cloud-init Contracts in Manchester

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North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring cloud-init skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited cloud-init over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 94 102
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing cloud-init 4 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 0.13% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 0.55% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £676
North West median daily rate £750 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

cloud-init falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing cloud-init as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for cloud-init in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing cloud-init in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for cloud-init in Manchester

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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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) CentOS
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Go
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Packer
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Consul
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
2 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) linkerd
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Rancher
2 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Okta
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk