Cloud Developer Contracts

Cloud Developer
UK

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 649 677
Rank change year-on-year +121 +28 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 72 67 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.12% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 50 125
10th Percentile £359 £399 £435
25th Percentile £414 £518 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £581 £663 £675
90th Percentile £682 £863 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £528 £546
% change year-on-year -7.11% -3.43% +21.39%

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Developer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +136 63 £500 -12.28% 21
London +124 42 £503 -16.96% 7
Work from Home +123 27 £525 -12.50% 25
UK excluding London +61 15 £490 -7.11% 21
North of England +34 5 £300 -44.42% 5
South East +25 5 £490 -7.55% 5
East of England - 4 £488 - 1
Yorkshire +22 3 £300 -40.00% 1
North West +27 2 - - 3
Scotland - 2 - - 5
South West +18 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Cloud Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 22 (30.56%) Salesforce
2 21 (29.17%) Azure
2 21 (29.17%) AWS
3 20 (27.78%) Marketing
4 19 (26.39%) Agile
4 19 (26.39%) SQL
5 18 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 18 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 17 (23.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 15 (20.83%) DevOps
7 15 (20.83%) CI/CD
8 13 (18.06%) CSS
8 13 (18.06%) Finance
9 12 (16.67%) HTML
9 12 (16.67%) Python
9 12 (16.67%) Terraform
9 12 (16.67%) Serverless
10 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (13.89%) Node.js
10 10 (13.89%) Git
11 9 (12.50%) Scrum
11 9 (12.50%) REST
11 9 (12.50%) SaaS
11 9 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (12.50%) Kubernetes
12 8 (11.11%) Microservices
12 8 (11.11%) GCP
12 8 (11.11%) Cloud Native
12 8 (11.11%) Linux

Cloud Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.94%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (4.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.39%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) AWS
1 21 (29.17%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) Serverless
3 9 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.50%) SaaS
4 8 (11.11%) GCP
5 7 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (6.94%) IaaS
8 4 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 4 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) HTTP
2 2 (2.78%) FTP
2 2 (2.78%) SSL
3 1 (1.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.56%) Couchbase
3 3 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.17%) Redis
3 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.78%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.39%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Git
2 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.17%) GitLab
2 3 (4.17%) JIRA
2 3 (4.17%) Sourcetree
3 1 (1.39%) CocoaPods
3 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.39%) NUnit
3 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.39%) Xcode
3 1 (1.39%) XCTest
General
1 20 (27.78%) Marketing
2 18 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Finance
4 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.56%) Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Games
8 2 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.78%) Retail
8 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.39%) Electronics
9 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.06%) CSS
2 12 (16.67%) HTML
3 10 (13.89%) Node.js
4 9 (12.50%) REST
5 7 (9.72%) .NET
5 7 (9.72%) Kafka
6 6 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (6.94%) React
7 5 (6.94%) Visualforce
8 4 (5.56%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.56%) JSON
8 4 (5.56%) OAuth
8 4 (5.56%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.56%) OpenID
8 4 (5.56%) Spring
8 4 (5.56%) Vert.x
9 3 (4.17%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.17%) RESTful
9 3 (4.17%) XML
9 3 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.17%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.17%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.78%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) Agile
2 15 (20.83%) CI/CD
2 15 (20.83%) DevOps
3 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.50%) Scrum
5 8 (11.11%) Microservices
6 7 (9.72%) API Integration
6 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (9.72%) ITIL
7 6 (8.33%) Change Management
8 5 (6.94%) Data Integration
8 5 (6.94%) Design Patterns
8 5 (6.94%) Machine Learning
8 5 (6.94%) Service Delivery
8 5 (6.94%) Service Management
8 5 (6.94%) TDD
8 5 (6.94%) Time Management
8 5 (6.94%) Web Development
9 4 (5.56%) Product Backlog
9 4 (5.56%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.39%) SQL
2 18 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (16.67%) Python
4 8 (11.11%) C#
4 8 (11.11%) Java
5 7 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.33%) Apex Code
7 3 (4.17%) Bash
8 2 (2.78%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) Go
8 2 (2.78%) PHP
8 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.78%) Scala
9 1 (1.39%) ABAP
9 1 (1.39%) SOQL
9 1 (1.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (6.94%) Degree
1 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.17%) PMP
2 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) CAPM
3 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (16.67%) Terraform
2 9 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (30.56%) Salesforce
2 17 (23.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.11%) SAP
4 7 (9.72%) Informatica
5 5 (6.94%) Oracle
6 4 (5.56%) Google
7 3 (4.17%) Adobe
7 3 (4.17%) Sitecore
8 2 (2.78%) Avaya
8 2 (2.78%) Computacenter
8 2 (2.78%) Genesys
8 2 (2.78%) Sage
8 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.39%) Dell
9 1 (1.39%) Intel
9 1 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.39%) Okta
9 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.39%) Splunk