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 21 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
21 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 295 275
Rank change year-on-year +37 -20 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 364 193 316
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 0.75% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.80% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 132 232
10th Percentile £402 £380 £413
25th Percentile £463 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £524 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.77% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £56.13 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £78.75 - £30.00
75th Percentile £95.94 - £46.94
90th Percentile £104.38 - £72.93
UK median hourly rate £38.88 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.03%

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 32,094 24,035 35,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 92.97% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,339 15,179 23,643
10th Percentile £305 £297 £270
25th Percentile £410 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,052 719 2,161
10th Percentile £15.01 £16.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.50 £16.67
Median hourly rate £33.17 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £31.49 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.38% -2.86% -10.26%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +18 187 £525 -4.55% 36
North of England -9 70 £500 +11.11% 25
Yorkshire -23 43 £513 +24.24% 9
South East -4 41 £500 -16.67% 25
Midlands -31 40 £575 +21.05% 10
West Midlands -28 35 £670 +14.04% 8
North West -13 27 £500 +11.11% 14
South West -9 19 £544 -5.43% 18
East of England -19 10 £438 +37.58% 8
East Midlands -27 5 £575 +26.51% 2
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 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.

1 168 (46.15%) AWS
2 167 (45.88%) Terraform
3 162 (44.51%) CI/CD
4 156 (42.86%) DevOps
5 150 (41.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 148 (40.66%) Azure
7 108 (29.67%) Security Cleared
8 106 (29.12%) Python
9 102 (28.02%) Kubernetes
10 85 (23.35%) GCP
11 81 (22.25%) GitHub
12 73 (20.05%) Agile
13 72 (19.78%) SC Cleared
14 69 (18.96%) Containerisation
14 69 (18.96%) Docker
15 68 (18.68%) Microsoft
16 66 (18.13%) Cloud Security
17 61 (16.76%) Google
18 55 (15.11%) Serverless
19 53 (14.56%) Jenkins
20 49 (13.46%) Migration
21 48 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
21 48 (13.19%) PowerShell
22 45 (12.36%) GitLab
23 44 (12.09%) Infrastructure Automation
24 43 (11.81%) Microservices
24 43 (11.81%) REST
25 42 (11.54%) Linux
26 41 (11.26%) Azure Certification
27 38 (10.44%) Cybersecurity

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 4 (1.10%) Apache
1 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.82%) Confluence
2 3 (0.82%) nginx
3 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.27%) CMS
4 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (46.15%) AWS
2 148 (40.66%) Azure
3 85 (23.35%) GCP
4 81 (22.25%) GitHub
5 55 (15.11%) Serverless
6 48 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (10.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 37 (10.16%) Entra ID
8 32 (8.79%) PaaS
9 30 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 27 (7.42%) Amazon S3
12 26 (7.14%) IaaS
13 24 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (5.49%) Azure AKS
17 16 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (4.40%) OCI
18 13 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.97%) Firewall
2 19 (5.22%) Network Security
3 17 (4.67%) Cisco Firepower
3 17 (4.67%) Cisco IOS
3 17 (4.67%) Cisco ISE
3 17 (4.67%) Junos
4 13 (3.57%) VPN
5 9 (2.47%) DNS
6 5 (1.37%) NX-OS
7 4 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.55%) LAN
9 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.55%) VLAN
10 1 (0.27%) BGP
10 1 (0.27%) DHCP
10 1 (0.27%) HTTP
10 1 (0.27%) SSL
10 1 (0.27%) WAN
10 1 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 21 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.75%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.20%) Power BI
5 7 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.55%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.55%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.55%) OLAP
9 2 (0.55%) OLTP
9 2 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.27%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (14.56%) Jenkins
2 45 (12.36%) GitLab
3 28 (7.69%) Git
4 10 (2.75%) Liquibase
5 9 (2.47%) JIRA
6 3 (0.82%) Postman
6 3 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.55%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (16.76%) Finance
1 61 (16.76%) Social Skills
2 31 (8.52%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.97%) Banking
4 24 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.02%) Financial Institution
6 7 (1.92%) Aeronautics
6 7 (1.92%) Retail
7 6 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.65%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.37%) Aviation
8 5 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.10%) Legal
9 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.82%) Local Government
11 2 (0.55%) Billing
11 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.81%) REST
2 23 (6.32%) Node.js
3 19 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (5.22%) RESTful
4 13 (3.57%) Kafka
5 11 (3.02%) React
6 10 (2.75%) OpenID
6 10 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (2.47%) ARM Templates
7 9 (2.47%) OpenAPI
7 9 (2.47%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (2.20%) SAML
8 8 (2.20%) SOAP
8 8 (2.20%) Spring
9 7 (1.92%) .NET
9 7 (1.92%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.92%) Lambda Expressions
9 7 (1.92%) LangChain
9 7 (1.92%) NestJS
9 7 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (18.68%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.99%) Public Cloud
3 21 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.20%) PKI
6 8 (2.20%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.82%) Genomics
10 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.82%) Life Science
10 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.82%) Replication
10 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.54%) Linux
2 21 (5.77%) Windows
3 14 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.20%) Unix
5 4 (1.10%) VMS
6 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (44.51%) CI/CD
2 156 (42.86%) DevOps
3 150 (41.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (20.05%) Agile
5 69 (18.96%) Containerisation
6 66 (18.13%) Cloud Security
7 49 (13.46%) Migration
8 44 (12.09%) Infrastructure Automation
9 43 (11.81%) Microservices
10 38 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
12 35 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (9.34%) DevSecOps
14 33 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (8.79%) Observability
16 31 (8.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 31 (8.52%) Software Engineering
17 30 (8.24%) AI
18 28 (7.69%) High Availability
19 26 (7.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 106 (29.12%) Python
2 48 (13.19%) PowerShell
3 36 (9.89%) SQL
4 27 (7.42%) Java
5 20 (5.49%) Bash
5 20 (5.49%) Bicep
5 20 (5.49%) Go
6 14 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.47%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.20%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.65%) C#
10 4 (1.10%) BeanShell
10 4 (1.10%) Ruby
11 2 (0.55%) Groovy
11 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.55%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) C
12 1 (0.27%) Cypher
12 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 72 (19.78%) SC Cleared
3 41 (11.26%) Azure Certification
4 32 (8.79%) DV Cleared
5 30 (8.24%) Degree
6 24 (6.59%) AWS Certification
7 21 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.67%) Master's Degree
9 13 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (3.02%) CISSP
11 9 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.92%) CISM
14 6 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 5 (1.37%) CCSP
15 5 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.30%) GDPR
2 10 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.75%) NIST
3 9 (2.47%) NCSC
4 6 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.65%) QA
5 5 (1.37%) GRC
6 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (18.96%) Docker
2 26 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.67%) VMware NSX
4 11 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.37%) Firmware
7 4 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.27%) KVM
10 1 (0.27%) Squid
10 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 167 (45.88%) Terraform
2 102 (28.02%) Kubernetes
3 37 (10.16%) Ansible
4 28 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 26 (7.14%) Grafana
6 17 (4.67%) Istio
6 17 (4.67%) vCenter Server
7 9 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.20%) Argo
9 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.82%) Podman
10 3 (0.82%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.55%) Consul
11 2 (0.55%) Packer
11 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.27%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.27%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.27%) Salt
12 1 (0.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 68 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 61 (16.76%) Google
3 22 (6.04%) Splunk
4 18 (4.95%) Cisco
4 18 (4.95%) Juniper
4 18 (4.95%) Oracle
5 17 (4.67%) SolarWinds
6 11 (3.02%) Databricks
7 10 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.92%) Ping Identity
9 5 (1.37%) Broadcom
9 5 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.37%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.37%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.37%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.10%) Citrix
10 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.82%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.82%) VMware
108 Cloud Engineer jobs in England