Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 312 254
Rank change year-on-year +34 -58 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 292 204 356
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.70% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.76% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 123 269
10th Percentile £400 £384 £425
25th Percentile £450 £438 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £701 £710 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £29.00 - -
25th Percentile £29.50 - £86.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £88.50
75th Percentile £86.25 - £90.25
90th Percentile £110.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £79.25
% change year-on-year - - +50.95%

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 28,372 27,015 35,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,130 16,817 24,123
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 878 1,358
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.70 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 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 -6 140 £513 -13.50% 46
North of England -16 52 £506 +22.73% 21
South East +17 40 £500 -6.98% 34
Midlands -17 40 £575 +21.05% 17
West Midlands -9 32 £575 -11.54% 14
Yorkshire -22 29 £520 +26.06% 5
North West -14 23 £450 - 14
South West +2 17 £538 -6.52% 21
East of England -13 10 £438 +38.23% 7
East Midlands -16 8 £450 - 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, 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.

1 139 (47.60%) AWS
2 138 (47.26%) DevOps
3 126 (43.15%) Azure
4 123 (42.12%) Terraform
5 119 (40.75%) CI/CD
6 112 (38.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 99 (33.90%) Python
7 99 (33.90%) Security Cleared
8 85 (29.11%) Kubernetes
9 71 (24.32%) GCP
10 63 (21.58%) Agile
10 63 (21.58%) SC Cleared
11 57 (19.52%) Docker
11 57 (19.52%) GitHub
11 57 (19.52%) Microsoft
12 50 (17.12%) Cloud Security
12 50 (17.12%) Containerisation
13 49 (16.78%) Jenkins
14 43 (14.73%) Linux
15 41 (14.04%) Google
15 41 (14.04%) REST
16 40 (13.70%) PowerShell
17 38 (13.01%) GitLab
18 37 (12.67%) Ansible
19 36 (12.33%) SQL
20 35 (11.99%) Serverless
21 34 (11.64%) DV Cleared
21 34 (11.64%) Windows
22 33 (11.30%) Active Directory
22 33 (11.30%) Migration

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 10 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.71%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Confluence
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (47.60%) AWS
2 126 (43.15%) Azure
3 71 (24.32%) GCP
4 57 (19.52%) GitHub
5 35 (11.99%) Serverless
6 31 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (9.93%) Entra ID
8 26 (8.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (6.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 18 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (6.16%) PaaS
12 17 (5.82%) IaaS
13 15 (5.14%) Amazon S3
14 14 (4.79%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (4.11%) Azure AKS
16 11 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
18 9 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.59%) Firewall
2 21 (7.19%) Cisco Firepower
2 21 (7.19%) Cisco IOS
2 21 (7.19%) Cisco ISE
2 21 (7.19%) Junos
3 19 (6.51%) VPN
4 10 (3.42%) DNS
5 9 (3.08%) Network Security
6 5 (1.71%) NX-OS
7 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.37%) WAN
8 2 (0.68%) BGP
8 2 (0.68%) LAN
8 2 (0.68%) MPLS
8 2 (0.68%) SAN
8 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.34%) IPsec
9 1 (0.34%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.27%) NoSQL
2 28 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.74%) Power BI
4 6 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.37%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.37%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.37%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.03%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.03%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.68%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.68%) OLAP
8 2 (0.68%) OLTP
8 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.34%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 49 (16.78%) Jenkins
2 38 (13.01%) GitLab
3 23 (7.88%) Git
4 15 (5.14%) JIRA
4 15 (5.14%) Liquibase
5 3 (1.03%) Postman
6 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.68%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.52%) Finance
3 27 (9.25%) Banking
4 24 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.16%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.77%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.40%) Aeronautics
8 7 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Local Government
10 5 (1.71%) Aviation
10 5 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.68%) Billing
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Retail
12 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Military
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.04%) REST
2 20 (6.85%) RESTful
3 18 (6.16%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (4.45%) Kafka
4 13 (4.45%) Node.js
5 10 (3.42%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.08%) SOAP
7 8 (2.74%) OpenAPI
7 8 (2.74%) SAML
8 7 (2.40%) OpenID
8 7 (2.40%) Web Services
9 6 (2.05%) AWS CDK
9 6 (2.05%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.05%) JSON
9 6 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (2.05%) XSD
10 5 (1.71%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.71%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (1.71%) NestJS
10 5 (1.71%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.96%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.74%) PKI
5 7 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.71%) Genomics
7 5 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.71%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.37%) Life Science
9 3 (1.03%) Replication
10 2 (0.68%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.34%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.34%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.73%) Linux
2 34 (11.64%) Windows
3 21 (7.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.42%) Unix
5 4 (1.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.26%) DevOps
2 119 (40.75%) CI/CD
3 112 (38.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (21.58%) Agile
5 50 (17.12%) Cloud Security
5 50 (17.12%) Containerisation
6 33 (11.30%) Migration
7 32 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 32 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (10.62%) Infrastructure Automation
9 27 (9.25%) Microservices
10 26 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (8.56%) High Availability
11 25 (8.56%) Software Engineering
12 24 (8.22%) Service Management
13 23 (7.88%) Cost Optimisation
13 23 (7.88%) ITSM
14 21 (7.19%) Change Management
15 20 (6.85%) AI
15 20 (6.85%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 99 (33.90%) Python
2 40 (13.70%) PowerShell
3 36 (12.33%) SQL
4 31 (10.62%) Go
5 27 (9.25%) Java
6 24 (8.22%) Bash
7 13 (4.45%) Bicep
8 11 (3.77%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.08%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.74%) Perl
11 7 (2.40%) C#
12 6 (2.05%) JavaScript
13 4 (1.37%) BeanShell
14 3 (1.03%) Ruby
15 2 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.68%) VB
16 1 (0.34%) C
16 1 (0.34%) Korn
16 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.64%) DV Cleared
4 29 (9.93%) Azure Certification
5 27 (9.25%) Degree
6 25 (8.56%) AWS Certification
7 18 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (5.48%) Master's Degree
9 10 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.71%) CISSP
12 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.37%) CISM
13 3 (1.03%) CCSP
13 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.77%) NIST
2 10 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.40%) QA
4 6 (2.05%) GDPR
4 6 (2.05%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.71%) GRC
5 5 (1.71%) NCSC
6 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 57 (19.52%) Docker
2 33 (11.30%) Active Directory
3 21 (7.19%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.37%) Firmware
6 3 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.34%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 123 (42.12%) Terraform
2 85 (29.11%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.67%) Ansible
4 26 (8.90%) Grafana
4 26 (8.90%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.19%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.40%) Istio
6 7 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.37%) Puppet
9 3 (1.03%) Argo
9 3 (1.03%) Podman
9 3 (1.03%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.03%) QRadar
10 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.68%) Packer
11 1 (0.34%) Consul
11 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.04%) Google
3 24 (8.22%) Cisco
4 22 (7.53%) Juniper
4 22 (7.53%) Splunk
5 21 (7.19%) SolarWinds
6 14 (4.79%) Oracle
7 10 (3.42%) Databricks
7 10 (3.42%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.40%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.05%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.05%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.71%) Broadcom
10 5 (1.71%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.71%) VMware
11 4 (1.37%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.03%) Axway
12 3 (1.03%) Darktrace
12 3 (1.03%) SAP