Cloud Engineer Contracts 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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 312 264
Rank change year-on-year +8 -48 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 185 240 501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.65% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.70% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 168 364
10th Percentile £400 £400 £412
25th Percentile £425 £473 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £652
90th Percentile £675 £691 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £45.50
25th Percentile - £27.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year - -68.42% +20.63%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £103.13
90th Percentile - - £103.50
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year - -58.90% +61.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +17 112 £525 -8.70% 110
South East +47 21 £563 +6.13% 82
North of England +14 21 £450 -14.29% 84
Midlands +23 16 £475 -9.09% 37
North West +12 12 £450 -11.76% 47
East Midlands +13 8 £475 +33.43% 10
West Midlands +12 8 £588 -9.62% 26
North East - 7 £600 - 11
East of England +35 6 £493 +3.68% 24
South West +25 5 £575 +15.00% 33
Yorkshire 0 1 £425 -29.17% 27
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 96 (51.89%) Azure
2 87 (47.03%) Terraform
3 86 (46.49%) AWS
4 75 (40.54%) DevOps
5 73 (39.46%) CI/CD
6 68 (36.76%) Python
7 62 (33.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (28.65%) Kubernetes
9 47 (25.41%) Cloud Security
10 39 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (20.54%) Social Skills
12 36 (19.46%) Finance
13 35 (18.92%) Docker
14 34 (18.38%) Microsoft
15 33 (17.84%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (16.76%) Linux
16 31 (16.76%) GitHub
17 29 (15.68%) GCP
18 27 (14.59%) Containerisation
19 26 (14.05%) Jenkins
19 26 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
19 26 (14.05%) PowerShell
20 25 (13.51%) Firewall
20 25 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
21 23 (12.43%) Migration
22 22 (11.89%) SQL
22 22 (11.89%) IaaS
23 21 (11.35%) Windows
23 21 (11.35%) GitLab
24 20 (10.81%) Ansible

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.70%) nginx
3 5 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.62%) Apache
5 3 (1.62%) JBoss
5 3 (1.62%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.54%) IIS
6 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) 1Password
2 1 (0.54%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 96 (51.89%) Azure
2 86 (46.49%) AWS
3 33 (17.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (16.76%) GitHub
5 29 (15.68%) GCP
6 26 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (11.89%) IaaS
8 20 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (10.27%) PaaS
10 18 (9.73%) Serverless
11 16 (8.65%) Entra ID
12 14 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (5.95%) Snowflake
15 10 (5.41%) SaaS
16 9 (4.86%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (4.86%) Power Platform
17 8 (4.32%) Amazon S3
18 7 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 7 (3.78%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.51%) Firewall
2 14 (7.57%) VPN
3 11 (5.95%) DNS
4 9 (4.86%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.32%) Network Security
6 6 (3.24%) WAN
7 5 (2.70%) HTTP
7 5 (2.70%) MPLS
7 5 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.62%) VSAN
8 3 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.08%) BGP
9 2 (1.08%) OSPF
10 1 (0.54%) Internet
10 1 (0.54%) IPv6
10 1 (0.54%) LAN
10 1 (0.54%) SAN
10 1 (0.54%) SMS
10 1 (0.54%) TACACS
10 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (4.86%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.32%) Power BI
4 6 (3.24%) Apache Hive
4 6 (3.24%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.24%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.70%) Parquet
5 5 (2.70%) Presto
5 5 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.62%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.08%) Looker
Development Applications
1 26 (14.05%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.35%) GitLab
3 11 (5.95%) Git
4 5 (2.70%) JIRA
4 5 (2.70%) Poetry
5 4 (2.16%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.62%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (1.62%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.54%) Locust
8 1 (0.54%) MLflow
8 1 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 38 (20.54%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.46%) Finance
3 17 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.41%) Banking
6 6 (3.24%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.70%) Law
7 5 (2.70%) Retail
8 4 (2.16%) Marketing
8 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.62%) Local Government
10 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Aviation
11 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (3.78%) React
2 6 (3.24%) AngularJS
2 6 (3.24%) Node.js
3 5 (2.70%) CSS
3 5 (2.70%) Dask
3 5 (2.70%) HTML
3 5 (2.70%) Kafka
3 5 (2.70%) LAPP Stack
4 4 (2.16%) Angular 2
4 4 (2.16%) AWS CDK
4 4 (2.16%) HTML5
4 4 (2.16%) YAML
5 3 (1.62%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.62%) NumPy
5 3 (1.62%) Pandas
5 3 (1.62%) PySpark
5 3 (1.62%) RESTful
5 3 (1.62%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.65%) Public Cloud
2 13 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.86%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.78%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.16%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.62%) BYOD
8 3 (1.62%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.08%) Clustering
9 2 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.08%) Replication
10 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.54%) Life Science
10 1 (0.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.76%) Linux
2 21 (11.35%) Windows
3 13 (7.03%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.08%) CentOS
5 2 (1.08%) VMS
5 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (40.54%) DevOps
2 73 (39.46%) CI/CD
3 62 (33.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (25.41%) Cloud Security
5 39 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.59%) Containerisation
7 25 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
8 23 (12.43%) Migration
9 19 (10.27%) Agile
10 15 (8.11%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (7.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (7.57%) High Availability
11 14 (7.57%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (7.03%) Data Science
12 13 (7.03%) Microservices
12 13 (7.03%) RBAC
13 12 (6.49%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (6.49%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (6.49%) DevSecOps
14 11 (5.95%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (36.76%) Python
2 26 (14.05%) PowerShell
3 22 (11.89%) SQL
4 15 (8.11%) Bash
5 12 (6.49%) Java
6 10 (5.41%) Bicep
7 9 (4.86%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.78%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.62%) Perl
10 2 (1.08%) C#
10 2 (1.08%) Ruby
10 2 (1.08%) Scala
10 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.54%) C
11 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.54%) Go
11 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.54%) PHP
11 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.65%) Azure Certification
2 16 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.03%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.95%) Degree
5 7 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.16%) CCIE
7 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.54%) CCNP
10 1 (0.54%) CCSP
10 1 (0.54%) CISSP
10 1 (0.54%) OCP
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.54%) OSCP
10 1 (0.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.70%) GDPR
2 5 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.62%) NIST
4 2 (1.08%) NCSC
4 2 (1.08%) QA
5 1 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) GxP
5 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (18.92%) Docker
2 13 (7.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.78%) vSphere
5 3 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.08%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.54%) Ceph
7 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 87 (47.03%) Terraform
2 53 (28.65%) Kubernetes
3 20 (10.81%) Ansible
4 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.16%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.16%) Puppet
5 4 (2.16%) SCCM
5 4 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.62%) Argo
6 3 (1.62%) Kibana
6 3 (1.62%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.08%) Grafana
7 2 (1.08%) WSUS
8 1 (0.54%) CASB
8 1 (0.54%) Cilium
8 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.65%) Google
3 9 (4.86%) Cisco
3 9 (4.86%) VMware
4 8 (4.32%) Citrix
4 8 (4.32%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.78%) CheckPoint
5 7 (3.78%) Fortinet
6 6 (3.24%) Zscaler
7 5 (2.70%) Splunk
8 4 (2.16%) Databricks
8 4 (2.16%) F5
8 4 (2.16%) Oracle
8 4 (2.16%) SAP
8 4 (2.16%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.62%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.62%) Netskope
9 3 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.08%) Ericsson
10 2 (1.08%) Nokia