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 17 January 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 296 262
Rank change year-on-year +18 -34 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 308 208 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.77% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.83% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 129 239
10th Percentile £406 £380 £425
25th Percentile £464 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £30.00
75th Percentile £110.00 - £61.38
90th Percentile - - £78.70
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - £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 29,270 25,024 34,190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 92.98% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,698 15,494 23,173
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
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 1,784 765 1,662
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.91 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £41.91
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -16.48% +19.73%
75th Percentile £61.52 £64.73 £64.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £41.37
% change year-on-year -15.38% -21.43% +18.19%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +4 149 £525 -4.55% 46
North of England -33 55 £500 +15.94% 9
South East +16 45 £500 -13.04% 33
Midlands -17 39 £575 +21.05% 7
Yorkshire -25 34 £513 +24.24% 4
West Midlands -14 33 £575 -11.54% 5
North West -18 21 £450 - 4
South West -6 15 £538 -6.52% 11
East of England -15 10 £438 +6.97% 5
East Midlands -29 6 £575 +27.78% 2
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 January 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.

1 140 (45.45%) DevOps
2 133 (43.18%) AWS
3 130 (42.21%) CI/CD
4 129 (41.88%) Terraform
5 127 (41.23%) Azure
6 123 (39.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 103 (33.44%) Security Cleared
8 97 (31.49%) Python
9 94 (30.52%) Kubernetes
10 76 (24.68%) GCP
10 76 (24.68%) GitHub
11 64 (20.78%) SC Cleared
12 63 (20.45%) Agile
13 59 (19.16%) Containerisation
13 59 (19.16%) Docker
14 56 (18.18%) Microsoft
15 53 (17.21%) Google
16 51 (16.56%) Cloud Security
16 51 (16.56%) Jenkins
17 46 (14.94%) GitHub Actions
18 44 (14.29%) Serverless
19 41 (13.31%) GitLab
20 39 (12.66%) Linux
21 38 (12.34%) REST
22 37 (12.01%) PowerShell
23 36 (11.69%) Ansible
23 36 (11.69%) Microservices
24 35 (11.36%) DV Cleared
24 35 (11.36%) Entra ID
24 35 (11.36%) SQL

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 5 (1.62%) Apache
1 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (43.18%) AWS
2 127 (41.23%) Azure
3 76 (24.68%) GCP
3 76 (24.68%) GitHub
4 46 (14.94%) GitHub Actions
5 44 (14.29%) Serverless
6 35 (11.36%) Entra ID
7 31 (10.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (7.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 24 (7.79%) PaaS
10 22 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (7.14%) IaaS
11 19 (6.17%) Amazon S3
12 18 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (4.55%) Azure AKS
15 13 (4.22%) Azure Sentinel
16 12 (3.90%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.77%) Firewall
2 21 (6.82%) Cisco Firepower
2 21 (6.82%) Cisco IOS
2 21 (6.82%) Cisco ISE
2 21 (6.82%) Junos
3 15 (4.87%) Network Security
4 9 (2.92%) VPN
5 5 (1.62%) DNS
5 5 (1.62%) NX-OS
6 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.97%) WAN
7 2 (0.65%) LAN
7 2 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.65%) SAN
7 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.32%) BGP
8 1 (0.32%) IPsec
8 1 (0.32%) VLAN
8 1 (0.32%) VRRP
8 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 24 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.92%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.60%) Power BI
5 6 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.62%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.97%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.97%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.65%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.65%) OLAP
8 2 (0.65%) OLTP
8 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (16.56%) Jenkins
2 41 (13.31%) GitLab
3 27 (8.77%) Git
4 10 (3.25%) Liquibase
5 9 (2.92%) JIRA
6 3 (0.97%) Postman
7 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.65%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (17.53%) Finance
2 53 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.77%) Banking
4 25 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.27%) Aeronautics
9 6 (1.95%) Local Government
9 6 (1.95%) Retail
10 5 (1.62%) Aviation
10 5 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.62%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Billing
12 2 (0.65%) Marketing
12 2 (0.65%) Military
13 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.34%) REST
2 19 (6.17%) RESTful
3 18 (5.84%) Node.js
4 17 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (4.22%) ARM Templates
5 13 (4.22%) Kafka
6 9 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (2.92%) React
7 8 (2.60%) OpenAPI
7 8 (2.60%) SAML
7 8 (2.60%) SOAP
8 7 (2.27%) OpenID
8 7 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.95%) .NET
9 6 (1.95%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.95%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.95%) JSON
9 6 (1.95%) NestJS
9 6 (1.95%) Spring
9 6 (1.95%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.53%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.04%) Public Cloud
3 19 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.60%) PKI
5 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.62%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.62%) Genomics
6 5 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.62%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.62%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.30%) Life Science
8 3 (0.97%) Replication
9 2 (0.65%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.32%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.66%) Linux
2 25 (8.12%) Windows
3 19 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.92%) Unix
5 4 (1.30%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (45.45%) DevOps
2 130 (42.21%) CI/CD
3 123 (39.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (20.45%) Agile
5 59 (19.16%) Containerisation
6 51 (16.56%) Cloud Security
7 36 (11.69%) Microservices
8 34 (11.04%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (10.39%) DevSecOps
9 32 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (10.06%) Infrastructure Automation
10 31 (10.06%) Migration
11 30 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (9.42%) High Availability
13 27 (8.77%) AI
13 27 (8.77%) Software Engineering
14 25 (8.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (8.12%) Observability
15 24 (7.79%) Analytics
15 24 (7.79%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 97 (31.49%) Python
2 37 (12.01%) PowerShell
3 35 (11.36%) SQL
4 24 (7.79%) Java
5 23 (7.47%) Go
6 19 (6.17%) Bash
7 18 (5.84%) Bicep
8 11 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.95%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.62%) C#
12 4 (1.30%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.30%) Perl
13 3 (0.97%) Ruby
14 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.32%) C
15 1 (0.32%) Groovy
15 1 (0.32%) Korn
15 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (33.44%) Security Cleared
2 64 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 34 (11.04%) Azure Certification
5 30 (9.74%) Degree
6 22 (7.14%) AWS Certification
7 19 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (5.52%) Master's Degree
9 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.60%) CISSP
11 7 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.62%) CCSP
12 5 (1.62%) CISM
13 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.97%) SANS
14 3 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (3.25%) NCSC
1 10 (3.25%) NIST
2 9 (2.92%) GDPR
3 7 (2.27%) QA
4 5 (1.62%) GRC
4 5 (1.62%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (19.16%) Docker
2 32 (10.39%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.82%) VMware NSX
4 9 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.30%) Firmware
7 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.32%) KVM
9 1 (0.32%) Squid
Systems Management
1 129 (41.88%) Terraform
2 94 (30.52%) Kubernetes
3 36 (11.69%) Ansible
4 26 (8.44%) Prometheus
5 25 (8.12%) Grafana
6 21 (6.82%) vCenter Server
7 14 (4.55%) Istio
8 7 (2.27%) Argo
9 6 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.97%) Podman
11 3 (0.97%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.65%) Puppet
13 1 (0.32%) Consul
13 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.32%) Packer
13 1 (0.32%) Salt
13 1 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 53 (17.21%) Google
3 23 (7.47%) Cisco
4 22 (7.14%) Juniper
5 21 (6.82%) SolarWinds
5 21 (6.82%) Splunk
6 15 (4.87%) Oracle
7 11 (3.57%) Databricks
8 9 (2.92%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.60%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.95%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.62%) Broadcom
11 5 (1.62%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.62%) VMware
12 4 (1.30%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.30%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.30%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.97%) Zscaler
14 2 (0.65%) Cloudera
14 2 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud