Cloud Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Cloud Engineer
England > East of England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £315, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 112 113
Rank change year-on-year +27 +1 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 4 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.36% 0.052% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.059% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - £376
25th Percentile - £463 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% +1.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile £400 £488 £593
90th Percentile £451 - £657
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 969 1,709 1,808
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.75% 88.96% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 735 1,114
10th Percentile £198 £206 £200
25th Percentile £347 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £442 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% -6.95% +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £654 £642 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 589 268
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.40 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.75 £43.00 £39.03
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +10.19% +101.26%
75th Percentile £66.38 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.55 £70.25 £76.30
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the East of England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer 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 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 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
Essex - 3 £315 - 10
Bedfordshire -1 1 - - 10
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 of England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) DataOps
2 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) Pandas
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Looker
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) NumPy

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Looker
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
1 2 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) DataOps
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft