Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cloud Engineer
England > East of England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 88 87
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 13 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.55% 0.50% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.59% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 2
10th Percentile - - £315
25th Percentile £400 £406 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £317
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% +36.26% -44.96%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £317
90th Percentile £715 £590 £318
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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.

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 2,168 1,194 1,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 85.41% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 535 543
10th Percentile £190 £190 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £713 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 667 292 247
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.47 £16.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £48.84 £30.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -31.66% +28.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -6.89%

Cloud Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 of England.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cloud Engineer Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Cloud Engineer Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the East of England

Cloud Engineer Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 October 2026. 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
Norfolk - 6 £475 - 5
Cambridgeshire - 4 £725 - 53
Hertfordshire -17 3 £400 -38.46% 10
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, 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 of England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS61.5%8
2DevOps38.5%5
3Azure30.8%4
3PowerShell30.8%4
3Terraform30.8%4
6Active Directory23.1%3
6Entra ID23.1%3
6GCP23.1%3
6Infrastructure as Code23.1%3
6Infrastructure Engineering23.1%3
6Microsoft23.1%3
6Microsoft 36523.1%3
6Microsoft Exchange23.1%3
6Microsoft Intune23.1%3
6Migration23.1%3
6Python23.1%3
6SharePoint23.1%3
6Task Automation23.1%3
6Windows23.1%3
20Amazon EC215.4%2
20Ansible15.4%2
20ARM Templates15.4%2
20Bicep15.4%2
20DNS15.4%2
20Google15.4%2
20IaaS15.4%2
20Linux15.4%2
20PaaS15.4%2
20Platform Engineering15.4%2
20Salesforce15.4%2

Cloud Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1DevOps Engineer38.5%5
2Cloud Network Engineer23.1%3
2Senior Cloud Engineer23.1%3
4AWS Engineer15.4%2
4Senior Network Engineer15.4%2
6IT Support Engineer7.7%1
6Linux Engineer7.7%1
6Security Engineer7.7%1
6Senior IT Engineer7.7%1
6Senior IT Support7.7%1
6Senior Support Engineer7.7%1
6VMware Engineer7.7%1
77 Cloud Engineer jobs in the East of England