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 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 283 285
Rank change year-on-year +29 +2 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 389 198 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 0.80% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.86% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 151 212
10th Percentile £400 £380 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £618 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £30.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £46.94
90th Percentile - - £72.93
UK median hourly rate £25.25 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -58.90%

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 34,524 22,954 34,992
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 93.06% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,808 15,206 23,386
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 799 2,282
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.05 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.99
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.41% +1.25% -23.53%

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 22 March 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
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 22 March 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 +35 211 £525 - 46
North of England -31 69 £500 +5.26% 29
Yorkshire -21 39 £506 +55.77% 14
South East -31 38 £522 -7.20% 22
Midlands -39 37 £575 +21.05% 8
West Midlands -43 32 £623 +5.96% 5
North West -10 30 £500 +11.11% 12
South West -18 20 £544 -5.43% 17
East of England -15 16 £480 +19.55% 6
East Midlands -38 5 £575 +25.27% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 March 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.

1 189 (48.59%) Terraform
2 174 (44.73%) AWS
3 167 (42.93%) CI/CD
4 165 (42.42%) DevOps
5 164 (42.16%) Azure
6 161 (41.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 108 (27.76%) Kubernetes
8 107 (27.51%) Security Cleared
9 103 (26.48%) Python
10 98 (25.19%) GCP
11 90 (23.14%) GitHub
12 77 (19.79%) Cloud Security
12 77 (19.79%) Google
12 77 (19.79%) SC Cleared
13 76 (19.54%) Agile
13 76 (19.54%) Microsoft
14 68 (17.48%) Containerisation
14 68 (17.48%) Docker
15 60 (15.42%) PowerShell
16 57 (14.65%) Serverless
17 54 (13.88%) Migration
18 53 (13.62%) GitHub Actions
18 53 (13.62%) Jenkins
19 46 (11.83%) Platform Engineering
20 45 (11.57%) Azure Certification
21 43 (11.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 43 (11.05%) Linux
22 42 (10.80%) GitLab
22 42 (10.80%) Microservices
22 42 (10.80%) SQL

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 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.03%) Apache
2 4 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.77%) Confluence
3 3 (0.77%) nginx
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.26%) CMS
4 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.26%) SAS
4 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 174 (44.73%) AWS
2 164 (42.16%) Azure
3 98 (25.19%) GCP
4 90 (23.14%) GitHub
5 57 (14.65%) Serverless
6 53 (13.62%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (9.51%) Entra ID
9 34 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (8.74%) PaaS
10 33 (8.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 28 (7.20%) Amazon S3
11 28 (7.20%) IaaS
12 26 (6.68%) Azure AKS
13 25 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
15 19 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (4.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (10.03%) Firewall
2 18 (4.63%) Network Security
3 17 (4.37%) VPN
4 12 (3.08%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (3.08%) Cisco IOS
4 12 (3.08%) Cisco ISE
4 12 (3.08%) DNS
4 12 (3.08%) Junos
5 5 (1.29%) NX-OS
6 4 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.77%) LAN
8 2 (0.51%) BGP
8 2 (0.51%) DKIM
8 2 (0.51%) VLAN
8 2 (0.51%) WAN
8 2 (0.51%) Wireless
9 1 (0.26%) MPLS
9 1 (0.26%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.66%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.57%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.80%) Power BI
6 6 (1.54%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.03%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.51%) Mixpanel
10 2 (0.51%) OLAP
10 2 (0.51%) OLTP
10 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 53 (13.62%) Jenkins
2 42 (10.80%) GitLab
3 29 (7.46%) Git
4 8 (2.06%) JIRA
5 7 (1.80%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.77%) Postman
6 3 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.26%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.26%) sqlmap
General
1 63 (16.20%) Finance
2 62 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 31 (7.97%) Banking
3 31 (7.97%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.83%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.80%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.80%) Retail
8 6 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.03%) Aviation
9 4 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.03%) Legal
10 3 (0.77%) Local Government
10 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.28%) REST
2 24 (6.17%) Node.js
3 17 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (4.37%) RESTful
4 12 (3.08%) Kafka
5 11 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (2.83%) React
6 10 (2.57%) OpenID
7 9 (2.31%) OpenAPI
7 9 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (2.06%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.06%) SOAP
8 8 (2.06%) Spring
9 7 (1.80%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.80%) Lambda Expressions
9 7 (1.80%) NestJS
9 7 (1.80%) OAuth
9 7 (1.80%) Playwright
9 7 (1.80%) SAML
9 7 (1.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.54%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.03%) Public Cloud
3 19 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.83%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.57%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.06%) PKI
7 8 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.77%) Replication
12 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.51%) Genomics
12 2 (0.51%) Life Science
12 2 (0.51%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.05%) Linux
2 26 (6.68%) Windows
3 12 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.06%) Unix
5 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.03%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (42.93%) CI/CD
2 165 (42.42%) DevOps
3 161 (41.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (19.79%) Cloud Security
5 76 (19.54%) Agile
6 68 (17.48%) Containerisation
7 54 (13.88%) Migration
8 46 (11.83%) Platform Engineering
9 43 (11.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 42 (10.80%) Microservices
11 41 (10.54%) Infrastructure Automation
12 39 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
14 34 (8.74%) Observability
14 34 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (8.48%) DevSecOps
16 32 (8.23%) AI
17 31 (7.97%) Software Engineering
18 27 (6.94%) Analytics
19 24 (6.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 103 (26.48%) Python
2 60 (15.42%) PowerShell
3 42 (10.80%) SQL
4 27 (6.94%) Bash
4 27 (6.94%) Java
5 22 (5.66%) Bicep
6 19 (4.88%) Go
7 15 (3.86%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.83%) C#
9 6 (1.54%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.03%) BeanShell
10 4 (1.03%) Ruby
11 3 (0.77%) Groovy
12 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.51%) Perl
13 1 (0.26%) C
13 1 (0.26%) Cypher
13 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 107 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.57%) Azure Certification
4 29 (7.46%) Degree
5 25 (6.43%) DV Cleared
6 23 (5.91%) AWS Certification
7 21 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (3.86%) Master's Degree
9 13 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (3.08%) CISSP
11 10 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.80%) CISM
14 6 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.29%) CCSP
15 5 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 3 (0.77%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.08%) GDPR
1 12 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.57%) NIST
3 9 (2.31%) NCSC
4 6 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.29%) GRC
5 5 (1.29%) QA
6 4 (1.03%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.51%) SLA
7 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (17.48%) Docker
2 23 (5.91%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.34%) VMware NSX
4 11 (2.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.54%) Firmware
6 4 (1.03%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 189 (48.59%) Terraform
2 108 (27.76%) Kubernetes
3 34 (8.74%) Ansible
4 28 (7.20%) Prometheus
5 25 (6.43%) Grafana
6 19 (4.88%) Istio
7 13 (3.34%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (2.06%) Argo
11 4 (1.03%) Packer
11 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.77%) Podman
12 3 (0.77%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.51%) Consul
13 2 (0.51%) Puppet
13 2 (0.51%) Salt
14 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.26%) PaperCut
14 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 77 (19.79%) Google
2 76 (19.54%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.14%) Splunk
4 17 (4.37%) Cisco
4 17 (4.37%) Oracle
5 13 (3.34%) Juniper
6 12 (3.08%) SolarWinds
7 10 (2.57%) Databricks
7 10 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.80%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.80%) Ping Identity
9 5 (1.29%) Broadcom
9 5 (1.29%) Citrix
9 5 (1.29%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.29%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.29%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.03%) VMware
10 4 (1.03%) Zscaler