Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 109 116
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 13 10 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 0.49% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.52% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 17
10th Percentile £414 £516 £363
25th Percentile £511 £571 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £596 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +8.41% -
75th Percentile £574 £663 £675
90th Percentile £618 £675 £875
Central London median daily rate £525 £596 £550
% change year-on-year -11.95% +8.41% -

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 1,722 1,912 2,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 93.00% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,174 1,695
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £675 £683 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £566
% change year-on-year -5.65% +1.59% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +130.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -23.08%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies 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 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) GitHub
3 5 (38.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
4 4 (30.77%) Google
4 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Istio
5 3 (23.08%) Java
6 2 (15.38%) AI
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) Docker
6 2 (15.38%) Firewall
6 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (15.38%) GitLab
6 2 (15.38%) IaaS
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) IaaS
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (15.38%) PaaS
5 2 (15.38%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.69%) Apigee
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (7.69%) Junos
2 1 (7.69%) NX-OS
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) LangChain
2 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) AI
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
6 1 (7.69%) Cost Management
6 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (7.69%) FinOps
6 1 (7.69%) GitOps
6 1 (7.69%) Log Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) OSCP
2 1 (7.69%) SANS
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) NCSC
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) GRC
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Istio
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Broadcom
3 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Juniper
3 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds