Cloud Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Consultant
UK > England

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in England is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 3 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

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

3 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 312 378
Rank change year-on-year -81 +66 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 36 15 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 22
10th Percentile £413 £450 £266
25th Percentile £450 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £655 £625 £585
90th Percentile £675 £715 £776
UK median daily rate £460 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -23.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 19,318 11,373 19,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 92.67% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,150 7,589 12,861
10th Percentile £319 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £508 £520
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.40% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,305 440 1,648
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.27
25th Percentile £21.51 £18.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.91 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.95% +9.68% -38.08%
75th Percentile £68.00 £63.06 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.68 £77.22 £71.40
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £32.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +48.44% +6.67% -38.78%

Cloud Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cloud Consultant job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Consultant job vacancies in England

Cloud Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Consultant in England over the 3 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Consultant in England

Cloud Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Consultant job vacancies in England

Cloud Consultant
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 Consultant within the England region over the 3 months to 1 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -60 18 £450 -25.00% 14
Midlands - 10 £663 - 5
East Midlands - 5 £594 - 5
East of England -18 3 £650 -7.14% 3
South East -42 3 - - 10
West Midlands - 1 - -
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, Cloud Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 44 (51.76%) Oracle
2 28 (32.94%) OCI
3 23 (27.06%) Oracle Fusion
4 19 (22.35%) Security Cleared
5 17 (20.00%) Azure
5 17 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 16 (18.82%) AWS
7 14 (16.47%) Migration
8 12 (14.12%) GCP
9 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.94%) Data Migration
9 11 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (12.94%) SAP
9 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (11.76%) Decision-Making
10 10 (11.76%) ERP
10 10 (11.76%) Validation
11 9 (10.59%) SAP S/4HANA
12 8 (9.41%) Cloud Security
12 8 (9.41%) Salesforce
12 8 (9.41%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (8.24%) Change Management
13 7 (8.24%) Google
13 7 (8.24%) Performance Metrics
13 7 (8.24%) Service Management
13 7 (8.24%) SQL
13 7 (8.24%) System Integration Testing
14 6 (7.06%) Analytics
14 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Management
14 6 (7.06%) ITIL

Cloud Consultant 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Smart View
1 1 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (10.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.18%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.18%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.18%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.94%) OCI
2 17 (20.00%) Azure
3 16 (18.82%) AWS
4 12 (14.12%) GCP
5 2 (2.35%) GitHub
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.18%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) SaaS
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Network Security
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) FTP
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
2 1 (1.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle ODI
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (2.35%) SAP BW
1 2 (2.35%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.18%) Aerospike
2 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.18%) GitLab
1 1 (1.18%) Hudson
1 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.18%) JUnit
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.00%) Finance
3 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Billing
6 3 (3.53%) Retail
7 2 (2.35%) Front Office
7 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) Local Government
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.18%) Military
8 1 (1.18%) Police
8 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.53%) REST
2 3 (3.53%) Web Services
3 2 (2.35%) CSS
3 2 (2.35%) HTML
4 1 (1.18%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.18%) Jest
4 1 (1.18%) Kafka
4 1 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.18%) Node.js
4 1 (1.18%) pytest
4 1 (1.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.18%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.47%) Migration
2 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (12.94%) Data Migration
2 11 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (11.76%) Decision-Making
3 10 (11.76%) ERP
3 10 (11.76%) Validation
4 8 (9.41%) Cloud Security
4 8 (9.41%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (8.24%) Change Management
5 7 (8.24%) Performance Metrics
5 7 (8.24%) Service Management
5 7 (8.24%) System Integration Testing
6 6 (7.06%) Analytics
6 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (7.06%) ITIL
6 6 (7.06%) ITSM
6 6 (7.06%) Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.24%) SQL
2 4 (4.71%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.18%) Bicep
3 1 (1.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.35%) CCSK
3 2 (2.35%) CCSP
3 2 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.35%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) CGEIT
4 1 (1.18%) CISM
4 1 (1.18%) CISSP
4 1 (1.18%) CRISC
4 1 (1.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.53%) NCSC
2 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Terraform
2 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (51.76%) Oracle
2 11 (12.94%) SAP
3 8 (9.41%) Salesforce
4 7 (8.24%) Google
5 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.35%) Ariba
6 2 (2.35%) Databricks
6 2 (2.35%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Cisco
7 1 (1.18%) Concur
7 1 (1.18%) IFS
7 1 (1.18%) Okta
7 1 (1.18%) VMware