Cloud Engineer Contracts in the North West

Cloud Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the North West is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 113 149
Rank change year-on-year -7 +36 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 17 40 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.62% 1.24% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.31% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 23
10th Percentile £422 £343 £363
25th Percentile £505 £456 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -4.41% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £625
90th Percentile £575 £645 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,607 3,043 3,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.71% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,182 2,880
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 135 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the North West

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the North West

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the North West

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Cheshire +10 10 £510 +10.27% 4
Manchester -12 4 £550 +10.00% 11
Lancashire +4 2 £525 - 3
Cumbria - 1 £550 -
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Cloud 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 North West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 7 (41.18%) JIRA
4 7 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (41.18%) Java
4 7 (41.18%) Serverless
4 7 (41.18%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (35.29%) Python
5 6 (35.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (35.29%) Amazon S3
5 6 (35.29%) Azure
5 6 (35.29%) Git
5 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Scrum
6 5 (29.41%) Data Management
6 5 (29.41%) JSON
6 5 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (29.41%) Big Data
6 5 (29.41%) Talend
6 5 (29.41%) Informatica
6 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
6 5 (29.41%) ETL
6 5 (29.41%) FTP
6 5 (29.41%) OOP
6 5 (29.41%) OO
6 5 (29.41%) Apache
6 5 (29.41%) C#
6 5 (29.41%) SQL

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (29.41%) Apache
1 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (29.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (41.18%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (41.18%) Serverless
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon S3
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (29.41%) Snowflake
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) FTP
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) DMZ
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 6 (35.29%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (35.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) JSON
1 5 (29.41%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Scrum
4 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Data Management
5 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (29.41%) ETL
5 5 (29.41%) OO
5 5 (29.41%) OOP
5 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (29.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (23.53%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 3 (17.65%) DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (11.76%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) C
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) MCSE
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Informatica
1 5 (29.41%) Talend
2 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft