Cloud Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 81 124
Rank change year-on-year -13 +43 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 3 28 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.21% 1.57% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 1.64% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 22 19
10th Percentile £529 £418 £404
25th Percentile £534 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% -3.81% -1.18%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £663
90th Percentile £586 £649 £700
North West median daily rate £510 £505 £518
% change year-on-year +0.99% -2.42% +3.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,378 1,708 2,569
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 96.06% 97.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 1,271 1,999
10th Percentile £313 £313 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.56% +12.07%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £661
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 48 61
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.53 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +12.50% +23.23%
75th Percentile £63.13 £40.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year +9.65% +24.48% +33.89%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 Manchester region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
16 Cloud Engineer jobs in the North West