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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 78 108
Rank change year-on-year -19 +30 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 15 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.79% 0.79% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.86% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 2
10th Percentile £406 - £470
25th Percentile £425 £315 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £318 £525
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% -39.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £500 £581
90th Percentile £688 - £600
England median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.55% -

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 1,767 928 1,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 91.25% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 498 870
10th Percentile £191 £225 £202
25th Percentile £325 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +9.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 536 150 488
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.30 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.99 £21.46 £16.29
Median hourly rate £23.75 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.42% +50.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -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 15 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 15 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
Bedfordshire - 7 £425 -
Cambridgeshire -2 4 £513 +2.50% 1
Suffolk - 3 £675 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £650 - 3
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (46.67%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Migration
3 7 (46.67%) OpenID
3 7 (46.67%) PaaS
3 7 (46.67%) SAML
4 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (40.00%) Observability
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) CRM
6 4 (26.67%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (26.67%) Network Design
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Terraform
7 3 (20.00%) Cisco
7 3 (20.00%) EMC
7 3 (20.00%) GCP
7 3 (20.00%) GitHub
7 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
8 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
8 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (13.33%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
8 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps

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 4 (26.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (46.67%) PaaS
4 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Aviation
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) OpenID
1 7 (46.67%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (40.00%) Observability
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) CRM
5 4 (26.67%) Network Design
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
6 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
6 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
6 2 (13.33%) SIEM
6 2 (13.33%) SOAR
7 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) CCNP
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) EMC
3 2 (13.33%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Cribl.io
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk