Cloud Engineer Contracts in the South West

Cloud Engineer
England > South West

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the South West is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 127 141
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 26 36 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.80% 1.06% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.15% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 25
10th Percentile £400 £513 £363
25th Percentile £439 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +29.20%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £638 £692 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +11.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,005 3,130 3,489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 92.58% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,892 2,328 2,526
10th Percentile £213 £281 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £594
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 250 208
10th Percentile £13.93 £17.97 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £45.17
Median % change year-on-year -14.82% +42.95% +1.51%
75th Percentile £71.25 £74.69 £62.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.53
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Gloucestershire +12 12 £538 -17.31% 6
Wiltshire -8 9 £600 -4.95% 1
Bristol +4 5 £439 -23.28% 5
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 South West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (84.62%) Azure
2 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (34.62%) DV Cleared
4 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
4 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
5 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
5 8 (30.77%) Entra ID
6 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
6 7 (26.92%) AWS
6 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
7 6 (23.08%) Firewall
7 6 (23.08%) CA
7 6 (23.08%) Windows
7 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
7 6 (23.08%) PaaS
7 6 (23.08%) Power BI
7 6 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
7 6 (23.08%) Terraform
7 6 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (23.08%) Cloud Security
8 5 (19.23%) Digital Strategy
8 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
8 5 (19.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (19.23%) Docker

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 7 (26.92%) AWS
4 6 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (23.08%) PaaS
4 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
5 5 (19.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) GitHub
7 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (7.69%) IaaS
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) BGP
2 1 (3.85%) IPv4
2 1 (3.85%) LAN
2 1 (3.85%) OSPF
2 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.85%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.85%) VLAN
2 1 (3.85%) VoIP
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) WAN
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
2 1 (3.85%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) Snyk
2 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Local Government
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
1 4 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) VMS
3 3 (11.54%) Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
4 5 (19.23%) Digital Strategy
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (15.38%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
5 4 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (15.38%) Log Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Security Architecture
5 4 (15.38%) SIEM
5 4 (15.38%) SOAR
5 4 (15.38%) Threat Detection
5 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 5 (19.23%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) Julia
4 1 (3.85%) Perl
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) DV Cleared
3 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (15.38%) NCSC
1 4 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (23.08%) Terraform
3 4 (15.38%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (11.54%) Ansible
5 2 (7.69%) Argo
6 1 (3.85%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) Puppet
6 1 (3.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) CA
3 5 (19.23%) Splunk
3 5 (19.23%) VMware
4 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds