Cloud Engineer Contracts in Derby

Cloud Engineer
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Derby is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 3.66% - 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.00% - 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £318
25th Percentile £463 - £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £390
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.43%
75th Percentile £594 - £435
90th Percentile £658 - £462
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 - £390
% change year-on-year - - -8.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derby. 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 Derby with a recognized job title 75 138 124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 93.88% 82.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 101 74
10th Percentile £200 £150 £118
25th Percentile £288 £188 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £269 £456
Median % change year-on-year +62.64% -41.04% +21.18%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £575
90th Percentile £625 £588 £650
Derbyshire median daily rate £425 £262 £450
% change year-on-year +62.02% -41.71% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 17
10th Percentile £21.65 - £11.80
25th Percentile £23.30 £16.25 £13.16
Median hourly rate £24.34 £17.86 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.28% -18.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £24.73 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £24.95 £21.88 -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £24.34 £17.72 £21.20
% change year-on-year +37.36% -16.42% +6.00%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Derby

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derby

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Derby.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Derby

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Derby over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Derby

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Derby region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Batch

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Batch
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
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