Cloud Engineer Contracts in Central London

Cloud Engineer
London > Central London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Central London is £600, 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 113 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 16 16 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 0.65% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.69% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 25
10th Percentile £425 £450 £418
25th Percentile £481 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £675 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £769 £765
London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Central London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Central London

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Central London

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +9 13 £606 +1.04% 8
West End of London - 2 £538 - 2
Cloud Engineer
London

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

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 Central London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) Terraform
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (25.00%) Private Cloud
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Linux
6 3 (18.75%) Python
6 3 (18.75%) Windows
6 3 (18.75%) VMware
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub
6 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (18.75%) OpenStack
6 3 (18.75%) Open Source
6 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
6 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
7 2 (12.50%) SCCM
7 2 (12.50%) Bash
7 2 (12.50%) Ansible
7 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (18.75%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Open Source
4 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Management
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.25%) Time Management
5 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (6.25%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
1 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) Argo
4 1 (6.25%) CASB
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Commvault
3 1 (6.25%) Confluent
3 1 (6.25%) Forcepoint
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) SAP