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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 441 441
Rank change year-on-year -121 0 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 75 58 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 33 50
10th Percentile £412 £412 £457
25th Percentile £450 £492 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +2.45% +3.94%
75th Percentile £566 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +4.65%

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 42,705 25,037 30,206
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.31% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,379 16,124 18,786
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.98%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,515 1,363 1,435
10th Percentile £14.87 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.87 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -83 28 £518 -13.75% 64
South East -56 11 £629 +38.95% 15
North of England -68 10 £480 -1.23% 13
North West -48 8 £445 -7.29% 9
Midlands -47 7 £525 -4.55% 10
East Midlands -11 4 £525 - 3
South West -36 4 £525 +16.67%
East of England -31 3 £519 -18.63% 7
West Midlands -48 3 £750 +36.36% 7
Yorkshire -46 2 £485 -1.42% 3
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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 40 (53.33%) Oracle
2 23 (30.67%) OCI
3 16 (21.33%) Migration
3 16 (21.33%) SAP
3 16 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (20.00%) Analytics
4 15 (20.00%) AWS
5 14 (18.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (17.33%) Azure
6 13 (17.33%) Data Migration
6 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
6 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (12.00%) GCP
7 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (12.00%) Validation
8 8 (10.67%) Cloud Security
9 7 (9.33%) Agile
9 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
9 7 (9.33%) SQL
10 6 (8.00%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (8.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 6 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
11 5 (6.67%) B2C
11 5 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (6.67%) Data Quality
11 5 (6.67%) ERP
11 5 (6.67%) Planning and Forecasting

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:

Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.67%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (2.67%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.67%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.67%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 23 (30.67%) OCI
2 15 (20.00%) AWS
3 13 (17.33%) Azure
4 9 (12.00%) GCP
5 6 (8.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.67%) SAP Fieldglass
6 2 (2.67%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.33%) BGP
2 1 (1.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Oracle ODI
1 4 (5.33%) SAP BW
2 3 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
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%) Power BI
3 2 (2.67%) Tableau
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Git
1 1 (1.33%) JIRA
1 1 (1.33%) Selenium
1 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (25.33%) Finance
2 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Billing
6 2 (2.67%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.33%) Local Government
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.00%) Middleware
2 3 (4.00%) REST
2 3 (4.00%) Terraform
3 2 (2.67%) SOAP
3 2 (2.67%) Web Services
4 1 (1.33%) eBPF
4 1 (1.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.67%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
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 2 (2.67%) Linux
1 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.33%) Migration
1 16 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (20.00%) Analytics
3 13 (17.33%) Data Migration
3 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 9 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (12.00%) Validation
5 8 (10.67%) Cloud Security
6 7 (9.33%) Agile
7 6 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (6.67%) B2C
8 5 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (6.67%) ERP
8 5 (6.67%) Planning and Forecasting
8 5 (6.67%) Risk Management
8 5 (6.67%) Roadmaps
8 5 (6.67%) System Testing
9 4 (5.33%) Budgeting
9 4 (5.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.33%) SQL
2 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.00%) Bash
3 3 (4.00%) Python
4 2 (2.67%) Java
4 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.67%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) 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 5 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.67%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
1 2 (2.67%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.33%) Ansible
2 1 (1.33%) Grafana
2 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (53.33%) Oracle
2 16 (21.33%) SAP
3 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.00%) Genesys
4 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.67%) Ariba
5 2 (2.67%) Google
5 2 (2.67%) IBM
5 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco
6 1 (1.33%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.33%) MikroTik
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Splunk