Enterprise Cloud Contract Job Trends in the North West

Enterprise Cloud
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 118 139
Rank change year-on-year -36 +21 +26
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.069% 0.099% 0.070%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.33% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £374 £506 -
25th Percentile £374 £515 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.25% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £375 £545 -
90th Percentile £376 £554 -
England median daily rate £475 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -10.64%

All Generic Skills
North West

Enterprise Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 942 604 769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.45% 29.98% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 378 525
10th Percentile £198 £202 £291
25th Percentile £358 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £580 £582
90th Percentile £625 £665 £650
England median daily rate £513 £548 £549
% change year-on-year -6.52% -0.14% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 46 79
10th Percentile £19.75 £20.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £36.32 £23.28 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.12% +10.58% -25.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £33.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £56.69 £57.50
England median hourly rate £36.16 £33.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.94% +11.67% +33.33%

Enterprise Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Enterprise Cloud job vacancy trend in the North West

Enterprise Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Enterprise Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Enterprise Cloud

Enterprise Cloud
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 Enterprise Cloud within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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 -14 2 £375 -29.25% 4
Enterprise Cloud
England

Enterprise Cloud
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox