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 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 294 323
Rank change year-on-year +87 +29 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 578 223 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 0.81% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 0.89% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 173 156
10th Percentile £400 £402 £381
25th Percentile £463 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £625
90th Percentile £690 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 1
10th Percentile £23.20 £33.75 -
25th Percentile £71.69 £39.38 £27.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £53.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.26% +79.17% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £74.38 £32.50
90th Percentile - £95.75 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £53.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +43.26% +79.17% -

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 41,600 25,116 32,526
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 91.78% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,351 16,327 21,449
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,993 1,255 2,125
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.71 £13.64
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £45.56 £26.50 £42.91
Median % change year-on-year +71.91% -38.24% -2.72%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.35 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.55 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +73.17% -38.57% -6.42%

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 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +49 298 £525 - 224
South East -3 94 £538 +2.38% 48
North of England -8 89 £525 +16.67% 84
Midlands -15 51 £525 +10.53% 31
North West -14 49 £531 +25.00% 53
Yorkshire -17 33 £475 -2.56% 25
West Midlands -38 28 £525 +5.00% 19
East Midlands +2 22 £450 -5.26% 12
East of England 0 22 £505 +26.25% 14
South West -33 16 £550 -2.22% 29
North East -35 7 £525 +7.69% 6
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 July 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.

1 297 (51.38%) Azure
2 253 (43.77%) Terraform
3 233 (40.31%) AWS
4 212 (36.68%) CI/CD
5 206 (35.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 181 (31.31%) DevOps
7 158 (27.34%) Security Cleared
8 138 (23.88%) Python
9 136 (23.53%) Cloud Security
10 129 (22.32%) PowerShell
11 125 (21.63%) Kubernetes
12 124 (21.45%) GCP
13 122 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 122 (21.11%) SC Cleared
14 121 (20.93%) Microsoft
15 96 (16.61%) Platform Engineering
16 95 (16.44%) Windows
17 83 (14.36%) Google
18 81 (14.01%) Migration
19 78 (13.49%) Agile
20 69 (11.94%) AI
20 69 (11.94%) Firewall
21 68 (11.76%) DNS
21 68 (11.76%) GitHub
22 66 (11.42%) Bash
23 62 (10.73%) Containerisation
23 62 (10.73%) Docker
24 60 (10.38%) Linux
25 57 (9.86%) Active Directory
25 57 (9.86%) Entra ID

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 13 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.21%) Apache
2 7 (1.21%) Confluence
3 5 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.69%) nginx
5 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.52%) IIS
5 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.35%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 297 (51.38%) Azure
2 233 (40.31%) AWS
3 124 (21.45%) GCP
4 68 (11.76%) GitHub
5 57 (9.86%) Entra ID
5 57 (9.86%) Serverless
6 46 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (7.09%) Azure AKS
7 41 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (6.75%) IaaS
9 37 (6.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 34 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (5.71%) PaaS
12 32 (5.54%) Amazon S3
12 32 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (4.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (11.94%) Firewall
2 68 (11.76%) DNS
3 33 (5.71%) VPN
4 27 (4.67%) Network Security
5 15 (2.60%) DHCP
5 15 (2.60%) WAN
6 13 (2.25%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.38%) Internet
8 6 (1.04%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.04%) VLAN
9 5 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.87%) SSL
10 4 (0.69%) BGP
10 4 (0.69%) LAN
10 4 (0.69%) SAN
11 3 (0.52%) IPv4
11 3 (0.52%) OSPF
11 3 (0.52%) SMTP
11 3 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.73%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.21%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.69%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.52%) Big Data
9 3 (0.52%) MySQL
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.35%) Flink
10 2 (0.35%) Looker
10 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.17%) Metadata
11 1 (0.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (6.92%) GitLab
2 36 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.84%) Git
4 12 (2.08%) JIRA
5 8 (1.38%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.52%) Selenium
6 3 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.35%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.35%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.17%) Postman
8 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 71 (12.28%) Finance
2 61 (10.55%) Social Skills
3 52 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 22 (3.81%) Banking
5 18 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.04%) Investment Banking
8 5 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.87%) Law
9 4 (0.69%) Legal
9 4 (0.69%) Local Government
9 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.52%) Military
10 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.35%) Front Office
11 2 (0.35%) International Banking
11 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.35%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.98%) REST
2 12 (2.08%) OAuth
2 12 (2.08%) OAuth2
3 10 (1.73%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.56%) Spring
4 9 (1.56%) Spring Boot
5 8 (1.38%) Node.js
5 8 (1.38%) React
6 7 (1.21%) OpenID
7 6 (1.04%) FastAPI
7 6 (1.04%) Flask
7 6 (1.04%) Kafka
7 6 (1.04%) YAML
8 5 (0.87%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (0.87%) Playwright
9 4 (0.69%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.69%) Hugging Face
9 4 (0.69%) Jest
9 4 (0.69%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 106 (18.34%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.57%) Security Posture
3 32 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.98%) Public Cloud
5 21 (3.63%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.77%) Cloud Security Posture
8 14 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.25%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.21%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.04%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
15 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
16 3 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
16 3 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 95 (16.44%) Windows
2 60 (10.38%) Linux
3 49 (8.48%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.52%) CentOS
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (36.68%) CI/CD
2 206 (35.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 181 (31.31%) DevOps
4 136 (23.53%) Cloud Security
5 122 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 96 (16.61%) Platform Engineering
7 81 (14.01%) Migration
8 78 (13.49%) Agile
9 69 (11.94%) AI
10 62 (10.73%) Containerisation
11 56 (9.69%) Observability
12 48 (8.30%) Software Engineering
13 47 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
14 45 (7.79%) Infrastructure Automation
15 40 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (6.75%) DevSecOps
17 37 (6.40%) Change Management
18 34 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
18 34 (5.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 138 (23.88%) Python
2 129 (22.32%) PowerShell
3 66 (11.42%) Bash
4 57 (9.86%) SQL
5 54 (9.34%) Bicep
6 30 (5.19%) Java
7 16 (2.77%) C#
8 10 (1.73%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.56%) Go
9 9 (1.56%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.87%) Groovy
11 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.35%) Ruby
12 2 (0.35%) Scala
13 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.17%) C
13 1 (0.17%) Cypher
13 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 158 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 122 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 51 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 46 (7.96%) Azure Certification
5 40 (6.92%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.81%) Degree
7 13 (2.25%) CISSP
7 13 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.04%) CCNP
10 6 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.69%) CCIE
11 4 (0.69%) CISM
11 4 (0.69%) MCSE
12 3 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.35%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (1.73%) QA
2 9 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.38%) NIST
4 7 (1.21%) NCSC
5 3 (0.52%) GDPR
6 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.17%) GRC
7 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (10.73%) Docker
2 57 (9.86%) Active Directory
3 32 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (4.15%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (3.46%) VMware NSX
6 16 (2.77%) vSphere
7 14 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (2.08%) vCloud
9 11 (1.90%) Hyper-V
10 7 (1.21%) Squid
11 4 (0.69%) Firmware
12 3 (0.52%) Ceph
12 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.52%) NFS
12 3 (0.52%) Postfix
13 2 (0.35%) KVM
13 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 253 (43.77%) Terraform
2 125 (21.63%) Kubernetes
3 44 (7.61%) Ansible
4 20 (3.46%) vCenter Server
5 19 (3.29%) Grafana
5 19 (3.29%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.11%) Progress Chef
6 18 (3.11%) SCOM
7 17 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (2.42%) Puppet
9 11 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.56%) Istio
11 8 (1.38%) Packer
12 4 (0.69%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.69%) Suricata
12 4 (0.69%) VxRail
13 3 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.52%) Salt
13 3 (0.52%) vRealize
14 2 (0.35%) SELinux
Vendors
1 121 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 83 (14.36%) Google
3 52 (9.00%) VMware
4 23 (3.98%) Oracle
5 17 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.60%) Zscaler
7 12 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.90%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.56%) Cisco
9 9 (1.56%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.56%) Splunk
10 7 (1.21%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (1.21%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.04%) Databricks
11 6 (1.04%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.69%) Citrix
12 4 (0.69%) Juniper
422 Cloud Engineer jobs in England