Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.099% - 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £366
25th Percentile £419 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £600
75th Percentile £456 - £738
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £438 - £475

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 940 1,120 1,557
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.28% 93.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 691 1,124
10th Percentile £303 £331 £285
25th Percentile £390 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £594
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 36 60
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.56 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.81 £19.19 £16.85
Median hourly rate £21.71 £33.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.22% +71.43% +10.00%
75th Percentile £33.00 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.38 £83.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.04% +5.71% +49.64%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Cloud Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy

Cloud Infrastructure 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware