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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 441 475
Rank change year-on-year -60 +34 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 83 31 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 43
10th Percentile £175 £463 £259
25th Percentile £402 £563 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +20.93% -14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £606
90th Percentile £669 £780 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £603 £531
% change year-on-year -8.71% +13.41% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £87.20
25th Percentile - - £87.88
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £90.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.65% -
75th Percentile - - £92.88
90th Percentile - - £93.40
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £90.50
% change year-on-year - -22.65% -

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 34,544 22,585 34,987
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 93.03% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,800 15,092 23,382
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 803 2,291
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.51 £21.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.71 £77.00 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -24.42%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -34 46 £513 -14.76% 15
Midlands - 12 £525 - 5
South East -41 10 £175 -71.43% 10
North of England -64 8 £600 -11.11% 1
East of England -31 6 £525 -25.00% 3
Yorkshire -55 6 £600 -20.00% 1
East Midlands - 6 £525 - 5
West Midlands - 2 £500 -
North East -11 1 £725 +20.83%
North West -36 1 - -
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 March 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 (50.60%) Oracle
2 26 (31.33%) OCI
3 24 (28.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (20.48%) Azure
4 17 (20.48%) Security Cleared
5 16 (19.28%) AWS
6 15 (18.07%) Migration
6 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
7 12 (14.46%) Data Migration
7 12 (14.46%) GCP
8 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (13.25%) SAP
8 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.05%) Decision-Making
9 10 (12.05%) ERP
9 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.05%) Validation
10 9 (10.84%) SAP S/4HANA
10 9 (10.84%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (9.64%) Cloud Security
11 8 (9.64%) Salesforce
11 8 (9.64%) SQL
11 8 (9.64%) System Integration Testing
12 7 (8.43%) Analytics
12 7 (8.43%) Change Management
12 7 (8.43%) Google
12 7 (8.43%) Performance Metrics
13 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Management
13 6 (7.23%) ITIL
13 6 (7.23%) ITSM

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 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle Smart View
1 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (10.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.61%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.20%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.20%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.20%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 26 (31.33%) OCI
2 17 (20.48%) Azure
3 16 (19.28%) AWS
4 12 (14.46%) GCP
5 2 (2.41%) GitHub
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.20%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) SaaS
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) FTP
2 1 (1.20%) VPN
2 1 (1.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 3 (3.61%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (2.41%) SAP BW
2 2 (2.41%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.20%) Aerospike
3 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.20%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Hudson
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.20%) JUnit
General
1 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Billing
6 3 (3.61%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Dutch Language
7 2 (2.41%) Front Office
7 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.41%) Marketing
8 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.20%) Local Government
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (1.20%) Police
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.82%) REST
2 4 (4.82%) Web Services
3 2 (2.41%) CSS
3 2 (2.41%) HTML
3 2 (2.41%) SOAP
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.20%) Jest
4 1 (1.20%) Kafka
4 1 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.20%) Node.js
4 1 (1.20%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.61%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.20%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.07%) Migration
2 12 (14.46%) Data Migration
3 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (12.05%) Decision-Making
4 10 (12.05%) ERP
4 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (12.05%) Validation
5 9 (10.84%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (9.64%) Cloud Security
6 8 (9.64%) System Integration Testing
7 7 (8.43%) Analytics
7 7 (8.43%) Change Management
7 7 (8.43%) Performance Metrics
8 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (7.23%) ITIL
8 6 (7.23%) ITSM
8 6 (7.23%) Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (7.23%) Service Management
8 6 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.64%) SQL
2 4 (4.82%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.20%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.20%) Bicep
3 1 (1.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.41%) CCSK
3 2 (2.41%) CCSP
3 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.41%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.20%) CGEIT
4 1 (1.20%) CISM
4 1 (1.20%) CISSP
4 1 (1.20%) CRISC
4 1 (1.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.61%) NCSC
2 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Terraform
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (50.60%) Oracle
2 11 (13.25%) SAP
3 8 (9.64%) Salesforce
4 7 (8.43%) Google
5 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.41%) Ariba
6 2 (2.41%) Databricks
6 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco
7 1 (1.20%) Concur
7 1 (1.20%) IFS
7 1 (1.20%) Okta
7 1 (1.20%) VMware