Cloud Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Automation Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 509 562
Rank change year-on-year -32 +53 +164
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Automation Engineer 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.007% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.007% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £487
25th Percentile £350 - £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -24.14% +20.83%
75th Percentile £450 - £738
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £400 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -27.27% -15.38% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 28,372 27,015 35,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,130 16,817 24,123
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 878 1,358
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.70 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

Cloud Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Cloud Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Automation Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Automation Engineer job vacancies in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London -19 2 £400 -27.27%
North West -23 1 - - 2
North of England -42 1 - - 2
Cloud Automation Engineer
UK

Cloud Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Cloud Automation 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 England region featuring Cloud Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Degree

Cloud Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) KNIME
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Okta
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk