Senior Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London
Senior Cloud Engineer
Central London > City of London
The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 2 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 141 | 119 | 120 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -22 | +1 | - |
| Contract Senior Cloud Engineer jobs | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the City of London | 0.15% | 0.059% | 0.19% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.16% | 0.063% | 0.20% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £525 | - | - |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £550 | £550 | - |
| 75th Percentile | £656 | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | £705 | - | - |
| Central London median daily rate | £550 | £550 | - |
All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in the City of London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 2 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in the City of London matching a recognised job title | 1,917 | 1,587 | 1,966 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 93.70% | 93.91% | 93.26% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1,329 | 1,104 | 1,206 |
| 10th Percentile | £367 | £325 | £363 |
| 25th Percentile | £455 | £413 | £463 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £550 | £550 | £575 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -4.35% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £675 | £675 | £688 |
| 90th Percentile | £775 | £772 | £778 |
| Central London median daily rate | £550 | £550 | £575 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -4.35% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 18 | 18 | 15 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £16.90 | £16.60 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.60 | £21.07 | £25.06 |
| Median hourly rate | £21.75 | £27.75 | £57.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -21.62% | -51.74% | +51.32% |
| 75th Percentile | £36.81 | £44.63 | £112.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £62.55 | £64.30 | £137.50 |
| Central London median hourly rate | £25.00 | £27.75 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | -9.91% | -20.71% | -7.89% |
Senior Cloud Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract Senior Cloud Engineer job postings relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.
Senior Cloud Engineer Daily Rate Trend in the City of London
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.
Senior Cloud Engineer Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London
Daily rate distribution for Senior Cloud Engineer jobs in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 November 2026.
Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London
For the 6 months to 2 November 2026, Senior Cloud Engineer contract job ads cited 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 Senior Cloud Engineer job ads across the City of London region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 3 |
| 1 | Terraform | 100.0% | 3 |
| 3 | Azure | 66.7% | 2 |
| 3 | Platform Engineering | 66.7% | 2 |
| 5 | ActiveMQ | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Amazon Athena | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Amazon CloudWatch | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Amazon EC2 | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Amazon EKS | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Amazon EventBridge | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Amazon Kinesis | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Amazon RDS | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Amazon S3 | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Analytics | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | AWS Lambda | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | AWS Step Functions | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Bitbucket | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | CI/CD | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Continuous Improvement | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Data Engineering | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Data Integration | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Data Modelling | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Data Pipeline | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Data Quality | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Enterprise Architecture | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | ETL | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Event-Driven | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Event-Driven Architecture | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | Fintech | 33.3% | 1 |
| 5 | GitHub | 33.3% | 1 |
Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure Platform Engineer | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Cloud Platform Engineer | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Senior Platform Engineer | 66.7% | 2 |
| 4 | Senior Data Engineer | 33.3% | 1 |