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 £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 50 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 7 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.80% 1.17% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.28% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £414 £356 £454
25th Percentile £421 £378 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -12.20% -14.58%
75th Percentile £613 £488 £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £516 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.14% - -

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 809 548 693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 91.95% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 333 491
10th Percentile £180 £228 £200
25th Percentile £352 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £568
90th Percentile £625 £635 £685
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 24 49
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £12.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +10.23% +16.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £25.18
90th Percentile £25.29 £33.15 £57.80
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend 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 December 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 December 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
Leicestershire - 4 £513 - 6
Derbyshire 0 2 - - 4
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 3
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Azure AKS
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
5 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (42.86%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
5 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 3 (42.86%) RBAC
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 3 (42.86%) VMS
6 2 (28.57%) API Management
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (28.57%) Change Management
6 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 2 (28.57%) Cost Management
6 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) Databricks
6 2 (28.57%) dbt
6 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
6 2 (28.57%) Grafana
6 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
6 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure AKS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (28.57%) dbt
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
5 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
5 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) SMTP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) VMS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (42.86%) RBAC
5 2 (28.57%) API Management
5 2 (28.57%) Change Management
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Cost Management
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Service Management
6 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow