West

Cloud Operations
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 Cloud Operations within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +20 6 £550 - 3
Cheshire +6 3 - -
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
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 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DMZ
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Agile
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
6 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (33.33%) Information Governance
6 3 (33.33%) Information Security
6 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
6 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (22.22%) High Availability
7 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
7 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) Go
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
4 1 (11.11%) C
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) HP Fortify
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft