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 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 452 454
Rank change year-on-year -56 +2 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 85 37 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 19 45
10th Percentile £359 £450 £272
25th Percentile £431 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £664 £585
90th Percentile £674 £715 £645
UK median daily rate £460 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -17.67% +1.59% -8.33%
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 38,064 22,370 33,771
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.38% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,623 14,863 22,425
10th Percentile £320 £296 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,618 925 2,441
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.23 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +53.95% -21.38% -16.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.50% -23.32% -18.89%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -38 40 £483 -17.34% 39
Midlands -47 14 £525 -4.55% 2
South East -48 9 £175 - 7
North of England -63 9 £600 +20.00% 10
East Midlands -20 8 £525 - 1
Yorkshire -47 6 £600 +50.00% 3
East of England -21 5 £613 -12.50%
North West -37 2 - - 6
West Midlands -58 2 £750 +36.36% 1
North East -23 1 £725 +20.83% 1
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 41 (48.24%) Oracle
2 25 (29.41%) OCI
3 20 (23.53%) Azure
4 18 (21.18%) AWS
5 17 (20.00%) Migration
5 17 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 16 (18.82%) SAP
6 16 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (17.65%) GCP
7 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
8 14 (16.47%) Data Migration
8 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
9 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (14.12%) ERP
10 12 (14.12%) Validation
11 11 (12.94%) Analytics
11 11 (12.94%) Decision-Making
12 10 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
12 10 (11.76%) SQL
13 7 (8.24%) Cloud Security
13 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (8.24%) Microsoft
13 7 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (8.24%) User Acceptance Testing
14 6 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (7.06%) PL/SQL
14 6 (7.06%) Risk Management
15 5 (5.88%) Change Management
15 5 (5.88%) Data Quality
15 5 (5.88%) ETL

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 10 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.88%) 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 Payroll
3 1 (1.18%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.18%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.41%) OCI
2 20 (23.53%) Azure
3 18 (21.18%) AWS
4 15 (17.65%) GCP
5 2 (2.35%) GitHub
5 2 (2.35%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.18%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.18%) SaaS
6 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Network Security
1 1 (1.18%) SNMP
1 1 (1.18%) VPN
1 1 (1.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.71%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (3.53%) SAP BW
3 2 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.35%) Power BI
3 2 (2.35%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.35%) Tableau
4 1 (1.18%) Aerospike
4 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.18%) Git
1 1 (1.18%) GitLab
1 1 (1.18%) Hudson
1 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.18%) JUnit
General
1 25 (29.41%) Finance
2 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.53%) Billing
6 2 (2.35%) Front Office
6 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Local Government
7 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.18%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.18%) Marketing
7 1 (1.18%) Military
7 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.35%) REST
2 2 (2.35%) Web Services
3 1 (1.18%) CSS
3 1 (1.18%) eBPF
3 1 (1.18%) HTML
3 1 (1.18%) Jest
3 1 (1.18%) Kafka
3 1 (1.18%) Node.js
3 1 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.18%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.18%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.00%) Migration
2 16 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (16.47%) Data Migration
4 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.12%) ERP
5 12 (14.12%) Validation
6 11 (12.94%) Analytics
6 11 (12.94%) Decision-Making
7 7 (8.24%) Cloud Security
7 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (8.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (7.06%) Risk Management
9 5 (5.88%) Change Management
9 5 (5.88%) ETL
9 5 (5.88%) Integration Testing
9 5 (5.88%) ITIL
9 5 (5.88%) Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (5.88%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.76%) SQL
2 6 (7.06%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.18%) Bash
3 1 (1.18%) Java
3 1 (1.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.47%) 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%) Degree
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%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.35%) NCSC
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%) Ansible
2 1 (1.18%) Grafana
2 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (48.24%) Oracle
2 16 (18.82%) SAP
3 7 (8.24%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.71%) Google
6 2 (2.35%) Ariba
6 2 (2.35%) Databricks
6 2 (2.35%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.18%) Cisco
7 1 (1.18%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.18%) IFS
7 1 (1.18%) Okta
7 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Splunk
7 1 (1.18%) VMware