Cloud Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Developer
UK > England

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 485 511
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 +110
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 70 28 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.095% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 20 24
10th Percentile £411 £310 £322
25th Percentile £438 £411 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £554
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -16.48% -11.40%
75th Percentile £565 £554 £675
90th Percentile £675 £675 £850
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £554
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.71% -9.96%

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 28,356 27,251 35,230
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,121 16,963 24,204
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,744 892 1,356
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.64 £15.29
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.87
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.35 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Cloud Developer job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in England

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Developer in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Developer in England

Cloud Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in England

Cloud Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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 +7 30 £520 +12.43% 2
South East +13 12 £600 - 2
North of England - 11 £475 - 7
Midlands - 10 £475 -
West Midlands - 9 £475 -
North West - 7 £475 - 7
South West -5 5 £500 -
Yorkshire - 4 £475 -
East Midlands - 1 £400 -
Cloud Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Cloud Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 29 (41.43%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (34.29%) Azure
3 22 (31.43%) Python
4 21 (30.00%) DevOps
5 20 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 18 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (21.43%) IFS
7 15 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (20.00%) AWS
8 14 (20.00%) SQL
9 13 (18.57%) Serverless
10 11 (15.71%) Agile
10 11 (15.71%) GCP
10 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
11 10 (14.29%) Git
11 10 (14.29%) Kubernetes
11 10 (14.29%) Relational Database
12 9 (12.86%) Node.js
12 9 (12.86%) REST
12 9 (12.86%) Salesforce
13 8 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (11.43%) ETL
13 8 (11.43%) GitHub
13 8 (11.43%) Google
13 8 (11.43%) MySQL
13 8 (11.43%) Oracle
14 7 (10.00%) AI
14 7 (10.00%) API Management
14 7 (10.00%) Apigee
14 7 (10.00%) Azure AKS

Cloud Developer 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 (1.43%) Apache
1 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.29%) Azure
2 18 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (20.00%) AWS
4 13 (18.57%) Serverless
5 11 (15.71%) GCP
6 8 (11.43%) GitHub
7 7 (10.00%) Apigee
7 7 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 7 (10.00%) Cloud Functions
8 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
9 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (5.71%) OCI
11 3 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (4.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.86%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 8 (11.43%) MySQL
4 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.29%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.43%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.43%) Big Data
6 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.43%) Redis
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (21.43%) Finance
2 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Financial Institution
4 3 (4.29%) Front Office
5 2 (2.86%) Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (1.43%) Billing
6 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) Node.js
1 9 (12.86%) REST
2 6 (8.57%) RESTful
3 4 (5.71%) FastAPI
3 4 (5.71%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (5.71%) SOAP
4 3 (4.29%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.29%) HTML
4 3 (4.29%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (4.29%) React
5 2 (2.86%) .NET
5 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.86%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.86%) CSS
5 2 (2.86%) Spring
5 2 (2.86%) Web Services
5 2 (2.86%) XML
5 2 (2.86%) YAML
6 1 (1.43%) Middleware
6 1 (1.43%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.86%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (41.43%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (30.00%) DevOps
3 20 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 11 (15.71%) Agile
5 8 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (11.43%) ETL
6 7 (10.00%) AI
6 7 (10.00%) API Management
6 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (10.00%) Task Automation
7 6 (8.57%) Cloud Security
7 6 (8.57%) Microservices
8 5 (7.14%) Containerisation
8 5 (7.14%) Data Modelling
8 5 (7.14%) SDLC
8 5 (7.14%) Storage Management
8 5 (7.14%) Test Automation
9 4 (5.71%) Design Patterns
9 4 (5.71%) Generative AI
9 4 (5.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.43%) Python
2 14 (20.00%) SQL
3 6 (8.57%) VBA
4 5 (7.14%) Bash
4 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.71%) Apex Code
5 4 (5.71%) Java
5 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.29%) Bicep
6 3 (4.29%) C#
7 2 (2.86%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.43%) Go
8 1 (1.43%) SOQL
8 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.43%) GDPR
1 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Podman
3 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (21.43%) IFS
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.86%) Salesforce
4 8 (11.43%) Google
4 8 (11.43%) Oracle
5 5 (7.14%) Databricks
5 5 (7.14%) Virgin Media
6 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Ariba
7 1 (1.43%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.43%) Facebook
7 1 (1.43%) Informatica
7 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.43%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.43%) SAP