Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 290 291
Rank change year-on-year +37 +1 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 390 196 277
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.80% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 0.86% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 151 202
10th Percentile £400 £380 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £615 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £30.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £46.94
90th Percentile - - £72.93
UK median hourly rate £25.25 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -58.90%

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 35,057 22,720 34,933
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.93% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,082 15,205 23,344
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,308 839 2,296
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.96
25th Percentile £19.90 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.92 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% +6.15% -23.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.25 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -24.36%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 March 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 +33 220 £525 - 47
North of England -19 67 £513 +7.89% 33
Yorkshire -23 39 £506 +55.77% 13
Midlands -48 37 £575 +21.05% 8
South East -30 34 £522 -7.20% 29
West Midlands -32 32 £623 +5.96% 5
North West -26 28 £513 +13.89% 17
South West -11 21 £544 -5.43% 15
East of England -23 14 £500 +1.52% 5
East Midlands -35 5 £575 +23.13% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 March 2026, Cloud Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 188 (48.21%) Terraform
2 171 (43.85%) AWS
3 168 (43.08%) CI/CD
4 163 (41.79%) Azure
4 163 (41.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 161 (41.28%) DevOps
6 104 (26.67%) GCP
6 104 (26.67%) Kubernetes
6 104 (26.67%) Security Cleared
7 101 (25.90%) Python
8 89 (22.82%) GitHub
9 81 (20.77%) Google
10 79 (20.26%) Agile
11 77 (19.74%) SC Cleared
12 75 (19.23%) Cloud Security
13 72 (18.46%) Microsoft
14 66 (16.92%) Containerisation
15 65 (16.67%) Docker
16 60 (15.38%) PowerShell
17 56 (14.36%) Serverless
18 52 (13.33%) Jenkins
19 51 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
19 51 (13.08%) Migration
20 49 (12.56%) Platform Engineering
21 43 (11.03%) Azure Certification
22 42 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 41 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
23 41 (10.51%) GitLab
23 41 (10.51%) Infrastructure Automation
24 40 (10.26%) Linux

Cloud Engineer 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 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.03%) Apache
2 4 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.03%) Confluence
3 3 (0.77%) nginx
4 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.26%) SAS
5 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 171 (43.85%) AWS
2 163 (41.79%) Azure
3 104 (26.67%) GCP
4 89 (22.82%) GitHub
5 56 (14.36%) Serverless
6 51 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (9.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (9.49%) Entra ID
9 34 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (8.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 32 (8.21%) PaaS
11 28 (7.18%) Amazon S3
11 28 (7.18%) IaaS
12 26 (6.67%) Azure AKS
13 23 (5.90%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (4.36%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.49%) Firewall
2 17 (4.36%) Network Security
3 16 (4.10%) VPN
4 13 (3.33%) DNS
5 10 (2.56%) Cisco Firepower
5 10 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
5 10 (2.56%) Cisco ISE
5 10 (2.56%) Junos
6 5 (1.28%) NX-OS
7 4 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.51%) BGP
8 2 (0.51%) DKIM
8 2 (0.51%) LAN
8 2 (0.51%) VLAN
8 2 (0.51%) WAN
9 1 (0.26%) ICMP
9 1 (0.26%) MPLS
9 1 (0.26%) OSPF
9 1 (0.26%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.56%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.54%) Power BI
6 5 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.03%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.77%) Big Data
8 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.51%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.51%) OLAP
9 2 (0.51%) OLTP
9 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 41 (10.51%) GitLab
3 29 (7.44%) Git
4 7 (1.79%) Liquibase
5 6 (1.54%) JIRA
6 3 (0.77%) Postman
6 3 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.51%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.51%) Selenium
7 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.26%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.26%) JUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.26%) sqlmap
General
1 63 (16.15%) Finance
2 60 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 31 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.44%) Banking
5 16 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.82%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.79%) Aeronautics
8 7 (1.79%) Retail
9 6 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.03%) Legal
11 3 (0.77%) Local Government
11 3 (0.77%) Marketing
12 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.26%) Front Office
13 1 (0.26%) Military
13 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.00%) REST
2 23 (5.90%) Node.js
3 17 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (4.36%) RESTful
4 12 (3.08%) Kafka
5 11 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (2.56%) React
7 9 (2.31%) OpenAPI
7 9 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (2.31%) Spring
8 8 (2.05%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.05%) SOAP
8 8 (2.05%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.79%) .NET
9 7 (1.79%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.79%) Lambda Expressions
9 7 (1.79%) NestJS
9 7 (1.79%) OAuth
9 7 (1.79%) OpenID
9 7 (1.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.49%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.26%) Public Cloud
3 19 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.05%) PKI
6 8 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.05%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.77%) Replication
12 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.51%) Life Science
12 2 (0.51%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.51%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.26%) Linux
2 24 (6.15%) Windows
3 10 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.05%) Unix
5 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.03%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (43.08%) CI/CD
2 163 (41.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 161 (41.28%) DevOps
4 79 (20.26%) Agile
5 75 (19.23%) Cloud Security
6 66 (16.92%) Containerisation
7 51 (13.08%) Migration
8 49 (12.56%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 41 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (10.51%) Infrastructure Automation
11 40 (10.26%) Microservices
12 36 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (8.72%) Software Engineering
14 33 (8.46%) DevSecOps
14 33 (8.46%) Observability
15 31 (7.95%) AI
16 30 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (6.67%) Analytics
18 25 (6.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 101 (25.90%) Python
2 60 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 40 (10.26%) SQL
4 27 (6.92%) Bash
4 27 (6.92%) Java
5 22 (5.64%) Bicep
6 20 (5.13%) Go
7 15 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.82%) C#
9 6 (1.54%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.03%) BeanShell
10 4 (1.03%) Groovy
11 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.51%) Ruby
12 1 (0.26%) C
12 1 (0.26%) Cypher
12 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 104 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 43 (11.03%) Azure Certification
4 29 (7.44%) Degree
5 23 (5.90%) DV Cleared
6 21 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (4.87%) AWS Certification
8 15 (3.85%) Master's Degree
9 13 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (3.08%) CISSP
11 10 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.79%) CISM
14 6 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.28%) CCSP
15 5 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 3 (0.77%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.08%) GDPR
2 10 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.31%) NIST
4 8 (2.05%) NCSC
5 6 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.28%) GRC
6 5 (1.28%) QA
7 2 (0.51%) SLA
7 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (16.67%) Docker
2 23 (5.90%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.08%) VMware NSX
4 11 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.54%) Firmware
6 4 (1.03%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.51%) vSphere
9 1 (0.26%) Squid
Systems Management
1 188 (48.21%) Terraform
2 104 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 34 (8.72%) Ansible
4 28 (7.18%) Prometheus
5 25 (6.41%) Grafana
6 19 (4.87%) Istio
7 11 (2.82%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.05%) Argo
11 4 (1.03%) Packer
11 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.77%) Podman
12 3 (0.77%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.51%) Consul
13 2 (0.51%) Puppet
13 2 (0.51%) Salt
14 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.26%) PaperCut
14 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 81 (20.77%) Google
2 72 (18.46%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.13%) Splunk
4 16 (4.10%) Oracle
5 14 (3.59%) Cisco
6 11 (2.82%) Juniper
7 10 (2.56%) Databricks
7 10 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.56%) SolarWinds
8 7 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.79%) Ping Identity
9 6 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.28%) Broadcom
10 5 (1.28%) Citrix
10 5 (1.28%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.28%) PeopleSoft
10 5 (1.28%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.28%) VMware
11 4 (1.03%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.03%) Zscaler