Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £385, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 46 47
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 7 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.09% 1.97% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 2.22% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £361 £381 £515
25th Percentile £366 £393 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £427 £460 £558
90th Percentile £471 £568 £562
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +22.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 569 406 350
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.91% 88.84% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 236 235
10th Percentile £268 £303 £265
25th Percentile £358 £359 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £548
90th Percentile £694 £648 £587
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 20 28
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £16.18
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.00 £17.58
Median hourly rate £23.50 £22.09 £25.14
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -12.11% +42.33%
75th Percentile £36.75 £25.45 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £86.00 £41.13
North West median hourly rate £30.99 £25.94 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.46% -25.88% +62.79%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 24 December 2025. 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
Knutsford -26 6 £368 -8.00%
Cloud Engineer
North West

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) GitLab
3 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Docker
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Git
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Node.js
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) Perl

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Acquisition
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Korn
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow