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 8 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 290 314
Rank change year-on-year +59 +24 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 430 187 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 0.77% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.83% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 156 171
10th Percentile £405 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £434 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £620 £617
90th Percentile £707 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £522 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.43% -5.50% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £55.20 - -
25th Percentile £61.13 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £30.00
75th Percentile £74.50 - £32.50
90th Percentile £75.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -68.42%

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 37,387 22,434 34,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.58% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,316 14,918 22,678
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 909 2,434
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.11 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.98 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -16.88% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.49
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.04% -21.23% -18.89%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +56 249 £525 +5.00% 61
North of England -31 53 £500 +8.11% 40
South East -40 49 £510 -7.27% 40
North West -25 27 £538 +19.44% 20
Midlands -58 26 £675 +42.11% 24
East of England -11 25 £500 +1.52% 6
Yorkshire -27 22 £481 +13.24% 17
West Midlands -41 22 £675 +14.89% 14
South West -23 20 £550 -4.35% 27
North East -20 4 £525 -8.70% 3
East Midlands -32 4 £418 -12.11% 10
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 209 (48.60%) Azure
2 199 (46.28%) Terraform
3 174 (40.47%) AWS
3 174 (40.47%) CI/CD
4 170 (39.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 157 (36.51%) DevOps
6 127 (29.53%) Security Cleared
7 105 (24.42%) SC Cleared
8 99 (23.02%) Kubernetes
9 96 (22.33%) GCP
10 92 (21.40%) Cloud Security
11 87 (20.23%) Python
12 84 (19.53%) GitHub
13 83 (19.30%) Microsoft
14 76 (17.67%) PowerShell
15 73 (16.98%) Google
16 66 (15.35%) Agile
17 65 (15.12%) Migration
18 58 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 57 (13.26%) Platform Engineering
20 54 (12.56%) GitHub Actions
21 52 (12.09%) Containerisation
21 52 (12.09%) Docker
22 47 (10.93%) Firewall
23 44 (10.23%) Serverless
24 43 (10.00%) SQL
25 42 (9.77%) AI
26 41 (9.53%) Azure Certification
27 40 (9.30%) DevSecOps
28 39 (9.07%) Azure DevOps

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 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.93%) Confluence
3 3 (0.70%) Apache
4 2 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) SAS
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 209 (48.60%) Azure
2 174 (40.47%) AWS
3 96 (22.33%) GCP
4 84 (19.53%) GitHub
5 54 (12.56%) GitHub Actions
6 44 (10.23%) Serverless
7 39 (9.07%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (8.60%) Entra ID
8 37 (8.60%) PaaS
9 33 (7.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 33 (7.67%) IaaS
10 32 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (7.44%) Azure AKS
11 30 (6.98%) Amazon S3
12 23 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (4.65%) OCI
15 18 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (3.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (10.93%) Firewall
2 20 (4.65%) DNS
3 18 (4.19%) Network Security
4 16 (3.72%) VPN
5 6 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (1.16%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (0.93%) Junos
7 4 (0.93%) NX-OS
7 4 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.70%) SMTP
8 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) DHCP
9 2 (0.47%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.47%) NGFW
9 2 (0.47%) SSL
9 2 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.79%) BigQuery
2 11 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (1.63%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.63%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.40%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.70%) Big Data
7 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.70%) Power BI
7 3 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.47%) OLAP
8 2 (0.47%) OLTP
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 32 (7.44%) Git
3 30 (6.98%) GitLab
4 6 (1.40%) JIRA
5 4 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.47%) Postman
7 2 (0.47%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.47%) Selenium
7 2 (0.47%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.23%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.23%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.23%) JUnit
8 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.23%) sqlmap
General
1 53 (12.33%) Social Skills
2 47 (10.93%) Finance
3 35 (8.14%) Public Sector
4 16 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.72%) Banking
5 9 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.86%) Retail
7 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.40%) Aeronautics
8 6 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.16%) Legal
9 5 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.93%) Marketing
11 3 (0.70%) Military
12 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.47%) Law
12 2 (0.47%) Local Government
12 2 (0.47%) Police
13 1 (0.23%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.65%) REST
2 19 (4.42%) Node.js
3 12 (2.79%) Kafka
4 11 (2.56%) React
4 11 (2.56%) Spring
5 10 (2.33%) OAuth
5 10 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 9 (2.09%) OAuth2
6 9 (2.09%) OpenID
7 8 (1.86%) .NET
7 8 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.40%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.40%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.40%) LangChain
8 6 (1.40%) Playwright
9 5 (1.16%) OpenAPI
9 5 (1.16%) SOAP
9 5 (1.16%) Web Services
10 4 (0.93%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.74%) Public Cloud
3 21 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.86%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.16%) PKI
9 5 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.70%) Replication
12 2 (0.47%) CMDB
12 2 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.14%) Windows
2 24 (5.58%) Linux
3 18 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.47%) Unix
5 2 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (40.47%) CI/CD
2 170 (39.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 157 (36.51%) DevOps
4 92 (21.40%) Cloud Security
5 66 (15.35%) Agile
6 65 (15.12%) Migration
7 58 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 57 (13.26%) Platform Engineering
9 52 (12.09%) Containerisation
10 42 (9.77%) AI
11 40 (9.30%) DevSecOps
12 39 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (8.37%) Observability
15 34 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (7.91%) Software Engineering
16 29 (6.74%) Infrastructure Automation
17 27 (6.28%) Mentoring
18 26 (6.05%) Microservices
19 23 (5.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (20.23%) Python
2 76 (17.67%) PowerShell
3 43 (10.00%) SQL
4 33 (7.67%) Bash
5 31 (7.21%) Bicep
6 23 (5.35%) Java
7 17 (3.95%) C#
8 10 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.63%) Go
10 6 (1.40%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.93%) Groovy
12 3 (0.70%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.47%) Ruby
13 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.23%) Cypher
14 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 127 (29.53%) Security Cleared
2 105 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.53%) Azure Certification
4 20 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.26%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.26%) Degree
6 13 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.56%) CISSP
8 10 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.40%) CISM
13 5 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.93%) CCSP
15 3 (0.70%) CCNP
15 3 (0.70%) OSCP
15 3 (0.70%) SANS
16 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.33%) GDPR
1 10 (2.33%) NCSC
1 10 (2.33%) NIST
2 9 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.09%) QA
3 7 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.16%) GRC
5 2 (0.47%) SLA
5 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (12.09%) Docker
2 23 (5.35%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.02%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.86%) vSphere
7 7 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (1.40%) Firmware
9 5 (1.16%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.70%) vCloud
12 1 (0.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 199 (46.28%) Terraform
2 99 (23.02%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.42%) Ansible
4 18 (4.19%) Prometheus
5 17 (3.95%) Istio
6 14 (3.26%) Grafana
6 14 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.86%) Argo
7 8 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.86%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.40%) Packer
9 4 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.93%) Puppet
9 4 (0.93%) Salt
10 3 (0.70%) SCOM
11 2 (0.47%) Cilium
12 1 (0.23%) Consul
12 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.23%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 73 (16.98%) Google
3 22 (5.12%) Oracle
4 18 (4.19%) VMware
5 9 (2.09%) Cisco
5 9 (2.09%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.40%) Databricks
8 6 (1.40%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.40%) Splunk
9 5 (1.16%) Citrix
9 5 (1.16%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.16%) Juniper
9 5 (1.16%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.16%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.16%) Zscaler
10 4 (0.93%) Broadcom
10 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.93%) SolarWinds
192 Cloud Engineer jobs in England