Cloud Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 86 120
Rank change year-on-year -7 +34 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 4 31 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.28% 1.69% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 1.75% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 26 21
10th Percentile £515 £369 £400
25th Percentile £519 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -1.18%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £625
90th Percentile £585 £663 £700
North West median daily rate £510 £494 £510
% change year-on-year +3.29% -3.19% +2.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,390 1,768 2,524
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.40% 97.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 1,317 1,980
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +12.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 46 59
10th Percentile £12.02 £15.64 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.88 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.76 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.54% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.94 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £20.32
% change year-on-year -17.88% +61.84% +13.49%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform