Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £407 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £429 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £438 -
% change year-on-year +2.86% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 724 600 486
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.50% 90.23% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 454 286
10th Percentile £280 £271 £310
25th Percentile £400 £358 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £446 £463
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -3.68% -6.00%
75th Percentile £563 £537 £575
90th Percentile £620 £688 £639
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 28 22
10th Percentile £15.93 £12.82 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £35.91 £29.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% -15.00% +6.06%
75th Percentile £85.00 £36.86 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.50 £67.25 £47.13
North West median hourly rate £45.56 £25.15 £37.00
% change year-on-year +81.13% -32.03% +5.71%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Cloud Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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 - 2 £415 - 2
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, Cloud Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DataOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL