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 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 452 474
Rank change year-on-year -42 +22 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 91 33 73
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 17 39
10th Percentile £175 £438 £256
25th Percentile £413 £513 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.63% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £580
90th Percentile £671 £730 £698
UK median daily rate £516 £575 £531
% change year-on-year -10.22% +8.24% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 36,659 22,788 34,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.72% 92.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,966 15,194 23,034
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 881 2,397
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.79 £19.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.06% -8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £67.47 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -14.29% -22.22%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -18 50 £518 -13.75% 13
Midlands -49 14 £525 -4.55% 3
South East -45 9 £175 - 5
East Midlands - 8 £525 - 1
North of England -60 6 £600 +20.00%
East of England -24 5 £613 -12.50% 5
Yorkshire -49 4 £600 +50.00%
West Midlands -60 2 £750 +36.36% 2
North East -19 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 23 April 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 47 (51.65%) Oracle
2 27 (29.67%) OCI
3 23 (25.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 20 (21.98%) Azure
5 18 (19.78%) AWS
5 18 (19.78%) Migration
6 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
7 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
7 16 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (16.48%) Data Migration
9 14 (15.38%) GCP
9 14 (15.38%) SAP
10 13 (14.29%) Validation
11 11 (12.09%) Decision-Making
11 11 (12.09%) ERP
11 11 (12.09%) SQL
12 10 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (10.99%) SAP S/4HANA
12 10 (10.99%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (9.89%) Analytics
13 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
14 8 (8.79%) Cloud Security
14 8 (8.79%) Salesforce
14 8 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 7 (7.69%) Change Management
15 7 (7.69%) System Integration Testing
16 6 (6.59%) Agile
16 6 (6.59%) Google
16 6 (6.59%) 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 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle Smart View
1 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (10.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.10%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.10%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.67%) OCI
2 20 (21.98%) Azure
3 18 (19.78%) AWS
4 14 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (2.20%) GitHub
5 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.10%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) SaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) Network Security
2 1 (1.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) FTP
2 1 (1.10%) SNMP
2 1 (1.10%) VPN
2 1 (1.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.30%) SAP BW
3 2 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.20%) Power BI
3 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.20%) Tableau
4 1 (1.10%) Aerospike
4 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.10%) Git
1 1 (1.10%) GitLab
1 1 (1.10%) Hudson
1 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.10%) JUnit
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
General
1 23 (25.27%) Finance
2 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.49%) Billing
6 2 (2.20%) Front Office
6 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.20%) Local Government
6 2 (2.20%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.10%) Military
7 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.30%) REST
2 3 (3.30%) Web Services
3 2 (2.20%) CSS
3 2 (2.20%) HTML
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.10%) eBPF
4 1 (1.10%) Jest
4 1 (1.10%) Kafka
4 1 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.10%) Node.js
4 1 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.10%) pytest
4 1 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.10%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (19.78%) Migration
2 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (16.48%) Data Migration
4 13 (14.29%) Validation
5 11 (12.09%) Decision-Making
5 11 (12.09%) ERP
6 10 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (10.99%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (9.89%) Analytics
8 8 (8.79%) Cloud Security
8 8 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (7.69%) Change Management
9 7 (7.69%) System Integration Testing
10 6 (6.59%) Agile
10 6 (6.59%) ITSM
10 6 (6.59%) Performance Metrics
10 6 (6.59%) Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (6.59%) Service Management
11 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.09%) SQL
2 6 (6.59%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.10%) Bash
3 1 (1.10%) Bicep
3 1 (1.10%) Java
3 1 (1.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.20%) CCSK
3 2 (2.20%) CCSP
3 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
4 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.10%) CGEIT
4 1 (1.10%) CISM
4 1 (1.10%) CISSP
4 1 (1.10%) CRISC
4 1 (1.10%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.20%) NCSC
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Terraform
2 1 (1.10%) Ansible
2 1 (1.10%) Grafana
2 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (51.65%) Oracle
2 14 (15.38%) SAP
3 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.79%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.59%) Google
6 2 (2.20%) Ariba
6 2 (2.20%) Databricks
6 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco
7 1 (1.10%) Concur
7 1 (1.10%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.10%) IFS
7 1 (1.10%) Okta
7 1 (1.10%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) VMware