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 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 295 309
Rank change year-on-year +75 +14 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 478 192 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 0.80% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.86% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 155 164
10th Percentile £413 £402 £400
25th Percentile £463 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £625
90th Percentile £690 £636 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £67.05 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £47.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £82.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +68.89% +50.00% -41.18%

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 38,745 22,260 34,144
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.43% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,913 14,671 22,450
10th Percentile £325 £289 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,729 951 2,581
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.27 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.64% -22.46% -16.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.02
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.04% -25.33% -16.67%

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 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +61 284 £525 +5.00% 121
North of England -39 62 £505 +1.00% 42
South East -36 55 £538 +7.50% 55
North West -14 34 £505 +22.13% 36
Midlands -40 24 £525 +5.00% 20
East of England -12 22 £505 +2.54% 10
Yorkshire -33 21 £481 -3.75% 4
West Midlands -41 20 £525 - 14
South West -18 17 £550 -2.22% 38
North East -29 7 £525 -4.55% 2
East Midlands -27 4 £425 -10.53% 6
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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.

1 232 (48.54%) Azure
2 225 (47.07%) Terraform
3 204 (42.68%) AWS
4 199 (41.63%) CI/CD
5 179 (37.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 172 (35.98%) DevOps
7 129 (26.99%) Security Cleared
8 109 (22.80%) Kubernetes
9 106 (22.18%) Python
10 104 (21.76%) Cloud Security
11 103 (21.55%) GCP
12 100 (20.92%) SC Cleared
13 93 (19.46%) Microsoft
14 84 (17.57%) PowerShell
15 83 (17.36%) GitHub
16 79 (16.53%) Google
17 74 (15.48%) Migration
18 73 (15.27%) Platform Engineering
19 71 (14.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 64 (13.39%) Agile
21 58 (12.13%) Firewall
22 57 (11.92%) Containerisation
22 57 (11.92%) Docker
22 57 (11.92%) Windows
23 55 (11.51%) GitHub Actions
24 53 (11.09%) AI
25 50 (10.46%) Serverless
26 49 (10.25%) Bash
27 46 (9.62%) SQL
28 44 (9.21%) Azure Certification

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 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.26%) Apache
3 5 (1.05%) Confluence
3 5 (1.05%) nginx
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.63%) IIS
4 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.63%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.42%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 232 (48.54%) Azure
2 204 (42.68%) AWS
3 103 (21.55%) GCP
4 83 (17.36%) GitHub
5 55 (11.51%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (10.46%) Serverless
7 40 (8.37%) Entra ID
8 39 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (8.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 37 (7.74%) IaaS
9 37 (7.74%) PaaS
10 36 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 33 (6.90%) Amazon S3
12 32 (6.69%) Azure AKS
13 29 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (6.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (4.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 58 (12.13%) Firewall
2 41 (8.58%) DNS
3 24 (5.02%) Network Security
4 22 (4.60%) VPN
5 8 (1.67%) WAN
6 7 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.26%) DHCP
7 6 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.05%) SSL
9 4 (0.84%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.84%) VLAN
10 3 (0.63%) Internet
10 3 (0.63%) SMTP
11 2 (0.42%) BGP
11 2 (0.42%) BIG-IP
11 2 (0.42%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.42%) NGFW
11 2 (0.42%) SAN
11 2 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.51%) BigQuery
2 11 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.63%) Big Data
8 3 (0.63%) MySQL
8 3 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (8.37%) GitLab
2 36 (7.53%) Git
2 36 (7.53%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.88%) Artifactory
4 8 (1.67%) JIRA
5 3 (0.63%) Selenium
5 3 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.42%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.42%) Postman
6 2 (0.42%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.21%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.21%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 54 (11.30%) Social Skills
2 49 (10.25%) Finance
3 35 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 18 (3.77%) Banking
5 17 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.67%) Retail
8 6 (1.26%) Legal
8 6 (1.26%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.84%) Local Government
10 4 (0.84%) Marketing
10 4 (0.84%) Military
10 4 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.42%) International Banking
11 2 (0.42%) Law
11 2 (0.42%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.35%) REST
2 14 (2.93%) Spring
2 14 (2.93%) Spring Boot
3 13 (2.72%) Node.js
4 12 (2.51%) React
5 11 (2.30%) OAuth
5 11 (2.30%) OAuth2
6 10 (2.09%) Kafka
7 8 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (1.46%) .NET
8 7 (1.46%) OpenID
9 6 (1.26%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.26%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.26%) LangChain
9 6 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.05%) Playwright
10 5 (1.05%) YAML
11 4 (0.84%) Express.js
11 4 (0.84%) Jest
11 4 (0.84%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 89 (18.62%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (5.65%) Public Cloud
3 20 (4.18%) Security Posture
4 19 (3.97%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
7 8 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.05%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.63%) PKI
13 2 (0.42%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 57 (11.92%) Windows
2 37 (7.74%) Linux
3 34 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.63%) CentOS
6 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.42%) VMS
7 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (41.63%) CI/CD
2 179 (37.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 172 (35.98%) DevOps
4 104 (21.76%) Cloud Security
5 74 (15.48%) Migration
6 73 (15.27%) Platform Engineering
7 71 (14.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 64 (13.39%) Agile
9 57 (11.92%) Containerisation
10 53 (11.09%) AI
11 44 (9.21%) Observability
12 42 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (8.79%) Software Engineering
13 40 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
14 38 (7.95%) DevSecOps
15 37 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (7.74%) Infrastructure Automation
16 35 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (5.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 25 (5.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 106 (22.18%) Python
2 84 (17.57%) PowerShell
3 49 (10.25%) Bash
4 46 (9.62%) SQL
5 35 (7.32%) Bicep
6 28 (5.86%) Java
7 14 (2.93%) C#
8 9 (1.88%) Go
8 9 (1.88%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.46%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.05%) Groovy
11 3 (0.63%) Ruby
12 1 (0.21%) Cypher
12 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.21%) Perl
12 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (26.99%) Security Cleared
2 100 (20.92%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.21%) Azure Certification
4 30 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.39%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.97%) Degree
7 12 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.30%) CISSP
9 10 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.63%) CCNP
13 3 (0.63%) CCSP
13 3 (0.63%) CISM
14 2 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
14 2 (0.42%) MCSE
14 2 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.30%) NIST
2 10 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.09%) QA
3 9 (1.88%) GDPR
3 9 (1.88%) NCSC
4 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.42%) GRC
6 2 (0.42%) SLA
6 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (11.92%) Docker
2 34 (7.11%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.35%) VMware NSX
4 15 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (2.51%) vSphere
6 9 (1.88%) vCloud
7 8 (1.67%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.46%) Squid
9 3 (0.63%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.63%) Firmware
9 3 (0.63%) Postfix
10 2 (0.42%) Ceph
10 2 (0.42%) KVM
10 2 (0.42%) NFS
Systems Management
1 225 (47.07%) Terraform
2 109 (22.80%) Kubernetes
3 31 (6.49%) Ansible
4 18 (3.77%) Grafana
5 16 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.93%) Istio
6 14 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.72%) vCenter Server
8 11 (2.30%) SCOM
9 9 (1.88%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.46%) Argo
10 7 (1.46%) Packer
11 6 (1.26%) Puppet
12 4 (0.84%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.84%) Salt
12 4 (0.84%) Suricata
13 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.42%) Cilium
14 2 (0.42%) SELinux
Vendors
1 93 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 79 (16.53%) Google
3 31 (6.49%) VMware
4 22 (4.60%) Oracle
5 14 (2.93%) Palo Alto
6 13 (2.72%) Zscaler
7 12 (2.51%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.67%) Cisco
9 7 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.26%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.26%) Splunk
11 5 (1.05%) Citrix
11 5 (1.05%) Databricks
11 5 (1.05%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.05%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (0.84%) Juniper
12 4 (0.84%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
276 Cloud Engineer jobs in England