Cloud Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Cloud Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £500, 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 89 121 96
Rank change year-on-year +32 -25 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 4 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 0.15% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.16% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 14
10th Percentile £480 - £386
25th Percentile £488 £756 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £763 £564
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% +35.25% +2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £769 £659
90th Percentile £545 - £714
South East median daily rate £563 £530 £564
% change year-on-year +6.13% -5.99% -9.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Berkshire

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Berkshire

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Berkshire

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +31 3 £525 -31.15% 5
Cloud Engineer
South East

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

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 Berkshire region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) SANS
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) SonarCloud
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (25.00%) IPv6
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (25.00%) TACACS
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless Framework
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) OSCP
1 1 (25.00%) SANS
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Dell
1 1 (25.00%) New Relic
1 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat