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 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 449 473
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 78 39 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 20 50
10th Percentile £175 £496 £308
25th Percentile £405 £531 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £619 £750 £625
90th Percentile £641 £903 £719
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% -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 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 29,794 24,851 34,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 92.97% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 15,358 23,541
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
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 1,844 750 1,852
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -8.98% +9.86%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £38.10
% change year-on-year -14.72% -14.69% +9.53%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +13 45 £613 -15.52% 6
North of England -49 16 £600 +6.67%
Yorkshire -53 9 £600 +6.67%
South East -21 8 £175 -71.43% 4
North West -25 6 £480 -
East of England -15 4 £488 -30.36%
Midlands - 3 £447 -
East Midlands - 2 £393 -
North East - 1 £725 -
South West - 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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 44 (56.41%) Oracle
2 30 (38.46%) OCI
3 26 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (21.79%) Security Cleared
5 14 (17.95%) AWS
5 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared
7 11 (14.10%) Azure
8 10 (12.82%) ERP
8 10 (12.82%) Migration
8 10 (12.82%) SAP
9 9 (11.54%) Cloud Security
9 9 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.54%) Data Migration
9 9 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (10.26%) Analytics
10 8 (10.26%) GCP
10 8 (10.26%) ITIL
10 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
10 8 (10.26%) SAP S/4HANA
10 8 (10.26%) Workshop Facilitation
11 7 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (8.97%) DevOps
11 7 (8.97%) Google
11 7 (8.97%) Risk Management
11 7 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (8.97%) Web Services

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 2 (2.56%) Oracle Smart View
1 2 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (10.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (2.56%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.56%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.56%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.28%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.28%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.46%) OCI
2 14 (17.95%) AWS
3 11 (14.10%) Azure
4 8 (10.26%) GCP
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.28%) GitHub
5 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.28%) IaaS
5 1 (1.28%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.28%) PaaS
5 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) Network Security
2 3 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (2.56%) SSL
3 2 (2.56%) VPN
4 1 (1.28%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (6.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (5.13%) SAP BW
3 4 (5.13%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.56%) Metadata
4 2 (2.56%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.28%) Aerospike
5 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.28%) Redis
5 1 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (2.56%) Postman
2 1 (1.28%) GitLab
2 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.28%) JMeter
2 1 (1.28%) JUnit
2 1 (1.28%) Locust
2 1 (1.28%) Selenium
General
1 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (20.51%) Finance
4 10 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.13%) Billing
6 3 (3.85%) Retail
7 2 (2.56%) Dutch Language
7 2 (2.56%) Front Office
7 2 (2.56%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.28%) Advertising
8 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.28%) Marketing
8 1 (1.28%) Military
8 1 (1.28%) Police
8 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (8.97%) Web Services
3 5 (6.41%) REST
4 4 (5.13%) SOAP
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.28%) CSS
5 1 (1.28%) HTML
5 1 (1.28%) Jest
5 1 (1.28%) JSON
5 1 (1.28%) JWT
5 1 (1.28%) Kafka
5 1 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.28%) Node.js
5 1 (1.28%) OAuth
5 1 (1.28%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.28%) pytest
5 1 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.28%) Swagger
5 1 (1.28%) XML
5 1 (1.28%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.28%) IoT
4 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 10 (12.82%) ERP
3 10 (12.82%) Migration
4 9 (11.54%) Cloud Security
4 9 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (11.54%) Data Migration
4 9 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (10.26%) Analytics
5 8 (10.26%) ITIL
5 8 (10.26%) Workshop Facilitation
6 7 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (8.97%) DevOps
6 7 (8.97%) Risk Management
6 7 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
7 6 (7.69%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.85%) SQL
2 2 (2.56%) Java
2 2 (2.56%) Python
3 1 (1.28%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.28%) Bicep
3 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) CISSP
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.56%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.28%) CCSK
5 1 (1.28%) CCSP
5 1 (1.28%) CGEIT
5 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.28%) CISM
5 1 (1.28%) CRISC
5 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.85%) NCSC
2 2 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) GRC
3 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) CASB
2 1 (1.28%) Terraform
2 1 (1.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (56.41%) Oracle
2 10 (12.82%) SAP
3 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.97%) Google
5 5 (6.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.56%) Databricks
7 1 (1.28%) Concur
7 1 (1.28%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) VMware