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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 72 108
Rank change year-on-year -22 +36 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 14 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.70% 0.72% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.79% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 2
10th Percentile - £315 £470
25th Percentile £425 £358 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -6.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £581
90th Percentile £688 - £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

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.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,854 882 1,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 90.28% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 482 844
10th Percentile £191 £225 £209
25th Percentile £329 £363 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £551
90th Percentile £675 £686 £658
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 165 505
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.13 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.01 £21.46 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £55.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -56.68% +39.06% +19.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.26 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.58% +6.15% -23.53%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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
Cambridgeshire +2 6 £510 +2.00% 1
Bedfordshire - 4 £425 -
Suffolk - 3 £675 - 1
Essex -7 1 £500 +58.73%
Norfolk - 1 £450 -
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 March 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.

1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Azure
4 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
5 5 (35.71%) GCP
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
6 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 4 (28.57%) GitHub
6 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
6 4 (28.57%) Terraform
7 3 (21.43%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (21.43%) Cisco
7 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (21.43%) EMC
7 3 (21.43%) Firewall
7 3 (21.43%) Git
7 3 (21.43%) GitLab
7 3 (21.43%) Google
7 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
7 3 (21.43%) Migration
7 3 (21.43%) Network Design
7 3 (21.43%) Observability
7 3 (21.43%) OpenID
7 3 (21.43%) PaaS
7 3 (21.43%) SAML
7 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (21.43%) VPN
8 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2

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

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (21.43%) PaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (14.29%) Route 53
6 2 (14.29%) Serverless
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
7 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) BGP
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aviation
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) OpenID
1 3 (21.43%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Network Design
5 3 (21.43%) Observability
6 2 (14.29%) CRM
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) SIEM
7 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
7 1 (7.14%) Cloud Operations
7 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
7 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps
7 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bash
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) Groovy
2 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (14.29%) CCNP
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Squid
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) EMC
2 3 (21.43%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
3 1 (7.14%) PagerDuty
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) TOWER Software
3 1 (7.14%) Trend Micro
3 1 (7.14%) VMware