Cloud Computing Contracts in Manchester

Cloud Computing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 90 108
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 +16
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 8 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 0.40% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 1.08% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 8
10th Percentile £421 £320 £513
25th Percentile £431 £406 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -17.39% +6.98%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £578
90th Percentile £615 £633 £588
North West median daily rate £466 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +3.56% -21.74% -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in Manchester

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in Manchester

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in Manchester

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) SAS
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Maximo
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Slack
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (37.50%) RDBMS
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) ERwin
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jasmine
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modeller
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Product Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SAS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 3 (37.50%) Inmon Methodology
1 3 (37.50%) Kimball Methodology
1 3 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) API Design
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Kernel Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) OWASP
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow