Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% - 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £447 - £551
25th Percentile £448 - £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £555
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.91%
75th Percentile £449 - £561
90th Percentile £450 - £564
North West median daily rate £449 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -20.27% -2.17% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Cloud Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 622 445 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.73% 86.74% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 271 226
10th Percentile £268 £329 £301
25th Percentile £358 £388 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% -6.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £537 £568 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £612
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 22 27
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.03 £15.60
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.38
Median hourly rate £22.01 £31.19 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% +32.12% +46.92%
75th Percentile £40.00 £41.56 £35.39
90th Percentile £69.45 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.14 £40.33 £35.50
% change year-on-year -27.75% +13.59% +39.74%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
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 Operations within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 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 - 2 £449 -
Cloud Operations
North West

Cloud Operations
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform