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 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
29 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 299 319
Rank change year-on-year +99 +20 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 654 217 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 0.78% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 0.85% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 161 139
10th Percentile £413 £402 £397
25th Percentile £462 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £618 £575 £631
90th Percentile £687 £633 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 0
10th Percentile £23.20 £29.00 -
25th Percentile £34.02 £29.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% - -
75th Percentile £81.25 £86.25 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +71.11% - -

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 42,428 25,399 30,679
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.54% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,511 16,402 19,718
10th Percentile £325 £281 £302
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,254 1,363 1,634
10th Percentile £15.15 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £20.74
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Engineer 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 August 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 +59 304 £525 - 509
South East +15 124 £538 +7.50% 63
North of England +9 120 £513 +13.89% 97
North West -7 72 £533 +18.44% 51
Midlands +7 65 £500 +5.26% 44
Yorkshire -11 41 £467 -6.62% 34
East Midlands +10 32 £463 -2.63% 18
West Midlands -9 32 £525 -2.78% 26
East of England -6 19 £488 +0.52% 33
South West -31 14 £625 +13.64% 47
North East -36 7 £525 +10.53% 12
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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.

1 331 (50.61%) Azure
2 268 (40.98%) Terraform
3 225 (34.40%) AWS
3 225 (34.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 218 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 188 (28.75%) Security Cleared
6 175 (26.76%) DevOps
7 155 (23.70%) Cloud Security
7 155 (23.70%) Kubernetes
8 151 (23.09%) Python
9 149 (22.78%) PowerShell
10 145 (22.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 144 (22.02%) Microsoft
12 138 (21.10%) SC Cleared
13 128 (19.57%) GCP
14 121 (18.50%) Platform Engineering
15 106 (16.21%) Windows
16 81 (12.39%) Google
17 80 (12.23%) Migration
18 79 (12.08%) Agile
18 79 (12.08%) AI
18 79 (12.08%) Entra ID
19 75 (11.47%) DNS
20 74 (11.31%) Firewall
21 73 (11.16%) GitHub
22 72 (11.01%) Active Directory
22 72 (11.01%) Bash
23 70 (10.70%) VMware
24 68 (10.40%) Bicep
24 68 (10.40%) Observability

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 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.53%) Apache
3 6 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.92%) Confluence
3 6 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.46%) IIS
4 3 (0.46%) nginx
4 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.31%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 331 (50.61%) Azure
2 225 (34.40%) AWS
3 128 (19.57%) GCP
4 79 (12.08%) Entra ID
5 73 (11.16%) GitHub
6 52 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (7.65%) Serverless
8 48 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (6.73%) IaaS
10 38 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (5.81%) Azure AKS
11 37 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 31 (4.74%) PaaS
14 30 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
15 29 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
16 27 (4.13%) SaaS
17 25 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.47%) DNS
2 74 (11.31%) Firewall
3 38 (5.81%) Network Security
4 31 (4.74%) VPN
5 18 (2.75%) DHCP
6 17 (2.60%) WAN
7 15 (2.29%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.83%) Internet
9 6 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.92%) VLAN
10 5 (0.76%) LAN
10 5 (0.76%) SSL
10 5 (0.76%) VSAN
11 4 (0.61%) SAN
11 4 (0.61%) Wireless
12 3 (0.46%) BGP
12 3 (0.46%) IPv4
12 3 (0.46%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.46%) NGFW
12 3 (0.46%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.53%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.22%) Oracle Exadata
6 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.76%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.46%) Flink
9 3 (0.46%) Looker
9 3 (0.46%) MySQL
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.31%) Big Data
10 2 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.31%) Metadata
10 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (7.03%) GitLab
2 33 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 27 (4.13%) Git
4 11 (1.68%) JIRA
5 7 (1.07%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.46%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.31%) Gatling
7 2 (0.31%) JMeter
7 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.15%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.15%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 78 (11.93%) Finance
2 68 (10.40%) Social Skills
3 59 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 28 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (3.82%) Banking
6 9 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.92%) Investment Banking
8 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
9 5 (0.76%) Law
9 5 (0.76%) Local Government
10 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.46%) Digital Health
10 3 (0.46%) Front Office
10 3 (0.46%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.46%) Legal
10 3 (0.46%) Marketing
10 3 (0.46%) Military
10 3 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (40.98%) Terraform
2 19 (2.91%) REST
3 14 (2.14%) ARM Templates
4 13 (1.99%) Kafka
5 11 (1.68%) Spring
5 11 (1.68%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.38%) OAuth
6 9 (1.38%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.22%) YAML
8 6 (0.92%) FastAPI
8 6 (0.92%) Flask
8 6 (0.92%) React
9 5 (0.76%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.61%) .NET
10 4 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (0.61%) Hugging Face
10 4 (0.61%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.61%) OpenID
10 4 (0.61%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 104 (15.90%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.72%) Security Posture
3 37 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (4.74%) Enterprise Cloud
5 29 (4.43%) Cloud Security Posture
6 19 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.45%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.83%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.92%) PKI
13 6 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
15 4 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 106 (16.21%) Windows
2 67 (10.24%) Linux
3 55 (8.41%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.46%) CentOS
7 3 (0.46%) VMS
8 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (34.40%) Infrastructure as Code
2 218 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 175 (26.76%) DevOps
4 155 (23.70%) Cloud Security
5 145 (22.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 121 (18.50%) Platform Engineering
7 80 (12.23%) Migration
8 79 (12.08%) Agile
8 79 (12.08%) AI
9 68 (10.40%) Observability
10 61 (9.33%) Containerisation
11 58 (8.87%) Technical Leadership
12 54 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (8.10%) DevSecOps
14 52 (7.95%) Software Engineering
15 49 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
16 46 (7.03%) Change Management
16 46 (7.03%) Infrastructure Automation
17 43 (6.57%) Deployment Automation
17 43 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 151 (23.09%) Python
2 149 (22.78%) PowerShell
3 72 (11.01%) Bash
4 68 (10.40%) Bicep
5 60 (9.17%) SQL
6 32 (4.89%) Java
7 18 (2.75%) C#
8 10 (1.53%) Go
9 9 (1.38%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.61%) Groovy
11 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.46%) C
12 3 (0.46%) Scala
13 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.15%) Perl
14 1 (0.15%) R
14 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 188 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 138 (21.10%) SC Cleared
3 67 (10.24%) DV Cleared
4 43 (6.57%) Azure Certification
5 41 (6.27%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.74%) Degree
7 17 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (2.29%) CISSP
9 11 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.92%) CCNP
12 6 (0.92%) CISM
12 6 (0.92%) MCSE
13 5 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.61%) CCIE
15 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.46%) CEH
16 2 (0.31%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.53%) NIST
3 10 (1.53%) QA
4 9 (1.38%) NCSC
5 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.76%) GDPR
6 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.15%) GRC
8 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (11.01%) Active Directory
2 61 (9.33%) Docker
3 45 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (4.74%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (4.59%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (3.82%) VMware NSX
7 19 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (2.91%) vSphere
8 14 (2.14%) vCloud
9 11 (1.68%) Hyper-V
10 7 (1.07%) Squid
11 4 (0.61%) Firmware
12 3 (0.46%) Ceph
12 3 (0.46%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.46%) NFS
12 3 (0.46%) Postfix
13 2 (0.31%) KVM
13 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 155 (23.70%) Kubernetes
2 46 (7.03%) Ansible
3 27 (4.13%) vCenter Server
4 23 (3.52%) SCOM
5 22 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (2.91%) Grafana
7 18 (2.75%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.75%) Prometheus
8 14 (2.14%) Puppet
9 11 (1.68%) Istio
10 8 (1.22%) Packer
11 7 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.76%) VxRail
13 4 (0.61%) Suricata
14 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.46%) Cilium
14 3 (0.46%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.46%) vRealize
15 2 (0.31%) Argo
15 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 144 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 81 (12.39%) Google
3 70 (10.70%) VMware
4 31 (4.74%) Oracle
5 17 (2.60%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.29%) Zscaler
7 14 (2.14%) Databricks
8 11 (1.68%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.68%) Splunk
9 10 (1.53%) Broadcom
9 10 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.53%) SolarWinds
10 9 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.22%) Cisco
12 7 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (1.07%) New Relic
13 5 (0.76%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.76%) Fortinet
789 Cloud Engineer jobs in England