Cloud Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 142 127
Rank change year-on-year +27 -15 0
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 12 31 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.56% 0.87% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.91% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 45
10th Percentile £555 £416 £460
25th Percentile £561 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £650
90th Percentile £788 £780 £725
Central London median daily rate £570 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.64% - +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,055 3,394 4,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 95.04% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,453 2,305 3,050
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £677
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £595 £561
% change year-on-year -7.56% +6.01% +6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 54
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +102.96%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.31
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer 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 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Python
2 8 (66.67%) AWS
3 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (41.67%) Bash
5 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
5 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (33.33%) Docker
6 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
6 4 (33.33%) Azure
6 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (33.33%) Finance
6 4 (33.33%) Serverless
7 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (25.00%) GitLab
7 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (25.00%) GitHub
7 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
8 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) IPv4
1 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) OpenID
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (8.33%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
6 1 (8.33%) Microservices
6 1 (8.33%) Privileged Identity Management
6 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Bicep
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (8.33%) Consul
4 1 (8.33%) PingFederate
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google