cloud-init Contracts in the North West

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England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 116 135 141
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing cloud-init 4 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 0.073% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% 0.40% 2.70%
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
England median daily rate £725 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +3.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for cloud-init in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing cloud-init in the North West.

Daily rate trend for cloud-init in the North West

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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-init 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 4 £750 -
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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:

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