Cloud Engineer Contracts in Central London

Cloud Engineer
London > Central London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Central London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 149 137
Rank change year-on-year +33 -12 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 16 34 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.65% 0.87% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.91% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 48
10th Percentile £371 £420 £467
25th Percentile £450 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% +0.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £646
90th Percentile £769 £780 £776
London median daily rate £573 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.43% -4.17% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,350 3,740 4,348
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 95.38% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,679 2,553 3,324
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £679 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 50
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.55 £13.74
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £48.95 £84.75 £62.83
London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 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
City of London +19 12 £570 +3.26% 7
Cloud Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, 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 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Python
3 8 (50.00%) Terraform
4 7 (43.75%) Azure
5 6 (37.50%) DevOps
6 5 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
6 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
6 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
6 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
7 4 (25.00%) DNS
7 4 (25.00%) Windows
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 4 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (25.00%) Bash
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (25.00%) Serverless
8 3 (18.75%) OneDrive
8 3 (18.75%) Anomaly Detection
8 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (18.75%) Docker
8 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
8 3 (18.75%) Azure Storage

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%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
3 5 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (25.00%) Serverless
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Storage
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (18.75%) OneDrive
5 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (6.25%) IPv4
3 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
1 2 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
1 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Anomaly Detection
4 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
4 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Change Data Capture
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (6.25%) Privileged Identity Management
6 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
2 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) Consul
3 1 (6.25%) PingFederate
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) Google