Cloud Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Consultant
UK > England

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 452 432
Rank change year-on-year -108 -20 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 75 59 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 32 51
10th Percentile £413 £400 £463
25th Percentile £450 £489 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £571 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% -0.65% +6.48%
75th Percentile £620 £611 £628
90th Percentile £688 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £570
% change year-on-year - -7.89% +6.05%

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 42,592 25,553 30,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 91.09% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,048 16,438 18,399
10th Percentile £327 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,718 1,434 1,293
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -6.52%
75th Percentile £67.96 £51.55 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.16% -5.55%

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 6 months to 10 October 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 6 months to 10 October 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
London -91 27 £488 -18.75% 100
South East -61 11 £629 +38.95% 15
North of England -74 11 £485 -1.42% 17
Midlands -36 9 £625 - 7
North West -46 9 £475 -1.04% 6
West Midlands -41 6 £650 - 3
South West -26 5 £523 +16.11%
East of England -33 3 £519 +6.41% 10
Yorkshire -33 2 £485 -9.09% 4
East Midlands -13 1 £525 - 4
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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 36 (48.00%) Oracle
2 23 (30.67%) OCI
3 18 (24.00%) SAP
4 16 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (20.00%) Analytics
5 15 (20.00%) Migration
6 14 (18.67%) AWS
6 14 (18.67%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (17.33%) Azure
8 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
9 10 (13.33%) Data Migration
10 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (10.67%) ERP
11 8 (10.67%) Security Cleared
11 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (9.33%) Agile
12 7 (9.33%) Cloud Security
12 7 (9.33%) GCP
12 7 (9.33%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (9.33%) Validation
13 6 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (8.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
13 6 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
13 6 (8.00%) System Testing
14 5 (6.67%) AI
14 5 (6.67%) B2C
14 5 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
14 5 (6.67%) Genesys

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.33%) Confluence
1 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.33%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (1.33%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 23 (30.67%) OCI
2 14 (18.67%) AWS
3 13 (17.33%) Azure
4 7 (9.33%) GCP
5 6 (8.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.67%) SAP Fieldglass
7 2 (2.67%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (1.33%) BGP
2 1 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (1.33%) IPsec
2 1 (1.33%) Network Security
2 1 (1.33%) SNMP
2 1 (1.33%) Telnet
2 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) SAP BW
2 3 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (4.00%) Power BI
2 3 (4.00%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.67%) Tableau
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) Selenium
2 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (24.00%) Finance
2 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.67%) Billing
5 2 (2.67%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Local Government
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (5.33%) Terraform
3 3 (4.00%) Middleware
3 3 (4.00%) REST
4 2 (2.67%) SOAP
4 2 (2.67%) Web Services
5 1 (1.33%) eBPF
5 1 (1.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.33%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.67%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Linux
1 3 (4.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (20.00%) Analytics
2 15 (20.00%) Migration
3 10 (13.33%) Data Migration
4 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (10.67%) ERP
5 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (9.33%) Agile
6 7 (9.33%) Cloud Security
6 7 (9.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (9.33%) Validation
7 6 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (8.00%) System Testing
8 5 (6.67%) AI
8 5 (6.67%) B2C
8 5 (6.67%) Informatics
8 5 (6.67%) Risk Management
8 5 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.67%) SQL
2 3 (4.00%) Bash
2 3 (4.00%) Python
3 2 (2.67%) Java
3 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.67%) R
4 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.67%) CISSP
4 2 (2.67%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.67%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
1 2 (2.67%) IAG
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Ansible
1 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.33%) Grafana
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (48.00%) Oracle
2 18 (24.00%) SAP
3 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.67%) Genesys
5 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.67%) Ariba
6 2 (2.67%) Google
6 2 (2.67%) IBM
6 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco
7 1 (1.33%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.33%) Infor
7 1 (1.33%) MikroTik
7 1 (1.33%) Remedy
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Splunk