Cloud Computing Contracts in the North West

Cloud Computing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing 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 104 119 141
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 +8
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 16 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.81% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.50% 2.04% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 10
10th Percentile £431 £392 £400
25th Percentile £448 £416 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -21.74% -
75th Percentile £579 £503 £584
90th Percentile £671 £564 £601
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £16.40 -
25th Percentile - £16.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% -
75th Percentile - £19.13 £19.00
90th Percentile - £19.20 £19.15
England median hourly rate £25.50 £18.75 £18.75
% change year-on-year +36.00% - -27.88%

All Cloud Skills
North West

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the North West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the North West

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the North West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the North West

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +19 8 £463 -2.63% 37
Cheshire -3 4 £671 +49.11% 6
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) NetWeaver
2 3 (18.75%) Confluence
3 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (6.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.25%) Maximo
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Slack
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (6.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
1 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
1 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) ERwin
3 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) Jasmine
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Integration Developer
3 4 (25.00%) SAP Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Data Modeller
4 3 (18.75%) Security Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Security Solutions Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Programme Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Head of Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Product Architect
6 1 (6.25%) SAS Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Middleware
2 4 (25.00%) EDI
2 4 (25.00%) IDoc
2 4 (25.00%) JDBC
2 4 (25.00%) JMS
2 4 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) SAP PI
2 4 (25.00%) SOAP
2 4 (25.00%) XML
2 4 (25.00%) XSLT
3 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Batch
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Security
3 2 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (25.00%) Scrum
2 4 (25.00%) SDLC
2 4 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
3 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
3 3 (18.75%) Inmon Methodology
3 3 (18.75%) Kimball Methodology
3 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
3 3 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) ABAP
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Databricks
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow