Cloud Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Consultant
UK > England

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 440 472
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 +119
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 77 38 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 49
10th Percentile £175 £450 £310
25th Percentile £402 £541 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +33.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £631 £750 £625
90th Percentile £679 £930 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £87.20
25th Percentile - - £87.88
Median hourly rate - - £90.50
75th Percentile - - £92.88
90th Percentile - - £93.40
UK median hourly rate - - £90.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.67%

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 30,295 24,258 35,635
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 93.06% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,300 14,922 23,999
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £642
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,894 726 2,114
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.92 £13.24
25th Percentile £18.73 £21.25 £16.86
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.44
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.04% +1.43%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +4 47 £600 -17.24% 10
North of England -48 13 £600 -8.57%
Yorkshire -43 9 £600 -8.57%
South East -24 8 £175 -71.43% 8
East of England -17 4 £488 -30.36%
North West - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 £447 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £393 -
North East - 1 £725 -
South West - 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 February 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 (57.14%) Oracle
2 30 (38.96%) OCI
3 26 (33.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
5 13 (16.88%) Azure
6 12 (15.58%) AWS
6 12 (15.58%) Decision-Making
6 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
7 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.99%) ERP
8 10 (12.99%) Migration
9 9 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.69%) Data Migration
9 9 (11.69%) GCP
9 9 (11.69%) SAP
9 9 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (10.39%) ITIL
10 8 (10.39%) Workshop Facilitation
11 7 (9.09%) Analytics
11 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (9.09%) Cloud Security
11 7 (9.09%) Google
11 7 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
11 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (9.09%) Web Services
12 6 (7.79%) Change Management
12 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Management
12 6 (7.79%) ITSM
12 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
12 6 (7.79%) Oracle Reports

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 2 (2.60%) Oracle Smart View
1 2 (2.60%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (2.60%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.60%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.60%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.30%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.96%) OCI
2 13 (16.88%) Azure
3 12 (15.58%) AWS
4 9 (11.69%) GCP
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.30%) GitHub
5 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.30%) IaaS
5 1 (1.30%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.30%) PaaS
5 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Network Security
2 3 (3.90%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) VPN
3 2 (2.60%) SSL
4 1 (1.30%) FTP
4 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (3.90%) SAP BW
3 3 (3.90%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.30%) Aerospike
4 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.30%) Metadata
4 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Redis
4 1 (1.30%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (2.60%) Postman
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
2 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) JMeter
2 1 (1.30%) JUnit
2 1 (1.30%) Locust
2 1 (1.30%) Selenium
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.78%) Finance
3 14 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.19%) Billing
6 3 (3.90%) Retail
7 2 (2.60%) Dutch Language
7 2 (2.60%) Front Office
7 2 (2.60%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Advertising
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Marketing
8 1 (1.30%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Police
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (9.09%) Web Services
3 5 (6.49%) REST
4 4 (5.19%) SOAP
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.30%) CSS
5 1 (1.30%) HTML
5 1 (1.30%) Jest
5 1 (1.30%) JSON
5 1 (1.30%) JWT
5 1 (1.30%) Kafka
5 1 (1.30%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.30%) Node.js
5 1 (1.30%) OAuth
5 1 (1.30%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.30%) pytest
5 1 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.30%) Swagger
5 1 (1.30%) XML
5 1 (1.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.30%) IoT
3 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.58%) Decision-Making
2 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (12.99%) ERP
3 10 (12.99%) Migration
4 9 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (11.69%) Data Migration
4 9 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (10.39%) ITIL
5 8 (10.39%) Workshop Facilitation
6 7 (9.09%) Analytics
6 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (7.79%) Change Management
7 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (7.79%) ITSM
7 6 (7.79%) Performance Metrics
7 6 (7.79%) Service Management
7 6 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (7.79%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.60%) SQL
2 1 (1.30%) Apex Code
2 1 (1.30%) Bicep
2 1 (1.30%) Java
2 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.60%) CCSK
3 2 (2.60%) CCSP
3 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.60%) CISSP
3 2 (2.60%) Degree
3 2 (2.60%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) CGEIT
4 1 (1.30%) CISM
4 1 (1.30%) CRISC
4 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.90%) NCSC
2 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) GRC
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) CASB
1 2 (2.60%) Terraform
2 1 (1.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (57.14%) Oracle
2 9 (11.69%) SAP
3 7 (9.09%) Google
4 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.60%) Databricks
6 2 (2.60%) VMware
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco
7 1 (1.30%) Concur
7 1 (1.30%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud