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 14 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
14 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 291 272
Rank change year-on-year +38 -19 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 349 199 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.76% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 0.82% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 134 234
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £464 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £608 £644 £625
90th Percentile £725 £692 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £56.13 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £78.75 - £30.00
75th Percentile £95.94 - £61.38
90th Percentile £104.38 - £78.70
UK median hourly rate £38.88 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.38%

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 31,393 24,237 35,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 93.02% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,928 15,142 23,779
10th Percentile £300 £300 £273
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,007 710 2,124
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.99 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.30 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.46 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -2.23%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 +13 180 £525 -4.55% 38
North of England -15 62 £500 +11.11% 20
South East +3 42 £500 -16.67% 29
Midlands -31 40 £575 +21.05% 9
Yorkshire -24 39 £513 +24.24% 7
West Midlands -23 35 £670 +3.08% 6
North West -16 23 £425 -5.56% 11
South West -4 18 £538 -6.52% 25
East of England -20 10 £438 +37.58% 10
East Midlands -29 5 £575 +26.51% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 February 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.

1 160 (45.85%) AWS
2 156 (44.70%) Terraform
3 151 (43.27%) CI/CD
4 150 (42.98%) DevOps
5 145 (41.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 140 (40.11%) Azure
7 109 (31.23%) Security Cleared
8 101 (28.94%) Python
9 98 (28.08%) Kubernetes
10 81 (23.21%) GitHub
11 78 (22.35%) GCP
12 71 (20.34%) SC Cleared
13 69 (19.77%) Agile
14 67 (19.20%) Containerisation
15 64 (18.34%) Microsoft
16 63 (18.05%) Cloud Security
16 63 (18.05%) Docker
17 55 (15.76%) Google
18 53 (15.19%) Serverless
19 50 (14.33%) Jenkins
20 46 (13.18%) GitHub Actions
21 44 (12.61%) GitLab
22 43 (12.32%) PowerShell
23 42 (12.03%) Microservices
23 42 (12.03%) Migration
23 42 (12.03%) REST
24 40 (11.46%) Infrastructure Automation
25 39 (11.17%) Linux
26 38 (10.89%) Azure Certification
26 38 (10.89%) Cybersecurity

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 4 (1.15%) Apache
1 4 (1.15%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.86%) Confluence
3 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.57%) nginx
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.29%) CMS
4 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 160 (45.85%) AWS
2 140 (40.11%) Azure
3 81 (23.21%) GitHub
4 78 (22.35%) GCP
5 53 (15.19%) Serverless
6 46 (13.18%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (10.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (10.32%) Entra ID
9 31 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (8.60%) PaaS
11 26 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (7.45%) Amazon S3
12 25 (7.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 25 (7.16%) IaaS
13 21 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (5.44%) Azure AKS
16 16 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (4.30%) OCI
18 13 (3.72%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.45%) Firewall
2 19 (5.44%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (5.44%) Cisco IOS
2 19 (5.44%) Cisco ISE
2 19 (5.44%) Junos
3 17 (4.87%) Network Security
4 11 (3.15%) VPN
5 7 (2.01%) DNS
6 5 (1.43%) NX-OS
7 4 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.57%) LAN
8 2 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.57%) VLAN
9 1 (0.29%) HTTP
9 1 (0.29%) IPsec
9 1 (0.29%) SSL
9 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.29%) WAN
9 1 (0.29%) Wireless
9 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.02%) NoSQL
2 23 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.58%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.29%) DynamoDB
4 8 (2.29%) Power BI
5 6 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.15%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.57%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.57%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.57%) OLAP
8 2 (0.57%) OLTP
8 2 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (14.33%) Jenkins
2 44 (12.61%) GitLab
3 25 (7.16%) Git
4 9 (2.58%) JIRA
4 9 (2.58%) Liquibase
5 3 (0.86%) Postman
6 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.57%) Spinnaker
6 2 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.05%) Finance
3 32 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.02%) Banking
5 23 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.15%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.01%) Aeronautics
7 7 (2.01%) Retail
8 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.43%) Aviation
10 4 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.86%) Local Government
12 2 (0.57%) Billing
12 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Legal
12 2 (0.57%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.03%) REST
2 22 (6.30%) Node.js
3 19 (5.44%) RESTful
4 18 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (4.30%) Kafka
6 11 (3.15%) React
7 10 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (2.58%) ARM Templates
8 9 (2.58%) OpenAPI
8 9 (2.58%) OpenID
8 9 (2.58%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (2.29%) SAML
9 8 (2.29%) SOAP
9 8 (2.29%) Spring
10 7 (2.01%) .NET
10 7 (2.01%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.01%) LangChain
10 7 (2.01%) NestJS
10 7 (2.01%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.72%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.48%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.60%) Public Cloud
3 21 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.29%) PKI
7 7 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.86%) Genomics
11 3 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.86%) Life Science
11 3 (0.86%) Replication
11 3 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.57%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.29%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.17%) Linux
2 21 (6.02%) Windows
3 16 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.29%) Unix
5 4 (1.15%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (43.27%) CI/CD
2 150 (42.98%) DevOps
3 145 (41.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (19.77%) Agile
5 67 (19.20%) Containerisation
6 63 (18.05%) Cloud Security
7 42 (12.03%) Microservices
7 42 (12.03%) Migration
8 40 (11.46%) Infrastructure Automation
9 38 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (10.03%) DevSecOps
11 33 (9.46%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (8.02%) AI
14 28 (8.02%) High Availability
14 28 (8.02%) Software Engineering
15 26 (7.45%) Observability
16 25 (7.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 101 (28.94%) Python
2 43 (12.32%) PowerShell
3 36 (10.32%) SQL
4 24 (6.88%) Java
5 20 (5.73%) Go
6 18 (5.16%) Bicep
7 17 (4.87%) Bash
8 13 (3.72%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.58%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.01%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.43%) C#
12 4 (1.15%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.86%) Ruby
14 2 (0.57%) Groovy
14 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.57%) Perl
15 1 (0.29%) C
15 1 (0.29%) Cypher
15 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 71 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.89%) Azure Certification
4 34 (9.74%) DV Cleared
5 28 (8.02%) Degree
6 22 (6.30%) AWS Certification
7 20 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.87%) Master's Degree
9 12 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (2.87%) CISSP
11 8 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.01%) CISM
13 6 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 5 (1.43%) CCSP
14 5 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.44%) GDPR
2 11 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.15%) NIST
3 10 (2.87%) NCSC
4 6 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.72%) QA
5 5 (1.43%) GRC
6 4 (1.15%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 63 (18.05%) Docker
2 28 (8.02%) Active Directory
3 19 (5.44%) VMware NSX
4 11 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.43%) Firmware
7 4 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.29%) KVM
10 1 (0.29%) Squid
10 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 156 (44.70%) Terraform
2 98 (28.08%) Kubernetes
3 36 (10.32%) Ansible
4 27 (7.74%) Prometheus
5 25 (7.16%) Grafana
6 19 (5.44%) vCenter Server
7 16 (4.58%) Istio
8 8 (2.29%) Argo
8 8 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.86%) Podman
10 3 (0.86%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.57%) Consul
11 2 (0.57%) Packer
12 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.29%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.29%) Puppet
12 1 (0.29%) Salt
12 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 55 (15.76%) Google
3 21 (6.02%) Splunk
4 20 (5.73%) Cisco
4 20 (5.73%) Juniper
5 19 (5.44%) SolarWinds
6 17 (4.87%) Oracle
7 11 (3.15%) Databricks
8 10 (2.87%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.01%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.43%) Broadcom
10 5 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.43%) PeopleSoft
10 5 (1.43%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.86%) Citrix
12 3 (0.86%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.86%) VMware
116 Cloud Engineer jobs in England