Enterprise Cloud Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Enterprise Cloud
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 67 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.64% 0.17% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 0.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £602 - -
25th Percentile £620 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £368 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.20% - -
75th Percentile £631 - -
90th Percentile £678 - -
North West median daily rate £519 £368 £500
% change year-on-year +41.05% -26.40% -12.28%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Enterprise Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 256 207 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.78% 34.85% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 159 108
10th Percentile £326 £268 £324
25th Percentile £413 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £447 £489
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -8.59% -2.20%
75th Percentile £580 £537 £565
90th Percentile £639 £638 £607
North West median daily rate £500 £460 £495
% change year-on-year +8.70% -7.07% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.30 -
25th Percentile £24.75 £21.38 -
Median hourly rate £35.82 £29.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.52% +163.64% -67.64%
75th Percentile £92.50 £50.75 £14.36
90th Percentile £111.15 £62.30 £16.38
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £35.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year +23.83% +59.55% -36.43%

Enterprise Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Enterprise Cloud job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Enterprise Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Enterprise Cloud
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 Enterprise Cloud within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 July 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 +8 4 £631 +71.33% 1
Enterprise Cloud
North West

Enterprise Cloud
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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
1 1 (20.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Change Management
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
5 1 (20.00%) LLM
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Bicep
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft