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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 299 320
Rank change year-on-year +63 +21 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 421 190 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 0.77% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.83% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 152 170
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £618 £625 £612
90th Percentile £702 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -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 36,696 22,801 34,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.69% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,998 15,199 22,979
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 888 2,404
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.14% -9.26% -22.22%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £29.23 £35.50
% change year-on-year +45.40% -17.66% -21.11%

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 24 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 24 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 +44 240 £525 - 53
North of England -31 57 £513 +10.81% 35
South East -32 44 £510 -9.33% 30
Yorkshire -24 28 £481 +13.24% 12
Midlands -45 28 £673 +37.95% 12
North West -22 27 £525 +16.67% 18
South West -14 23 £550 -4.35% 13
East of England -16 23 £510 +3.55% 11
West Midlands -44 22 £680 +15.74% 11
East Midlands -35 6 £575 +21.05% 1
North East -20 2 £525 -12.50% 5
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 196 (46.56%) Azure
2 194 (46.08%) Terraform
3 177 (42.04%) AWS
4 171 (40.62%) CI/CD
5 164 (38.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 158 (37.53%) DevOps
7 127 (30.17%) Security Cleared
8 108 (25.65%) SC Cleared
9 103 (24.47%) Kubernetes
10 99 (23.52%) GCP
11 89 (21.14%) Python
12 86 (20.43%) Cloud Security
12 86 (20.43%) GitHub
13 81 (19.24%) Microsoft
14 77 (18.29%) Google
15 73 (17.34%) Agile
16 69 (16.39%) PowerShell
17 58 (13.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 57 (13.54%) Docker
18 57 (13.54%) Migration
19 54 (12.83%) Containerisation
19 54 (12.83%) Platform Engineering
20 53 (12.59%) GitHub Actions
21 46 (10.93%) Serverless
22 43 (10.21%) Firewall
22 43 (10.21%) SQL
23 42 (9.98%) Azure Certification
23 42 (9.98%) DevSecOps
24 40 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
25 38 (9.03%) AI

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 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.19%) Confluence
3 4 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.71%) Apache
4 3 (0.71%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 196 (46.56%) Azure
2 177 (42.04%) AWS
3 99 (23.52%) GCP
4 86 (20.43%) GitHub
5 53 (12.59%) GitHub Actions
6 46 (10.93%) Serverless
7 38 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (8.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (8.79%) Entra ID
9 33 (7.84%) Azure AKS
9 33 (7.84%) PaaS
10 31 (7.36%) Amazon S3
10 31 (7.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 29 (6.89%) IaaS
12 25 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (4.75%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (4.28%) SaaS
15 18 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.21%) Firewall
2 17 (4.04%) Network Security
3 15 (3.56%) VPN
4 13 (3.09%) DNS
5 7 (1.66%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (1.43%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (1.43%) Junos
6 6 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.19%) NX-OS
8 4 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.71%) SMTP
10 2 (0.48%) BGP
10 2 (0.48%) DKIM
10 2 (0.48%) VLAN
11 1 (0.24%) ICMP
11 1 (0.24%) OSPF
11 1 (0.24%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.24%) Wireless
11 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.85%) BigQuery
2 11 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (1.66%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.43%) Power BI
5 5 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.71%) Big Data
7 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.48%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.48%) OLAP
8 2 (0.48%) OLTP
8 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (8.79%) Jenkins
2 31 (7.36%) Git
2 31 (7.36%) GitLab
3 7 (1.66%) JIRA
4 4 (0.95%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.71%) Liquibase
5 3 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.48%) Postman
6 2 (0.48%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.48%) Selenium
6 2 (0.48%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.24%) JUnit
7 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.24%) sqlmap
General
1 55 (13.06%) Social Skills
2 50 (11.88%) Finance
3 35 (8.31%) Public Sector
4 17 (4.04%) Banking
5 15 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.90%) Retail
8 7 (1.66%) Aeronautics
8 7 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.19%) Legal
10 5 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.95%) Marketing
12 3 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.48%) Law
13 2 (0.48%) Local Government
13 2 (0.48%) Police
14 1 (0.24%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.46%) REST
2 21 (4.99%) Node.js
3 12 (2.85%) Kafka
4 11 (2.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (2.61%) React
5 9 (2.14%) Spring
6 8 (1.90%) .NET
6 8 (1.90%) ARM Templates
6 8 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (1.90%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.66%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.66%) OAuth
7 7 (1.66%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.66%) OpenID
7 7 (1.66%) Playwright
7 7 (1.66%) SOAP
8 6 (1.43%) LangChain
8 6 (1.43%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.19%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.19%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 76 (18.05%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.89%) Public Cloud
3 17 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.14%) Security Posture
6 8 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.19%) PKI
9 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.71%) Replication
12 1 (0.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.24%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.60%) Windows
2 27 (6.41%) Linux
3 15 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.95%) Unix
4 4 (0.95%) VMS
5 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (40.62%) CI/CD
2 164 (38.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 158 (37.53%) DevOps
4 86 (20.43%) Cloud Security
5 73 (17.34%) Agile
6 58 (13.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 57 (13.54%) Migration
8 54 (12.83%) Containerisation
8 54 (12.83%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (9.98%) DevSecOps
10 40 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (9.03%) AI
11 38 (9.03%) Observability
12 36 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (8.08%) Infrastructure Automation
13 34 (8.08%) Software Engineering
14 32 (7.60%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (6.89%) Microservices
16 28 (6.65%) Mentoring
17 24 (5.70%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 89 (21.14%) Python
2 69 (16.39%) PowerShell
3 43 (10.21%) SQL
4 28 (6.65%) Bash
5 27 (6.41%) Bicep
6 25 (5.94%) Java
7 17 (4.04%) C#
8 13 (3.09%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.90%) Go
10 7 (1.66%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.95%) BeanShell
11 4 (0.95%) Groovy
11 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.48%) Ruby
13 1 (0.24%) C
13 1 (0.24%) Cypher
13 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 127 (30.17%) Security Cleared
2 108 (25.65%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.98%) Azure Certification
4 20 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.28%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.80%) Degree
7 14 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.85%) CISSP
9 10 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.66%) CISM
13 6 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.95%) CCSP
16 3 (0.71%) CCNP
16 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.71%) OSCP
16 3 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.61%) NCSC
2 10 (2.38%) GDPR
2 10 (2.38%) NIST
3 9 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.14%) QA
4 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.19%) GRC
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
6 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (13.54%) Docker
2 21 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (2.85%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.66%) vSphere
7 6 (1.43%) Firmware
8 4 (0.95%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.24%) Squid
Systems Management
1 194 (46.08%) Terraform
2 103 (24.47%) Kubernetes
3 22 (5.23%) Ansible
3 22 (5.23%) Prometheus
4 17 (4.04%) Grafana
4 17 (4.04%) Istio
5 13 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.90%) Argo
8 7 (1.66%) Packer
8 7 (1.66%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.95%) Puppet
9 4 (0.95%) Salt
10 2 (0.48%) Cilium
10 2 (0.48%) Consul
11 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.24%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 81 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 77 (18.29%) Google
3 16 (3.80%) Oracle
4 13 (3.09%) VMware
5 11 (2.61%) Cisco
6 9 (2.14%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.14%) Splunk
7 8 (1.90%) Databricks
8 7 (1.66%) Juniper
8 7 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.43%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.19%) Broadcom
10 5 (1.19%) Citrix
10 5 (1.19%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
10 5 (1.19%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.19%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.95%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud