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 5 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 289 287
Rank change year-on-year +37 -2 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 396 193 269
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.79% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 0.85% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 150 192
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £616 £625 £621
90th Percentile £711 £676 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -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 35,775 22,632 34,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.88% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,532 15,157 23,256
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 840 2,307
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.36%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.55 £76.25 £71.45
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%

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 5 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 5 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 +34 222 £525 - 47
North of England -32 65 £513 +7.89% 33
South East -29 38 £522 -7.20% 29
Yorkshire -22 37 £506 +55.77% 13
Midlands -46 36 £575 +21.05% 8
West Midlands -35 30 £623 +5.96% 5
North West -29 28 £513 +13.89% 17
South West -9 21 £544 -5.43% 15
East of England -22 15 £505 +2.54% 5
East Midlands -34 6 £575 +21.05% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 193 (48.74%) Terraform
2 173 (43.69%) AWS
2 173 (43.69%) Azure
3 172 (43.43%) CI/CD
4 166 (41.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 164 (41.41%) DevOps
6 112 (28.28%) Security Cleared
7 106 (26.77%) Kubernetes
8 104 (26.26%) GCP
9 98 (24.75%) Python
10 86 (21.72%) GitHub
10 86 (21.72%) SC Cleared
11 81 (20.45%) Agile
11 81 (20.45%) Cloud Security
11 81 (20.45%) Google
12 78 (19.70%) Microsoft
13 63 (15.91%) Containerisation
13 63 (15.91%) Docker
13 63 (15.91%) PowerShell
14 55 (13.89%) Migration
15 54 (13.64%) Serverless
16 51 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
17 50 (12.63%) GitHub Actions
17 50 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 50 (12.63%) Jenkins
18 42 (10.61%) Azure Certification
19 40 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
19 40 (10.10%) Firewall
19 40 (10.10%) GitLab
20 39 (9.85%) DevSecOps

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
2 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.01%) Confluence
3 3 (0.76%) nginx
4 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
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
1 173 (43.69%) AWS
1 173 (43.69%) Azure
2 104 (26.26%) GCP
3 86 (21.72%) GitHub
4 54 (13.64%) Serverless
5 50 (12.63%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (9.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 35 (8.84%) Entra ID
8 34 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (8.59%) PaaS
9 32 (8.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 30 (7.58%) IaaS
11 28 (7.07%) Amazon S3
11 28 (7.07%) Azure AKS
12 23 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (4.55%) SaaS
15 18 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (4.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (10.10%) Firewall
2 18 (4.55%) Network Security
3 15 (3.79%) VPN
4 14 (3.54%) DNS
5 9 (2.27%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (2.02%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (2.02%) Junos
7 5 (1.26%) NX-OS
8 4 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.51%) BGP
9 2 (0.51%) DKIM
9 2 (0.51%) SMTP
9 2 (0.51%) VLAN
10 1 (0.25%) DHCP
10 1 (0.25%) HTTP
10 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.25%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.29%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.53%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.52%) Power BI
6 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
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%) Amazon QuickSight
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 50 (12.63%) Jenkins
2 40 (10.10%) GitLab
3 30 (7.58%) Git
4 6 (1.52%) JIRA
4 6 (1.52%) Liquibase
5 3 (0.76%) Postman
5 3 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.51%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.51%) Selenium
6 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.25%) JUnit
7 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.25%) sqlmap
General
1 62 (15.66%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.40%) Finance
3 33 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.82%) Banking
5 16 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.77%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.77%) Retail
8 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.01%) Legal
10 3 (0.76%) Marketing
11 2 (0.51%) Local Government
11 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.25%) Military
12 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.60%) REST
2 23 (5.81%) Node.js
3 16 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (4.04%) RESTful
4 12 (3.03%) Kafka
5 11 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (2.53%) React
7 9 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (2.27%) Spring
8 8 (2.02%) .NET
8 8 (2.02%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.02%) SOAP
8 8 (2.02%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.77%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.77%) NestJS
9 7 (1.77%) OAuth
9 7 (1.77%) OpenAPI
9 7 (1.77%) OpenID
9 7 (1.77%) Playwright
10 6 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (18.43%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.86%) Public Cloud
3 17 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.02%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.77%) PKI
8 7 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.76%) Replication
13 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.51%) Life Science
13 2 (0.51%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.34%) Linux
2 24 (6.06%) Windows
3 10 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.26%) Unix
5 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.01%) VMS
6 1 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (43.43%) CI/CD
2 166 (41.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 164 (41.41%) DevOps
4 81 (20.45%) Agile
4 81 (20.45%) Cloud Security
5 63 (15.91%) Containerisation
6 55 (13.89%) Migration
7 51 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
8 50 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 40 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (9.85%) DevSecOps
10 39 (9.85%) Infrastructure Automation
10 39 (9.85%) Microservices
11 36 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
12 35 (8.84%) Observability
13 34 (8.59%) Software Engineering
14 32 (8.08%) AI
14 32 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (6.31%) Mentoring
16 24 (6.06%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 98 (24.75%) Python
2 63 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 39 (9.85%) SQL
4 26 (6.57%) Bash
4 26 (6.57%) Java
5 25 (6.31%) Bicep
6 19 (4.80%) Go
7 15 (3.79%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.03%) C#
9 6 (1.52%) 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
1 112 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 86 (21.72%) SC Cleared
3 42 (10.61%) Azure Certification
4 28 (7.07%) Degree
5 24 (6.06%) DV Cleared
6 20 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (4.55%) AWS Certification
8 14 (3.54%) Master's Degree
9 13 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (3.03%) CISSP
11 10 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.77%) CISM
14 6 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.26%) CCSP
15 5 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.76%) CCNP
16 3 (0.76%) OSCP
16 3 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.03%) NCSC
2 11 (2.78%) GDPR
3 10 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.27%) NIST
5 7 (1.77%) QA
6 6 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.26%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.26%) GRC
8 2 (0.51%) SLA
8 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (15.91%) Docker
2 20 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.52%) Firmware
6 4 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.76%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 193 (48.74%) Terraform
2 106 (26.77%) Kubernetes
3 32 (8.08%) Ansible
4 27 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 24 (6.06%) Grafana
6 19 (4.80%) Istio
7 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.27%) vCenter Server
10 8 (2.02%) Argo
11 5 (1.26%) Packer
12 4 (1.01%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.51%) Consul
13 2 (0.51%) Podman
13 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.51%) Puppet
13 2 (0.51%) Salt
14 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.25%) PaperCut
14 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 81 (20.45%) Google
2 78 (19.70%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.80%) Splunk
4 16 (4.04%) Oracle
5 13 (3.28%) Cisco
6 10 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.27%) Juniper
8 8 (2.02%) Databricks
8 8 (2.02%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.77%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.77%) Ping Identity
10 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.52%) VMware
11 5 (1.26%) Broadcom
11 5 (1.26%) Citrix
11 5 (1.26%) PeopleSoft
11 5 (1.26%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.01%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.01%) Zscaler
126 Cloud Engineer jobs in England