Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Platform Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.27% - 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.38%
75th Percentile £528 - £663
90th Percentile £534 - £670
North West median daily rate £513 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +28.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,340 928 1,483
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 93.83% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 633 1,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £390 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -3.16% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 37 89
10th Percentile £18.57 £13.00 £12.19
25th Percentile £22.68 £16.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £52.94 £32.50 £24.19
Median % change year-on-year +62.88% +34.35% -41.26%
75th Percentile £66.25 £37.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £62.00 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £31.64 £25.60
% change year-on-year +34.91% +23.59% -14.67%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 13 March 2026, Cloud Platform Engineer contract job roles required 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 job ads across the Manchester region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Node.js
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (25.00%) API Design
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Apigee
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Bicep
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) Apigee
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Spinnaker
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) API Design
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft