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 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 454 478
Rank change year-on-year -21 +24 +153
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 62 63 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.22% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 60
10th Percentile £328 £466 £313
25th Percentile £438 £506 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +8.37% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £608
90th Percentile £660 £750 £679
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -6.38% +11.90% -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 Vacancies
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 27,774 28,440 36,203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 92.96% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,810 17,495 24,926
10th Percentile £283 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
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 1,680 1,030 1,405
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +43.93%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +12 36 £613 +4.26% 11
North of England -38 11 £492 -12.53% 1
South East -6 7 £175 -71.43% 7
Yorkshire -36 6 £588 +4.44% 1
North West -18 5 £480 -20.00%
East of England -14 4 £488 -30.36% 1
South West +3 1 £450 -10.00%
West Midlands -26 1 £500 -
Midlands -36 1 £500 -
Cloud Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, 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 (59.68%) Oracle
2 30 (48.39%) OCI
3 16 (25.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 12 (19.35%) Migration
4 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
5 11 (17.74%) AWS
6 10 (16.13%) Cloud Security
6 10 (16.13%) Data Migration
6 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
7 9 (14.52%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (12.90%) Azure
8 8 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (12.90%) DevOps
8 8 (12.90%) SAP
8 8 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (11.29%) Analytics
9 7 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (11.29%) ERP
9 7 (11.29%) SAP S/4HANA
9 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
9 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (9.68%) DevSecOps
10 6 (9.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (9.68%) System Integration Testing
11 5 (8.06%) GCP
11 5 (8.06%) ITIL

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.61%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Smart View
1 2 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (1.61%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.61%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.61%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.61%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.61%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 30 (48.39%) OCI
2 11 (17.74%) AWS
3 8 (12.90%) Azure
4 5 (8.06%) GCP
5 3 (4.84%) IaaS
5 3 (4.84%) PaaS
6 2 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.61%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) Network Security
3 2 (3.23%) SSL
3 2 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) DNS
4 1 (1.61%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 6 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (8.06%) SAP HANA
3 4 (6.45%) SAP BW
4 2 (3.23%) Metadata
4 2 (3.23%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (3.23%) Postman
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) JMeter
2 1 (1.61%) Locust
2 1 (1.61%) Selenium
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.19%) Finance
3 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.84%) Billing
5 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Retail
6 2 (3.23%) Dutch Language
6 2 (3.23%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.61%) Advertising
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
7 1 (1.61%) Police
7 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (8.06%) REST
2 5 (8.06%) Web Services
3 4 (6.45%) SOAP
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.61%) CSS
4 1 (1.61%) HTML
4 1 (1.61%) JSON
4 1 (1.61%) JWT
4 1 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.61%) Node.js
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth
4 1 (1.61%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.61%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.61%) Swagger
4 1 (1.61%) XML
4 1 (1.61%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.35%) Migration
1 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.13%) Cloud Security
2 10 (16.13%) Data Migration
3 9 (14.52%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (12.90%) DevOps
4 8 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
5 7 (11.29%) Analytics
5 7 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (11.29%) ERP
5 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (9.68%) DevSecOps
6 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (9.68%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (8.06%) ITIL
7 5 (8.06%) Validation
8 4 (6.45%) Agile
8 4 (6.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.84%) Python
1 3 (4.84%) SQL
2 2 (3.23%) Java
2 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.61%) Bicep
3 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.23%) CISSP
3 2 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.61%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.61%) GDPR
2 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) NCSC
2 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
1 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) CASB
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Argo
2 1 (1.61%) Grafana
2 1 (1.61%) Istio
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 37 (59.68%) Oracle
2 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.90%) SAP
4 5 (8.06%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.84%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) Concur
6 1 (1.61%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) VMware