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 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 450 468
Rank change year-on-year -22 +18 +158
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 70 54 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 57
10th Percentile £299 £474 £313
25th Percentile £473 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £619 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +15.12% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £613
90th Percentile £680 £796 £690
UK median daily rate £575 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -6.12% +16.67% -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 Vacancies
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 28,510 26,921 34,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.92% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,200 16,785 23,966
10th Percentile £291 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,749 853 1,358
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.73 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 +12 40 £600 -6.25% 18
North of England -42 16 £600 +6.67% 8
Yorkshire -35 9 £600 +6.67% 4
North West -16 6 £480 -20.00% 4
South East -20 6 £175 -71.43% 22
East of England -20 4 £488 -30.36% 9
South West -3 1 £450 -10.00% 3
West Midlands -32 1 £500 - 6
Midlands -39 1 £500 - 9
North East - 1 £725 -
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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 (57.14%) Oracle
2 32 (45.71%) OCI
3 18 (25.71%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.14%) AWS
6 12 (17.14%) Migration
7 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
8 10 (14.29%) Azure
8 10 (14.29%) Data Migration
8 10 (14.29%) SAP
9 9 (12.86%) Cloud Security
9 9 (12.86%) ERP
9 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
9 9 (12.86%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (11.43%) Analytics
10 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (11.43%) DevOps
10 8 (11.43%) SAP S/4HANA
10 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
11 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (8.57%) DevSecOps
12 6 (8.57%) GCP
12 6 (8.57%) ITIL
12 6 (8.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 6 (8.57%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (8.57%) Risk Management
12 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management

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 (1.43%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle Smart View
1 2 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (11.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (2.86%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.86%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.86%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.43%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.43%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.71%) OCI
2 12 (17.14%) AWS
3 10 (14.29%) Azure
4 6 (8.57%) GCP
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.43%) IaaS
5 1 (1.43%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) PaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Firewall
1 4 (5.71%) Network Security
2 2 (2.86%) SSL
2 2 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 6 (8.57%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (7.14%) SAP HANA
3 4 (5.71%) SAP BW
4 2 (2.86%) Metadata
4 2 (2.86%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (2.86%) Postman
2 1 (1.43%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) JMeter
2 1 (1.43%) Locust
2 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.43%) Finance
3 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.29%) Billing
5 3 (4.29%) Retail
6 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Dutch Language
6 2 (2.86%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
7 1 (1.43%) Military
7 1 (1.43%) Police
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (7.14%) REST
2 5 (7.14%) Web Services
3 4 (5.71%) SOAP
4 1 (1.43%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.43%) CSS
4 1 (1.43%) HTML
4 1 (1.43%) JSON
4 1 (1.43%) JWT
4 1 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.43%) Node.js
4 1 (1.43%) OAuth
4 1 (1.43%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.43%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.43%) Swagger
4 1 (1.43%) XML
4 1 (1.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.43%) IoT
4 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (17.14%) Migration
3 10 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 9 (12.86%) Cloud Security
4 9 (12.86%) ERP
4 9 (12.86%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (11.43%) Analytics
5 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (11.43%) DevOps
5 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
6 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (8.57%) DevSecOps
7 6 (8.57%) ITIL
7 6 (8.57%) Risk Management
7 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (8.57%) System Integration Testing
8 5 (7.14%) Validation
9 4 (5.71%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.29%) Python
1 3 (4.29%) SQL
2 2 (2.86%) Java
2 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.43%) Bicep
3 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) CISSP
3 3 (4.29%) Degree
4 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.86%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.43%) CCSK
5 1 (1.43%) CCSP
5 1 (1.43%) CGEIT
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.43%) CISM
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) CRISC
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) GRC
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.43%) NCSC
2 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
1 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) CASB
1 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.86%) Terraform
2 1 (1.43%) Argo
2 1 (1.43%) Grafana
2 1 (1.43%) Istio
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 40 (57.14%) Oracle
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.29%) SAP
4 5 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.71%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) Concur
6 1 (1.43%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) VMware