Cloud Engineer Contracts in Liverpool

Cloud Engineer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Liverpool is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 4.26% - 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.48% - 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £441
25th Percentile - - £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.12%
75th Percentile £438 - £561
90th Percentile - - £577
Merseyside median daily rate £400 - £520
% change year-on-year - - +6.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 134 146 214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 94.81% 97.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 74 139
10th Percentile £152 £153 £244
25th Percentile £300 £213 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -13.27% +11.36%
75th Percentile £575 £514 £538
90th Percentile £687 £600 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £428 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.88% -20.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 9
10th Percentile - £17.25 £16.05
25th Percentile £12.21 £18.03 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £21.80 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.62% +14.71% +8.57%
75th Percentile £17.44 £26.69 £27.30
90th Percentile - £36.13 £33.20
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £21.80 £19.50
% change year-on-year -19.98% +11.77% +11.05%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Liverpool

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Liverpool

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 6 August 2025, 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 Liverpool region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Server Hardening
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Certification
2 5 (83.33%) Fintech
2 5 (83.33%) Zscaler
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Information Security
3 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (66.67%) Darktrace
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (33.33%) Varonis
5 2 (33.33%) Data Management
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (16.67%) NIST
6 1 (16.67%) QRadar
6 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (16.67%) VPN

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (100.00%) Server Hardening
2 5 (83.33%) Fintech
2 5 (83.33%) Information Security
3 4 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (33.33%) Data Management
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Certification
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) Zscaler
2 4 (66.67%) Darktrace
3 2 (33.33%) Varonis
18 Cloud Engineer jobs in the North West