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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 119 123
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.057% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.061% 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 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 2,075 1,640 1,984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 94.25% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,108 1,231
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.95%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 16
10th Percentile £17.06 £17.02 £17.25
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £22.84
Median hourly rate £21.75 £27.83 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% -42.03% +33.33%
75th Percentile £39.81 £47.00 £112.00
90th Percentile £63.95 £67.89 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.07 £27.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.86% -20.50% -1.41%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend 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.

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 jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 2026, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Police
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft