Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts 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 £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 162 186
Rank change year-on-year +43 +24 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 5 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.35% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 12
10th Percentile - £550 -
25th Percentile £763 £569 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £623 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.50% +13.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £788 £769 £647
90th Percentile - £825 £675
Central London median daily rate £775 £623 £550
% change year-on-year +24.50% +13.18% +29.41%

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 2,101 3,476 4,018
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.21% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,351 3,034
10th Percentile £350 £350 £367
25th Percentile £450 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £819 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the City of London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection

Senior 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform