Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Computing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 76 96
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 +30
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 3 4 13
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.28% 0.35% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 1.02% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £406 - £410
25th Percentile £415 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £363 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.62% -23.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £484 £369 £544
90th Percentile £516 - £555
North West median daily rate £480 £363 £538
% change year-on-year +32.41% -32.56% +7.50%

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 426 391 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 40.26% 33.88% 43.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 245 565
10th Percentile £319 £357 £279
25th Percentile £400 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £655
North West median daily rate £448 £485 £480
% change year-on-year -7.73% +1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £40.90 £15.72
25th Percentile £21.46 £58.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.50 £16.74
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +297.25% -76.09%
75th Percentile £66.88 £71.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.30 £77.88
North West median hourly rate £23.31 £36.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -35.26% +9.09% -50.00%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Data Vault
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Monorepo
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft