Lead Cloud Engineer Contracts

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Lead Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 685 833
Rank change year-on-year +115 +148 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 3 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.026% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.028% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 17
10th Percentile £490 £450 £590
25th Percentile £513 £494 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £694 £675
90th Percentile £655 £740 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £625 £583
% change year-on-year -24.00% +7.30% -2.92%

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 39,476 54,050 83,442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,679 37,739 58,629
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
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 2,653 1,507 2,053
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.88
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £76.10 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +84 2 £475 -22.45% 9
UK excluding London +49 2 £475 -24.00% 6
North of England - 1 £475 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 3
South West - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Lead 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 featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) IPv4
3 1 (33.33%) Informatica
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Degree

Lead Cloud Engineer 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) IPv4
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica