Cloud Administrator Contracts

Cloud Administrator
UK

The median Cloud Administrator daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 702 846
Rank change year-on-year +126 +144 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Administrator 11 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.021% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.023% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 8
10th Percentile £326 £383 £383
25th Percentile £431 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £625
90th Percentile - £768 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -17.50% +17.65% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,554 57,501 85,863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.56% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,500 40,089 60,302
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,611 1,615 2,125
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.65 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%

Cloud Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Administrator in the UK

Cloud Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Administrator in the UK

Cloud Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Administrator over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Administrator in the UK

Cloud Administrator
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +124 6 £700 +40.00% 1
Work from Home +131 5 £350 -30.00% 2
London +113 5 £700 +21.74% 1
UK excluding London +47 4 £413 -17.50%
Scotland - 3 £525 -
East of England - 1 £300 -

Cloud Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Cloud Administrator 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 featuring Cloud Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) IPsec
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (27.27%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) MySQL
3 3 (27.27%) ERP
3 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (27.27%) Database Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
3 3 (27.27%) PaaS
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (27.27%) Okta
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Database Security
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora

Cloud Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) OCI
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) IPsec
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Change Advisory Board
2 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Database Security
2 3 (27.27%) Database Tuning
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) ERP
2 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) CRM
4 1 (9.09%) Data Management
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Okta
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow