Senior Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Central London > City of London

As of 6 May 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the City of London.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 122 119
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.043% 0.057% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.061% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.17%
75th Percentile - - £788
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £600 - £775
% change year-on-year - - +29.17%

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 2,179 1,635 2,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 93.06% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 1,029 1,469
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 15
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £31.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +34.78% -34.29%
75th Percentile £52.41 £48.75 £27.25
90th Percentile £62.36 £92.75 £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% +16.28% -28.57%

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source

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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft