Cloud Computing Contracts in the North West

Cloud Computing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 145 159
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 -30
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 18 16 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.65% 0.50% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 1.30% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 14
10th Percentile £392 £400 £363
25th Percentile £416 £553 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £503 £584 £638
90th Percentile £564 £601 £726
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £16.40 - -
25th Percentile £16.63 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -
75th Percentile £19.13 £19.00 £19.00
90th Percentile £19.20 £19.15 £19.15
England median hourly rate £18.50 £18.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -1.33% -15.73% +18.67%

All Cloud Skills
North West

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 894 1,227 1,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.52% 38.06% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 916 1,047
10th Percentile £300 £305 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 34 44
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.20 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +101.62% +5.93%
75th Percentile £21.13 £65.00 £24.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.63
England median hourly rate £20.87 £28.33 £20.70
% change year-on-year -26.33% +36.86% -5.91%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the North West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in the North West

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in the North West

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in the North West

Cloud Computing
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 Computing within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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 +9 7 £450 -35.71% 20
Manchester +13 6 £475 -17.39% 26
Merseyside +14 5 £438 +157.35% 1
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
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 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) IaaS
2 4 (22.22%) PaaS
2 4 (22.22%) SaaS
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) MQTT
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) NaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (38.89%) Manufacturing
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Business Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
1 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
1 1 (5.56%) LangChain
1 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.56%) RESTful
1 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) IoT
2 7 (38.89%) Robotics
3 5 (27.78%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (11.11%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (11.11%) Operational Technology
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Signage
5 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (33.33%) Business Case
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 5 (27.78%) Business Analysis
3 5 (27.78%) Change Management
3 5 (27.78%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 5 (27.78%) Use Case
4 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (22.22%) Value Proposition
4 4 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
5 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.11%) Information Security
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Open Source
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) MCP
1 2 (11.11%) MCSE
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (11.11%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Sophos
3 1 (5.56%) Remedy