Cloud Developer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cloud Developer
England > North West

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the North West is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% - 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £375 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £475
75th Percentile £410 - £488
90th Percentile £416 - -
England median daily rate £510 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.27% -8.33% -4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,027 2,259 2,624
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 93.81% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 1,205 1,815
10th Percentile £250 £267 £272
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £681 £650 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 158 178
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.58 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.77
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% +10.17% +37.50%
75th Percentile £47.12 £55.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.10 £73.80 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +67.93%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Cloud Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in the North West

Cloud Developer
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 Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 October 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 - 2 £410 - 2
Cheshire - 2 £350 -
Cloud Developer
England

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Cloud Developer 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 North West region featuring Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Personalization
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Personalization
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media