Cloud Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Consultant
UK > England

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in England is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 437 459
Rank change year-on-year -81 +22 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 84 39 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 21 46
10th Percentile £359 £400 £388
25th Percentile £425 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £588
90th Percentile £674 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £460 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -16.36% - -
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 38,786 22,186 34,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.34% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,000 14,689 22,539
10th Percentile £322 £293 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,713 917 2,538
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.95 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -49 39 £483 -17.34% 7
Midlands -50 14 £525 -4.55% 1
South East -57 9 £175 - 3
North of England -71 9 £600 +20.00% 3
East Midlands -16 8 £525 - 1
East of England -28 5 £613 -12.50%
Yorkshire -60 5 £600 +50.00%
North West -44 3 £415 - 2
West Midlands -69 2 £750 +36.36%
North East -24 1 £725 +20.83% 1
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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 40 (47.62%) Oracle
2 24 (28.57%) OCI
3 20 (23.81%) Azure
4 18 (21.43%) AWS
5 17 (20.24%) Migration
5 17 (20.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 16 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (17.86%) GCP
7 15 (17.86%) SAP
7 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
8 14 (16.67%) Data Migration
8 14 (16.67%) SC Cleared
9 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (14.29%) Validation
11 11 (13.10%) Analytics
11 11 (13.10%) ERP
12 10 (11.90%) Decision-Making
12 10 (11.90%) SQL
13 9 (10.71%) SAP S/4HANA
14 8 (9.52%) Cloud Security
15 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
15 7 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
16 6 (7.14%) Change Management
16 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
16 6 (7.14%) PL/SQL
16 6 (7.14%) Risk Management
16 6 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 5 (5.95%) Agile
17 5 (5.95%) CI/CD

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 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Smart View
1 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (10.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.19%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.19%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.57%) OCI
2 20 (23.81%) Azure
3 18 (21.43%) AWS
4 15 (17.86%) GCP
5 2 (2.38%) GitHub
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.19%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) Firewall
1 1 (1.19%) Network Security
1 1 (1.19%) SNMP
1 1 (1.19%) VPN
1 1 (1.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (3.57%) SAP BW
3 2 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.38%) Power BI
3 2 (2.38%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.38%) Tableau
4 1 (1.19%) Aerospike
4 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.19%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.19%) Git
1 1 (1.19%) GitLab
1 1 (1.19%) Hudson
1 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.19%) JUnit
General
1 26 (30.95%) Finance
2 14 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.57%) Billing
6 2 (2.38%) Front Office
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Local Government
7 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.19%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Military
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.38%) REST
2 2 (2.38%) Web Services
3 1 (1.19%) CSS
3 1 (1.19%) eBPF
3 1 (1.19%) HTML
3 1 (1.19%) Jest
3 1 (1.19%) Kafka
3 1 (1.19%) Node.js
3 1 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.19%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.24%) Migration
2 16 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.29%) Validation
6 11 (13.10%) Analytics
6 11 (13.10%) ERP
7 10 (11.90%) Decision-Making
8 8 (9.52%) Cloud Security
9 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (7.14%) Change Management
10 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (7.14%) Risk Management
10 6 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (5.95%) ETL
11 5 (5.95%) Integration Testing
11 5 (5.95%) ITIL
11 5 (5.95%) Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (5.95%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.90%) SQL
2 6 (7.14%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.38%) Bash
3 2 (2.38%) Java
3 2 (2.38%) Python
4 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (2.38%) CCSK
4 2 (2.38%) CCSP
4 2 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.38%) CISSP
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) CGEIT
5 1 (1.19%) CISM
5 1 (1.19%) CRISC
5 1 (1.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) NCSC
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
1 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.95%) Terraform
2 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (47.62%) Oracle
2 15 (17.86%) SAP
3 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.95%) Google
4 5 (5.95%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.38%) Ariba
5 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (2.38%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco
6 1 (1.19%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.19%) IFS
6 1 (1.19%) Okta
6 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Splunk
6 1 (1.19%) VMware