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 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
14 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 288 304
Rank change year-on-year +35 +16 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 395 195 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.80% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 0.86% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 155 173
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £462 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £613
90th Percentile £708 £675 £698
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £30.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 36,091 22,604 34,341
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.70% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,674 15,128 22,897
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 855 2,346
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.45 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.90%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.48
UK median hourly rate £41.53 £31.42 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.16% -10.22% -22.22%

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 April 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 14 April 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 +25 227 £525 - 49
North of England -43 54 £506 +3.90% 38
South East -31 39 £522 -7.20% 24
Yorkshire -34 28 £481 +48.08% 13
Midlands -55 27 £676 +42.37% 9
North West -21 26 £538 +19.44% 20
South West -11 24 £550 -4.35% 12
West Midlands -49 21 £680 +15.74% 8
East of England -18 18 £510 +3.55% 10
East Midlands -34 6 £575 +21.05% 1
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 April 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 (47.59%) Terraform
2 178 (45.06%) Azure
3 167 (42.28%) AWS
3 167 (42.28%) CI/CD
4 157 (39.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (38.73%) DevOps
6 117 (29.62%) Security Cleared
7 101 (25.57%) Kubernetes
8 99 (25.06%) GCP
9 96 (24.30%) SC Cleared
10 89 (22.53%) Python
11 84 (21.27%) Cloud Security
11 84 (21.27%) GitHub
12 79 (20.00%) Google
12 79 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 71 (17.97%) Agile
14 63 (15.95%) PowerShell
15 58 (14.68%) Docker
16 55 (13.92%) Containerisation
16 55 (13.92%) Migration
17 53 (13.42%) Platform Engineering
18 51 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 49 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
20 46 (11.65%) Serverless
21 42 (10.63%) Firewall
22 41 (10.38%) Azure Certification
22 41 (10.38%) DevSecOps
23 40 (10.13%) Jenkins
24 39 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
24 39 (9.87%) 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 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.01%) Confluence
3 3 (0.76%) Apache
3 3 (0.76%) nginx
4 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
5 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 178 (45.06%) Azure
2 167 (42.28%) AWS
3 99 (25.06%) GCP
4 84 (21.27%) GitHub
5 49 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
6 46 (11.65%) Serverless
7 37 (9.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (9.11%) Entra ID
9 35 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (8.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 33 (8.35%) PaaS
11 30 (7.59%) Amazon S3
11 30 (7.59%) IaaS
12 29 (7.34%) Azure AKS
13 24 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (4.56%) SaaS
16 18 (4.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (4.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.63%) Firewall
2 17 (4.30%) Network Security
3 14 (3.54%) VPN
4 12 (3.04%) DNS
5 8 (2.03%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (1.77%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (1.77%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (1.77%) Junos
7 6 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.27%) NX-OS
9 4 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.51%) BGP
10 2 (0.51%) DKIM
10 2 (0.51%) SMTP
10 2 (0.51%) VLAN
11 1 (0.25%) DHCP
11 1 (0.25%) HTTP
11 1 (0.25%) ICMP
11 1 (0.25%) OSPF
11 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.04%) BigQuery
2 10 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (1.77%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.52%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.52%) Power BI
5 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.76%) Big Data
7 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.76%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.51%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.51%) OLAP
8 2 (0.51%) OLTP
8 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (10.13%) Jenkins
2 32 (8.10%) GitLab
3 31 (7.85%) Git
4 6 (1.52%) JIRA
5 4 (1.01%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.76%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.76%) Postman
6 3 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.51%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.51%) Selenium
7 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.25%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.25%) sqlmap
General
1 53 (13.42%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.41%) Finance
3 34 (8.61%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.56%) Banking
5 15 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.77%) Aeronautics
6 7 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.77%) Retail
7 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.52%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.27%) Legal
9 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.76%) Marketing
10 3 (0.76%) Military
11 2 (0.51%) Law
11 2 (0.51%) Local Government
11 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.51%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.33%) REST
2 22 (5.57%) Node.js
3 12 (3.04%) Kafka
4 11 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (2.28%) React
5 9 (2.28%) Spring
6 8 (2.03%) .NET
6 8 (2.03%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.03%) SOAP
6 8 (2.03%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.77%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.77%) OAuth
7 7 (1.77%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.77%) Playwright
8 6 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (1.52%) LangChain
8 6 (1.52%) OpenID
8 6 (1.52%) RESTful
8 6 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.24%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.35%) Public Cloud
3 16 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.28%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.27%) PKI
9 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.76%) Replication
11 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Life Science
12 1 (0.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.58%) Linux
2 25 (6.33%) Windows
3 11 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.01%) Unix
4 4 (1.01%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (42.28%) CI/CD
2 157 (39.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 153 (38.73%) DevOps
4 84 (21.27%) Cloud Security
5 71 (17.97%) Agile
6 55 (13.92%) Containerisation
6 55 (13.92%) Migration
7 53 (13.42%) Platform Engineering
8 51 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (10.38%) DevSecOps
10 39 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (9.62%) Observability
12 34 (8.61%) AI
13 33 (8.35%) Infrastructure Automation
13 33 (8.35%) Software Engineering
14 32 (8.10%) Microservices
14 32 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
16 26 (6.58%) Mentoring
17 23 (5.82%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 89 (22.53%) Python
2 63 (15.95%) PowerShell
3 39 (9.87%) SQL
4 28 (7.09%) Bash
5 26 (6.58%) Java
6 25 (6.33%) Bicep
7 13 (3.29%) C#
7 13 (3.29%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.28%) Go
9 5 (1.27%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.01%) BeanShell
10 4 (1.01%) Groovy
10 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.51%) Ruby
12 1 (0.25%) C
12 1 (0.25%) Cypher
12 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 117 (29.62%) Security Cleared
2 96 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.38%) Azure Certification
4 21 (5.32%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.56%) Degree
6 17 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.04%) CISSP
9 10 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.77%) CISM
12 6 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.01%) CCSP
14 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.76%) CCNP
15 3 (0.76%) OSCP
15 3 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.78%) NCSC
2 10 (2.53%) GDPR
2 10 (2.53%) NIST
3 9 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.03%) QA
5 6 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.27%) GRC
7 2 (0.51%) SLA
7 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (14.68%) Docker
2 21 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (3.04%) VMware NSX
5 11 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.52%) Firmware
7 5 (1.27%) vSphere
8 4 (1.01%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
10 1 (0.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 188 (47.59%) Terraform
2 101 (25.57%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.82%) Prometheus
4 22 (5.57%) Ansible
5 19 (4.81%) Istio
6 18 (4.56%) Grafana
7 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.03%) Argo
9 8 (2.03%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.52%) Packer
11 4 (1.01%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.01%) Puppet
11 4 (1.01%) Salt
12 2 (0.51%) Cilium
12 2 (0.51%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.25%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 79 (20.00%) Google
1 79 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.05%) Oracle
3 12 (3.04%) Cisco
4 9 (2.28%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.28%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.28%) Splunk
5 8 (2.03%) Databricks
5 8 (2.03%) Juniper
5 8 (2.03%) VMware
6 7 (1.77%) SolarWinds
7 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.27%) Broadcom
8 5 (1.27%) Citrix
8 5 (1.27%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.27%) PeopleSoft
8 5 (1.27%) Ping Identity
8 5 (1.27%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.01%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
136 Cloud Engineer jobs in England