Cloud Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Consultant
UK > England

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 457 467
Rank change year-on-year -61 +10 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 80 40 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.17% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 22 52
10th Percentile £362 £400 £389
25th Percentile £422 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £559 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +1.59% -
75th Percentile £603 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £697 £668
UK median daily rate £460 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -12.38% -4.55% -
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 39,906 22,978 35,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.28% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,562 15,111 22,827
10th Percentile £325 £294 £290
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,811 1,028 2,703
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.09% -26.58% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £44.94 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.40% -26.67% -16.67%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 33 £450 -17.62% 15
Midlands -46 16 £525 -4.55%
South East -55 11 £313 -22.84% 7
East Midlands -10 8 £525 -
North of England -73 6 £480 -4.00% 2
East of England -30 5 £613 -12.50%
North West -41 4 £445 - 2
West Midlands -58 4 £750 +36.36%
Yorkshire -58 2 £485 +21.25%
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 37 (46.25%) Oracle
2 21 (26.25%) OCI
3 19 (23.75%) Azure
4 18 (22.50%) AWS
5 17 (21.25%) Migration
6 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 16 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (18.75%) GCP
7 15 (18.75%) Oracle Fusion
8 14 (17.50%) Data Migration
8 14 (17.50%) SAP
8 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
9 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (15.00%) Validation
11 11 (13.75%) Analytics
11 11 (13.75%) SQL
12 9 (11.25%) SAP S/4HANA
12 9 (11.25%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (10.00%) Cloud Security
13 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
13 8 (10.00%) ERP
14 7 (8.75%) Agile
14 7 (8.75%) Salesforce
15 6 (7.50%) Change Management
15 6 (7.50%) CI/CD
15 6 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
15 6 (7.50%) Integration Testing
15 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
15 6 (7.50%) PL/SQL

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 (1.25%) Oracle Smart View
1 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (11.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.25%) OCI
2 19 (23.75%) Azure
3 18 (22.50%) AWS
4 15 (18.75%) GCP
5 5 (6.25%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) GitHub
6 2 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.25%) SaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Serverless
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) SNMP
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
2 1 (1.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (3.75%) SAP BW
3 2 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 2 (2.50%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.50%) Tableau
4 1 (1.25%) Aerospike
4 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.25%) Git
1 1 (1.25%) GitLab
1 1 (1.25%) Hudson
1 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
1 1 (1.25%) JUnit
1 1 (1.25%) Selenium
1 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (33.75%) Finance
2 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.75%) Billing
6 2 (2.50%) Front Office
6 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Local Government
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing
7 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.50%) REST
2 2 (2.50%) Web Services
3 1 (1.25%) CSS
3 1 (1.25%) eBPF
3 1 (1.25%) HTML
3 1 (1.25%) Jest
3 1 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) Middleware
3 1 (1.25%) Node.js
3 1 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (21.25%) Migration
2 16 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (17.50%) Data Migration
4 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (15.00%) Validation
6 11 (13.75%) Analytics
7 9 (11.25%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (10.00%) Cloud Security
8 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 8 (10.00%) ERP
9 7 (8.75%) Agile
10 6 (7.50%) Change Management
10 6 (7.50%) CI/CD
10 6 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (7.50%) Integration Testing
11 5 (6.25%) DevOps
11 5 (6.25%) Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (6.25%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) SQL
2 6 (7.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (3.75%) Bash
3 3 (3.75%) Java
3 3 (3.75%) Python
4 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.50%) CISSP
5 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) CCSK
5 1 (1.25%) CCSP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) NCSC
2 1 (1.25%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Terraform
2 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.25%) Ansible
4 1 (1.25%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (46.25%) Oracle
2 14 (17.50%) SAP
3 7 (8.75%) Salesforce
4 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.25%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) Ariba
6 2 (2.50%) Databricks
6 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco
7 1 (1.25%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.25%) IFS
7 1 (1.25%) Okta
7 1 (1.25%) Splunk
7 1 (1.25%) VMware