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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 467 447
Rank change year-on-year -78 -20 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 81 46 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.18% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 51
10th Percentile £409 £389 £400
25th Percentile £450 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -4.02% +4.19%
75th Percentile £621 £619 £594
90th Percentile £688 £664 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £561
% change year-on-year -3.38% -7.80% +5.65%

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 42,287 25,412 30,763
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 91.57% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,391 16,412 19,714
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,267 1,364 1,626
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.71 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.96%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -63 32 £483 -19.58% 55
South East -61 11 £648 +43.09% 5
Midlands -43 10 £594 +7.95% 1
North of England -65 9 £480 - 3
North West -44 7 £445 -7.29% 3
East Midlands -8 6 £525 -
South West -39 4 £525 - 9
East of England -15 3 £613 -3.92% 1
West Midlands -44 3 £750 +36.36% 1
Yorkshire -44 2 £485 +8.74%
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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 42 (51.85%) Oracle
2 23 (28.40%) OCI
3 20 (24.69%) Migration
3 20 (24.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 18 (22.22%) SAP
5 15 (18.52%) Analytics
5 15 (18.52%) AWS
6 14 (17.28%) Validation
7 13 (16.05%) Azure
7 13 (16.05%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (16.05%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
8 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.35%) GCP
9 10 (12.35%) SQL
10 9 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 9 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (9.88%) Cloud Security
11 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
11 8 (9.88%) System Integration Testing
12 7 (8.64%) Agile
12 7 (8.64%) ERP
12 7 (8.64%) Oracle Service Cloud
12 7 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (8.64%) Salesforce
12 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
13 6 (7.41%) B2C
13 6 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (7.41%) Data Quality

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 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.41%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle Payroll
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.40%) OCI
2 15 (18.52%) AWS
3 13 (16.05%) Azure
4 10 (12.35%) GCP
5 7 (8.64%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.23%) SaaS
7 1 (1.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) BGP
2 1 (1.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) Oracle ODI
1 4 (4.94%) SAP BW
2 3 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (3.70%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.47%) Power BI
3 2 (2.47%) Tableau
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Git
1 1 (1.23%) Hudson
1 1 (1.23%) JIRA
1 1 (1.23%) Selenium
1 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (27.16%) Finance
2 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Billing
6 2 (2.47%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.47%) Local Government
6 2 (2.47%) Marketing
7 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.94%) REST
3 3 (3.70%) Terraform
4 2 (2.47%) Middleware
5 1 (1.23%) CSS
5 1 (1.23%) eBPF
5 1 (1.23%) HTML
5 1 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.23%) SOAP
5 1 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Linux
1 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.69%) Migration
1 20 (24.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 15 (18.52%) Analytics
4 14 (17.28%) Validation
5 13 (16.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (9.88%) Cloud Security
8 8 (9.88%) System Integration Testing
9 7 (8.64%) Agile
9 7 (8.64%) ERP
9 7 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (7.41%) B2C
10 6 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (7.41%) Integration Testing
11 5 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.17%) Planning and Forecasting
11 5 (6.17%) Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (6.17%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.35%) SQL
2 5 (6.17%) PL/SQL
3 3 (3.70%) Bash
3 3 (3.70%) Python
4 2 (2.47%) Java
4 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.47%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.70%) Degree
4 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) Grafana
2 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (51.85%) Oracle
2 18 (22.22%) SAP
3 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.64%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.70%) Ariba
6 2 (2.47%) Google
6 2 (2.47%) IBM
6 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.23%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.23%) IFS
7 1 (1.23%) MikroTik
7 1 (1.23%) Splunk