Cloud Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 58 55
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 10 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.95% 0.92% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 1.04% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £401 £434 £319
25th Percentile £479 £456 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £463 £333
Median % change year-on-year +10.27% +39.10% -7.51%
75th Percentile £515 £469 £341
90th Percentile £516 £561 £347
North West median daily rate £510 £494 £475
% change year-on-year +3.29% +3.95% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 480 480 489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 88.72% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 330 275
10th Percentile £275 £262 £184
25th Percentile £390 £390 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +10.26% +0.34%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £538
90th Percentile £626 £658 £631
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.45 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.54 £16.79 £16.49
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.15 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -5.51% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £44.25 £45.15 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.64 £20.25
% change year-on-year -13.87% +51.35% +12.47%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Macclesfield - 5 £510 -
Warrington +5 3 £513 +10.81% 4
Knutsford +11 2 £401 -34.76%
Cloud Engineer
North West

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Cloud 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 Cheshire region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) JIRA
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) Python
3 6 (60.00%) Git
3 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) JSON
4 5 (50.00%) Big Data
4 5 (50.00%) Talend
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
4 5 (50.00%) ETL
4 5 (50.00%) OOP
4 5 (50.00%) OO
4 5 (50.00%) Apache
4 5 (50.00%) FTP
4 5 (50.00%) C#
4 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) XML
4 5 (50.00%) Data Management
4 5 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (50.00%) Informatica

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (50.00%) Apache
1 5 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
2 5 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) FTP
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DMZ
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) JIRA
2 6 (60.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) JSON
1 5 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Management
3 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) OO
3 5 (50.00%) OOP
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
5 2 (20.00%) Information Security
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Informatica
1 5 (50.00%) Talend
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft