Cloud Consultant Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Consultant
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in Manchester is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	132	90	81
Rank change year-on-year	-42	-9	0
Contract Cloud Consultant jobs	4	1	4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester	0.19%	0.092%	0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.20%	0.10%	0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted	3	0	2
10^th Percentile	£416	-	£488
25^th Percentile	£429	-	£506
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	-	£600
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	+14.29%
75^th Percentile	£519	-	£681
90^th Percentile	£538	-	£693
North West median daily rate	£445	£480	£600
% change year-on-year	-7.29%	-20.00%	+14.29%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in Manchester matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract job adverts in Manchester matching a recognised job title	1,971	995	1,115
% of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title	91.72%	91.37%	94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,177	645	643
10^th Percentile	£354	£301	£313
25^th Percentile	£418	£393	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£513	£450	£475
Median % change year-on-year	+13.89%	-5.26%	-5.00%
75^th Percentile	£618	£580	£575
90^th Percentile	£701	£675	£675
North West median daily rate	£500	£450	£475
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-5.26%	-5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	221	79	40
10^th Percentile	£19.00	£15.92	£15.87
25^th Percentile	£32.50	£18.97	£21.81
Median hourly rate	£60.00	£22.32	£32.50
Median % change year-on-year	+168.88%	-31.34%	+66.67%
75^th Percentile	£71.50	£31.40	£51.06
90^th Percentile	£77.50	£56.39	£65.48
North West median hourly rate	£45.25	£29.60	£31.50
% change year-on-year	+52.87%	-6.03%	-

Cloud Consultant Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cloud Consultant Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Consultant job vacancies in Manchester.

Cloud Consultant Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 12 November 2026, Cloud Consultant contract job ads cited the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract Cloud Consultant job ads across the Manchester region.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	75.0%	3
2	Agile	50.0%	2
2	AWS	50.0%	2
2	AWS Certification	50.0%	2
2	Azure Certification	50.0%	2
2	Bash	50.0%	2
2	Change Management	50.0%	2
2	CI/CD	50.0%	2
2	CISSP	50.0%	2
2	Cloud Security	50.0%	2
2	Degree	50.0%	2
2	DevOps	50.0%	2
2	Docker	50.0%	2
2	Firewall	50.0%	2
2	GCP	50.0%	2
2	Google	50.0%	2
2	Google Kubernetes Engine	50.0%	2
2	Infrastructure Automation	50.0%	2
2	Java	50.0%	2
2	Kubernetes	50.0%	2
2	Linux	50.0%	2
2	Load Balancing	50.0%	2
2	PowerShell	50.0%	2
2	Progress Chef	50.0%	2
2	Python	50.0%	2
2	Red Hat	50.0%	2
2	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	50.0%	2
2	Scrum	50.0%	2
2	SIEM	50.0%	2
2	Terraform	50.0%	2

Cloud Consultant Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

Rank	Job Title	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Consultant	50.0%	2
2	Analytics Consultant	25.0%	1
2	Associate Consultant	25.0%	1
2	SAP Consultant	25.0%	1