Cloud Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £606, 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 106 115 147
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 13 12 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.74% 0.55% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.58% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 24
10th Percentile £425 £555 £416
25th Percentile £509 £561 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £675 £647 £638
90th Percentile £692 £788 £780
Central London median daily rate £600 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 City of London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Private Cloud
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (23.08%) OpenStack
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) Bash
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (15.38%) Ansible
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (15.38%) Degree
5 2 (15.38%) SCCM
5 2 (15.38%) Python
5 2 (15.38%) Windows
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (23.08%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (23.08%) Open Source
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) API Integration
4 1 (7.69%) Break/Fix
4 1 (7.69%) GitOps
4 1 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (7.69%) Observability
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Product Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Red Team
4 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
4 1 (7.69%) Secure Coding
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CCNP
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
1 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) SCCM
4 1 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Commvault
2 1 (7.69%) Confluent
2 1 (7.69%) Forcepoint
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) SAP