Cloud Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Consultant
UK > England

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in England is £568, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 435 490
Rank change year-on-year -24 +55 +152
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 53 93 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 51 61
10th Percentile £403 £408 £450
25th Percentile £492 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £560 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% +4.19% -10.42%
75th Percentile £615 £599 £600
90th Percentile £673 £700 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £538
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.65% -10.42%

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 25,377 30,623 39,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.98% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,381 19,128 27,584
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,485 1,349
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Cloud Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Consultant 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -5 32 £600 +4.35% 20
North of England -22 5 £480 -12.73% 1
South East +12 4 £453 -4.74% 9
Midlands -17 4 £550 +10.00% 2
South West +28 3 £450 -10.00% 1
West Midlands -12 3 £550 +10.00%
North West -22 3 £480 -12.73% 1
East of England +6 2 £638 +10.87% 1
Yorkshire -16 2 £446 -16.05%
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Cloud Consultant
UK

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Cloud Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Consultant in the job title.

1 27 (50.94%) Oracle
2 24 (45.28%) OCI
3 17 (32.08%) Finance
4 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
5 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (22.64%) ERP
6 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
7 11 (20.75%) DevOps
8 10 (18.87%) SAP S/4HANA
8 10 (18.87%) SAP
8 10 (18.87%) Cloud Security
9 9 (16.98%) Migration
9 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (15.09%) Azure
11 7 (13.21%) Data Migration
11 7 (13.21%) Analytics
11 7 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (11.32%) Data Governance
12 6 (11.32%) DevSecOps
12 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
12 6 (11.32%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (11.32%) AWS
12 6 (11.32%) Validation
12 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (11.32%) Salesforce
13 5 (9.43%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (9.43%) Python
13 5 (9.43%) SaaS
13 5 (9.43%) PaaS
13 5 (9.43%) Artificial Intelligence

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.89%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (18.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (1.89%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (1.89%) Primavera
5 1 (1.89%) SAP BPC
5 1 (1.89%) SAP CO
5 1 (1.89%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.89%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) OCI
2 8 (15.09%) Azure
3 6 (11.32%) AWS
4 5 (9.43%) PaaS
4 5 (9.43%) SaaS
5 4 (7.55%) IaaS
6 3 (5.66%) GCP
6 3 (5.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.89%) Cloud Coach
8 1 (1.89%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (1.89%) Responsys
8 1 (1.89%) Serverless
8 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) Network Security
2 2 (3.77%) SSL
2 2 (3.77%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (9.43%) SAP HANA
2 3 (5.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (3.77%) Metadata
3 2 (3.77%) SAP BW
3 2 (3.77%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Git
1 2 (3.77%) Postman
2 1 (1.89%) JMeter
2 1 (1.89%) Locust
2 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 17 (32.08%) Finance
2 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.55%) General Ledger
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Advertising
7 1 (1.89%) Billing
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (5.66%) REST
3 2 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (3.77%) Node.js
3 2 (3.77%) OAuth
3 2 (3.77%) SOAP
3 2 (3.77%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.89%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) JWT
4 1 (1.89%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.89%) OpenID
4 1 (1.89%) SAML
4 1 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.89%) Swagger
4 1 (1.89%) Web Services
4 1 (1.89%) XML
4 1 (1.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
1 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.89%) PKI
2 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (22.64%) ERP
3 11 (20.75%) DevOps
4 10 (18.87%) Cloud Security
5 9 (16.98%) Migration
6 7 (13.21%) Analytics
6 7 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (13.21%) Data Migration
7 6 (11.32%) Data Governance
7 6 (11.32%) DevSecOps
7 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (11.32%) Validation
8 5 (9.43%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (9.43%) SDLC
9 4 (7.55%) Business Transformation
9 4 (7.55%) CI/CD
9 4 (7.55%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.55%) Data Management
9 4 (7.55%) Data Modelling
9 4 (7.55%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.43%) Python
2 3 (5.66%) Java
2 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.77%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.89%) R
4 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) Degree
3 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.77%) CISSP
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) CASB
3 1 (1.89%) Argo
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Istio
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (50.94%) Oracle
2 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
3 10 (18.87%) SAP
4 6 (11.32%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.89%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.89%) Okta
5 1 (1.89%) Pardot
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) VMware