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 6 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
6 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 310 248
Rank change year-on-year +32 -62 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 287 218 373
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.71% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.77% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 135 286
10th Percentile £400 £392 £425
25th Percentile £431 £439 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £584 £650 £638
90th Percentile £702 £708 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £29.00 - -
25th Percentile £29.25 - £86.75
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £88.50
75th Percentile £98.13 - £90.25
90th Percentile £110.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £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 28,364 28,410 35,800
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.92% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,196 17,553 24,633
10th Percentile £288 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,707 984 1,397
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.17 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.66 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +39.88%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +3 135 £513 -10.87% 44
North of England -20 52 £500 +21.21% 65
South East +17 42 £500 -4.76% 73
Midlands -13 40 £575 +21.05% 37
West Midlands -4 32 £575 -11.54% 23
Yorkshire -16 29 £520 +26.06% 21
North West -17 21 £450 - 36
South West +1 15 £538 -6.52% 36
East of England -3 11 £438 +38.23% 30
East Midlands -14 8 £450 - 12
North East -1 2 £400 -27.27% 8
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 137 (47.74%) DevOps
2 136 (47.39%) AWS
3 124 (43.21%) Azure
4 123 (42.86%) Terraform
5 122 (42.51%) CI/CD
6 115 (40.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 100 (34.84%) Python
8 92 (32.06%) Security Cleared
9 81 (28.22%) Kubernetes
10 68 (23.69%) GCP
11 61 (21.25%) Microsoft
12 59 (20.56%) Agile
13 57 (19.86%) SC Cleared
14 56 (19.51%) Docker
15 55 (19.16%) GitHub
16 53 (18.47%) Cloud Security
17 50 (17.42%) Jenkins
18 49 (17.07%) Containerisation
19 41 (14.29%) Linux
20 40 (13.94%) REST
21 39 (13.59%) Google
21 39 (13.59%) PowerShell
22 37 (12.89%) Ansible
22 37 (12.89%) GitLab
22 37 (12.89%) Serverless
23 35 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
23 35 (12.20%) Windows
24 34 (11.85%) SQL
25 33 (11.50%) DV Cleared
25 33 (11.50%) 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 11 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.39%) Apache
2 4 (1.39%) Confluence
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.70%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (47.39%) AWS
2 124 (43.21%) Azure
3 68 (23.69%) GCP
4 55 (19.16%) GitHub
5 37 (12.89%) Serverless
6 31 (10.80%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (10.10%) Entra ID
8 26 (9.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (6.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 17 (5.92%) Amazon S3
13 17 (5.92%) PaaS
14 16 (5.57%) IaaS
15 14 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (3.83%) Azure AKS
17 11 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
17 11 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.10%) Firewall
2 21 (7.32%) Cisco Firepower
2 21 (7.32%) Cisco IOS
2 21 (7.32%) Cisco ISE
2 21 (7.32%) Junos
3 20 (6.97%) VPN
4 10 (3.48%) DNS
5 8 (2.79%) Network Security
6 5 (1.74%) NX-OS
7 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.39%) WAN
8 2 (0.70%) BGP
8 2 (0.70%) LAN
8 2 (0.70%) MPLS
8 2 (0.70%) SAN
8 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.35%) 5G
9 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.45%) NoSQL
2 28 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.44%) Power BI
4 6 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.39%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.05%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.35%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.35%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.35%) KNIME
8 1 (0.35%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 50 (17.42%) Jenkins
2 37 (12.89%) GitLab
3 21 (7.32%) Git
4 15 (5.23%) JIRA
4 15 (5.23%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.70%) Postman
5 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (20.56%) Finance
1 59 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.76%) Banking
3 22 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.92%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.83%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.44%) Aeronautics
8 6 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.09%) Local Government
9 5 (1.74%) Aviation
9 5 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.70%) Billing
10 2 (0.70%) Law
10 2 (0.70%) Military
10 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Retail
10 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.94%) REST
2 20 (6.97%) RESTful
3 17 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (4.53%) Node.js
5 12 (4.18%) Kafka
6 10 (3.48%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.79%) OpenAPI
7 8 (2.79%) SAML
7 8 (2.79%) SOAP
8 7 (2.44%) JSON
8 7 (2.44%) OpenID
9 6 (2.09%) AWS CDK
9 6 (2.09%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.09%) Web Services
9 6 (2.09%) XSD
9 6 (2.09%) YAML
10 5 (1.74%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.74%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.74%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.98%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.45%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.44%) PKI
5 6 (2.09%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.74%) Genomics
6 5 (1.74%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.39%) Life Science
8 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.70%) Replication
10 1 (0.35%) FMCG
10 1 (0.35%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.29%) Linux
2 35 (12.20%) Windows
3 21 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.48%) Unix
5 4 (1.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (47.74%) DevOps
2 122 (42.51%) CI/CD
3 115 (40.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (20.56%) Agile
5 53 (18.47%) Cloud Security
6 49 (17.07%) Containerisation
7 35 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (11.50%) Migration
9 32 (11.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (10.45%) Infrastructure Automation
11 28 (9.76%) High Availability
12 27 (9.41%) Microservices
13 25 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
14 24 (8.36%) Service Management
15 23 (8.01%) Cost Optimisation
15 23 (8.01%) ITSM
16 22 (7.67%) Software Engineering
17 21 (7.32%) Change Management
17 21 (7.32%) Cloud Operations
18 20 (6.97%) AI
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.84%) Python
2 39 (13.59%) PowerShell
3 34 (11.85%) SQL
4 31 (10.80%) Go
5 27 (9.41%) Java
6 24 (8.36%) Bash
7 13 (4.53%) Bicep
8 11 (3.83%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.14%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.79%) Perl
11 6 (2.09%) C#
11 6 (2.09%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.39%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.70%) Ruby
13 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.70%) VB
14 1 (0.35%) C
14 1 (0.35%) Korn
14 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 57 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.50%) DV Cleared
4 30 (10.45%) Azure Certification
5 26 (9.06%) AWS Certification
5 26 (9.06%) Degree
6 17 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (5.57%) Master's Degree
8 11 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.74%) CISSP
11 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.39%) CISM
12 3 (1.05%) CCSP
13 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.83%) NIST
2 10 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.44%) QA
4 6 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.74%) GDPR
5 5 (1.74%) NCSC
6 4 (1.39%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 56 (19.51%) Docker
2 32 (11.15%) Active Directory
3 21 (7.32%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.39%) Firmware
4 4 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) KVM
7 1 (0.35%) Squid
7 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (42.86%) Terraform
2 81 (28.22%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.89%) Ansible
4 26 (9.06%) Grafana
4 26 (9.06%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.32%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.44%) Istio
6 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.74%) Puppet
9 3 (1.05%) Argo
9 3 (1.05%) Podman
9 3 (1.05%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.05%) QRadar
10 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.70%) Packer
11 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.35%) Nessus
11 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 61 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 39 (13.59%) Google
3 24 (8.36%) Cisco
4 22 (7.67%) Juniper
5 21 (7.32%) SolarWinds
5 21 (7.32%) Splunk
6 12 (4.18%) Oracle
7 10 (3.48%) Zscaler
8 9 (3.14%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.44%) Databricks
9 7 (2.44%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.09%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.74%) Broadcom
11 5 (1.74%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.74%) VMware
12 4 (1.39%) Darktrace
12 4 (1.39%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.05%) Axway
13 3 (1.05%) SAP
267 Cloud Engineer jobs in England