Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in the North West

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the North West is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 148 173
Rank change year-on-year +16 +25 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 4 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.23% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £569 -
25th Percentile - £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £559 £594 £700
90th Percentile £576 - -
England median daily rate £538 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -8.51% +2.17% +6.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,546 2,993 3,902
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 94.84% 96.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 2,145 2,849
10th Percentile £281 £300 £208
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £568
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 130 171
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.64 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +70.73% +14.53%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.04 £42.63
90th Percentile £67.63 £66.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North West

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North West

Cloud Platform Engineer
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 Platform Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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 +16 4 £550 -5.38% 5
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Cloud Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (75.00%) Go
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (75.00%) HP Fortify
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (75.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) HP Fortify
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk