Cloud Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 262 248
Rank change year-on-year -48 -14 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 242 501 833
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.99% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.05% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 364 539
10th Percentile £400 £412 £400
25th Percentile £468 £469 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £617 £652 £675
90th Percentile £688 £714 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £45.50 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -68.42% +20.63% -
75th Percentile £32.50 £103.13 -
90th Percentile - £103.50 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £73.00 £45.14
% change year-on-year -58.90% +61.72% -16.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London -7 136 £573 -0.43% 60
North of England +5 26 £525 +5.00% 38
South West -5 25 £500 -16.67% 31
South East -17 20 £530 -5.99% 23
North West +1 17 £510 +4.62% 18
Midlands +9 15 £523 +3.47% 25
West Midlands +11 10 £650 +23.81% 11
Yorkshire +22 9 £600 +4.35% 16
East Midlands +21 5 £356 -17.93% 14
East of England -5 1 £475 - 13
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 142 (58.68%) Azure
2 123 (50.83%) AWS
3 103 (42.56%) Terraform
4 91 (37.60%) DevOps
5 84 (34.71%) Python
6 77 (31.82%) CI/CD
7 67 (27.69%) Kubernetes
8 63 (26.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 57 (23.55%) Social Skills
10 56 (23.14%) Microsoft
11 51 (21.07%) Windows
12 50 (20.66%) Docker
13 44 (18.18%) Agile
14 43 (17.77%) Security Cleared
15 41 (16.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 40 (16.53%) PowerShell
17 39 (16.12%) Finance
18 38 (15.70%) SC Cleared
19 37 (15.29%) Linux
20 36 (14.88%) GCP
20 36 (14.88%) Azure Certification
21 35 (14.46%) Active Directory
22 34 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
23 32 (13.22%) Serverless
24 31 (12.81%) SQL
24 31 (12.81%) Cloud Security
25 30 (12.40%) VMware
26 29 (11.98%) Migration
26 29 (11.98%) Containerisation
27 27 (11.16%) Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.89%) Apache
3 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.07%) JBoss
5 3 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.83%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) Confluence
7 1 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 142 (58.68%) Azure
2 123 (50.83%) AWS
3 36 (14.88%) GCP
4 34 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (13.22%) Serverless
6 27 (11.16%) GitHub
7 26 (10.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (8.26%) PaaS
10 18 (7.44%) Amazon S3
10 18 (7.44%) Entra ID
10 18 (7.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (6.61%) IaaS
12 15 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (4.55%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.13%) Azure AKS
15 10 (4.13%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.74%) DNS
2 23 (9.50%) Firewall
3 15 (6.20%) VPN
4 11 (4.55%) Network Security
5 9 (3.72%) DHCP
6 7 (2.89%) MPLS
6 7 (2.89%) WAN
7 6 (2.48%) BGP
7 6 (2.48%) HTTPS
7 6 (2.48%) IPv4
7 6 (2.48%) LAN
7 6 (2.48%) VLAN
8 5 (2.07%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.07%) FTP
8 5 (2.07%) OSPF
9 4 (1.65%) EIGRP
9 4 (1.65%) HSRP
9 4 (1.65%) IPv6
9 4 (1.65%) VXLAN
9 4 (1.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.13%) Big Data
2 9 (3.72%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.31%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.89%) Power BI
5 6 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.07%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.65%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.83%) Metadata
9 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.41%) Redis
10 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (10.33%) Git
2 21 (8.68%) GitLab
3 20 (8.26%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.44%) JIRA
5 8 (3.31%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.48%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (2.07%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.65%) Snyk
9 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.41%) Selenium
10 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.12%) Finance
3 20 (8.26%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.13%) Banking
5 10 (4.13%) Retail
6 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.07%) Legal
7 5 (2.07%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.24%) Law
9 2 (0.83%) Billing
9 2 (0.83%) Local Government
9 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.72%) Node.js
1 9 (3.72%) OAuth
2 8 (3.31%) OAuth2
3 7 (2.89%) JSON
4 6 (2.48%) SAML
5 5 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.07%) Kafka
5 5 (2.07%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.07%) XML
5 5 (2.07%) YAML
6 4 (1.65%) RESTful
7 3 (1.24%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.24%) ADO
7 3 (1.24%) JDBC
7 3 (1.24%) ODBC
8 2 (0.83%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.83%) Django
8 2 (0.83%) HornetQ
8 2 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.83%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.37%) Public Cloud
3 11 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.89%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.24%) PKI
8 3 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.83%) Clustering
9 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Tandem
10 1 (0.41%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.07%) Windows
2 37 (15.29%) Linux
3 17 (7.02%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.48%) Debian
6 5 (2.07%) VMS
7 3 (1.24%) Unix
8 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (37.60%) DevOps
2 77 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 63 (26.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (18.18%) Agile
5 41 (16.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 31 (12.81%) Cloud Security
7 29 (11.98%) Containerisation
7 29 (11.98%) Migration
8 27 (11.16%) DevSecOps
8 27 (11.16%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (7.85%) Analytics
11 18 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (7.44%) Identity Access Management
12 17 (7.02%) Deployment Automation
13 15 (6.20%) Information Security
14 14 (5.79%) Scrum
14 14 (5.79%) Task Automation
15 13 (5.37%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (5.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 84 (34.71%) Python
2 40 (16.53%) PowerShell
3 31 (12.81%) SQL
4 27 (11.16%) Bash
5 18 (7.44%) Java
6 13 (5.37%) C#
7 10 (4.13%) Bicep
7 10 (4.13%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.31%) Perl
9 6 (2.48%) Go
9 6 (2.48%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.24%) C
10 3 (1.24%) C++
10 3 (1.24%) Julia
11 2 (0.83%) Ruby
11 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 36 (14.88%) Azure Certification
4 21 (8.68%) AWS Certification
5 18 (7.44%) Degree
6 11 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.89%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.48%) CCIE
10 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.65%) CCNA
11 4 (1.65%) CCNP
12 2 (0.83%) CISSP
12 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.41%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.89%) NIST
3 5 (2.07%) NCSC
4 4 (1.65%) SLA
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 50 (20.66%) Docker
2 35 (14.46%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.61%) Hyper-V
3 16 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.89%) vSphere
6 5 (2.07%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.83%) Varnish
8 2 (0.83%) vCloud
9 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 103 (42.56%) Terraform
2 67 (27.69%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.92%) Ansible
4 7 (2.89%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.07%) Kibana
6 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.65%) Puppet
6 4 (1.65%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.24%) Argo
7 3 (1.24%) Grafana
7 3 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.24%) SCCM
7 3 (1.24%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.83%) Consul
8 2 (0.83%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.83%) Rancher
8 2 (0.83%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.41%) Packer
9 1 (0.41%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 56 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.40%) VMware
3 15 (6.20%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.79%) Google
5 13 (5.37%) Splunk
6 11 (4.55%) Cisco
7 10 (4.13%) F5
8 7 (2.89%) CA
8 7 (2.89%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.48%) AppDynamics
9 6 (2.48%) HP
9 6 (2.48%) Informatica
10 5 (2.07%) Citrix
10 5 (2.07%) Oracle
10 5 (2.07%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.07%) Talend
11 4 (1.65%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.24%) Databricks
12 3 (1.24%) Infoblox
12 3 (1.24%) Zscaler