Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 65 64
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 9 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.14% 0.13% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 0.13% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £425 - £345
25th Percentile £434 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% -24.00%
75th Percentile £525 - £513
90th Percentile £619 - £535
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 721 747 809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 93.38% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 448 582
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £330 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £622 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 52 47
10th Percentile £15.54 £12.71 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.80 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.98% +13.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £25.96 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the East Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the East Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 3 £700 - 2
Leicestershire - 3 £450 - 1
Northamptonshire -10 2 £500 +25.00% 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 East Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
5 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
6 2 (22.22%) Azure App Service
6 2 (22.22%) Azure Storage
6 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) IaaS
6 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
6 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 2 (22.22%) RBAC

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure App Service
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Storage
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Batch
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Change Management
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
5 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 2 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) RBAC
5 2 (22.22%) Service Management
6 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
5 1 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (11.11%) Bicep
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Kibana
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk