Cloud Engineer Contracts in the North West

Cloud Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the North West is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 115 110
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 21 10 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.95% 0.42% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.44% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 33
10th Percentile £390 £386 £458
25th Percentile £400 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £494 £563 £538
90th Percentile £629 £581 £635
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

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 2,022 2,251 2,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 94.30% 93.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,366 1,951
10th Percentile £261 £265 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £563 £587 £588
90th Percentile £658 £675 £673
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 199 166
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +14.60% +32.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £71.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +8.43% +61.60%

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 11 August 2025.

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 11 August 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
Cheshire -18 6 £402 +0.50%
Merseyside - 6 £400 - 1
Lancashire 0 5 £450 - 9
Manchester 0 3 £688 +25.00% 13
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 2025, 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 15 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 14 (66.67%) Azure
3 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 10 (47.62%) DevOps
4 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 8 (38.10%) Finance
5 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (33.33%) High Availability
7 6 (28.57%) GitHub
7 6 (28.57%) Banking
7 6 (28.57%) SQL
7 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 6 (28.57%) Server Hardening
7 6 (28.57%) Zscaler
7 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (23.81%) Fintech
8 5 (23.81%) Terraform
8 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
8 5 (23.81%) Windows
8 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (23.81%) Firewall
8 5 (23.81%) Information Security
9 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
9 4 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
9 4 (19.05%) GitLab
9 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (19.05%) Process Improvement
9 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
9 4 (19.05%) Darktrace

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 4 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.52%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (28.57%) GitHub
5 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
5 4 (19.05%) Serverless
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) High Availability
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (28.57%) Server Hardening
5 5 (23.81%) Fintech
5 5 (23.81%) Information Security
6 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Acquisition
6 4 (19.05%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (19.05%) Process Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Resource Allocation
7 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (14.29%) ERP
7 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Bicep
2 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) Korn
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Zscaler
3 4 (19.05%) Darktrace
4 3 (14.29%) Axway
4 3 (14.29%) SAP
5 2 (9.52%) Varonis