Cloud Engineer Contracts in Basildon

Cloud Engineer
Essex > Basildon

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Basildon is £315, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 15.79% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 15.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 - -
75th Percentile £400 - -
90th Percentile £451 - -
Essex median daily rate £315 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basildon. 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 Basildon with a recognized job title 19 47 24
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 95.92% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 15
10th Percentile £315 £440 £429
25th Percentile £320 £525 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £505
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +13.86% +1.00%
75th Percentile £487 £600 £533
90th Percentile £488 £660 £565
Essex median daily rate £400 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -12.57% +1.67% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 29 4
10th Percentile £32.00 £35.65 £56.63
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £57.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +11.55% +56.88%
75th Percentile £45.00 £80.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £48.00 - £67.85
Essex median hourly rate £26.25 £40.31 £43.32
% change year-on-year -34.88% -6.94% +80.48%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Basildon

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Basildon

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Basildon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Basildon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Basildon

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Basildon region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Vertex AI
2 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) NumPy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) DataOps
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Looker

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Looker
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
1 2 (66.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Data Security
1 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) DataOps
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google