Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Cloud Engineer
Central London > City of Westminster

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the City of Westminster is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £593
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.27% +3.04%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of Westminster

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of Westminster. 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 Westminster with a recognized job title 58 37 49
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 82.22% 98.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 31 34
10th Percentile £350 £369 £412
25th Percentile £405 £409 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £644 £684
90th Percentile £750 £675 £795
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £52.93 - -
25th Percentile £55.06 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 8 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster - 3 £650 - 1
Cloud Engineer
Central London

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster

For the 6 months to 8 July 2026, 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 Westminster region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) Plotly
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 3 (100.00%) Plotly
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform