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 22 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
22 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 311 245
Rank change year-on-year +26 -66 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 284 219 384
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.70% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.75% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 130 290
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £703 £701 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £29.00 - -
25th Percentile £29.50 - £86.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £88.50
75th Percentile £86.25 - £90.25
90th Percentile £110.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £79.25
% change year-on-year - - +53.14%

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 27,895 29,050 36,997
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,870 17,756 25,553
10th Percentile £283 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -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 1,704 1,106 1,431
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.12 £19.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +50.00%

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 November 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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +5 130 £516 -12.87% 97
North of England -11 53 £500 +21.21% 32
South East +25 46 £500 - 51
Midlands -11 40 £563 +21.62% 30
West Midlands -2 32 £575 -14.81% 25
Yorkshire -22 29 £520 +26.06% 8
North West -16 22 £444 -1.39% 23
South West -1 13 £538 -6.52% 27
East of England -7 9 £438 +38.23% 7
East Midlands -11 8 £450 - 5
North East -2 2 £400 -27.27% 1
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 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.

1 142 (50.00%) AWS
2 140 (49.30%) DevOps
3 129 (45.42%) CI/CD
4 126 (44.37%) Terraform
5 123 (43.31%) Azure
6 116 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 109 (38.38%) Python
8 94 (33.10%) Security Cleared
9 92 (32.39%) Kubernetes
10 68 (23.94%) GCP
11 64 (22.54%) Docker
12 62 (21.83%) Agile
13 61 (21.48%) Microsoft
14 60 (21.13%) SC Cleared
15 55 (19.37%) GitHub
15 55 (19.37%) Jenkins
16 54 (19.01%) Containerisation
17 53 (18.66%) Cloud Security
18 45 (15.85%) Linux
19 39 (13.73%) Ansible
19 39 (13.73%) GitLab
19 39 (13.73%) PowerShell
19 39 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
20 38 (13.38%) REST
20 38 (13.38%) Windows
21 37 (13.03%) Serverless
22 36 (12.68%) Google
23 34 (11.97%) DV Cleared
23 34 (11.97%) Go
23 34 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 12 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.41%) Confluence
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.06%) Apache
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.06%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.70%) NetWeaver
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%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 142 (50.00%) AWS
2 123 (43.31%) Azure
3 68 (23.94%) GCP
4 55 (19.37%) GitHub
5 37 (13.03%) Serverless
6 32 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (9.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (9.51%) Entra ID
8 21 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (6.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 18 (6.34%) Amazon S3
12 15 (5.28%) IaaS
12 15 (5.28%) PaaS
13 14 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (3.87%) Azure AKS
15 11 (3.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.56%) Firewall
2 20 (7.04%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (7.04%) Cisco IOS
2 20 (7.04%) Cisco ISE
2 20 (7.04%) Junos
2 20 (7.04%) VPN
3 12 (4.23%) DNS
4 9 (3.17%) Network Security
5 4 (1.41%) NX-OS
5 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.41%) WAN
6 3 (1.06%) BGP
6 3 (1.06%) SAN
7 2 (0.70%) LAN
7 2 (0.70%) MPLS
7 2 (0.70%) OSPF
7 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.35%) SMTP
8 1 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.27%) NoSQL
2 30 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.46%) Power BI
4 6 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.41%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.41%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.35%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.35%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.35%) KNIME
9 1 (0.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 55 (19.37%) Jenkins
2 39 (13.73%) GitLab
3 21 (7.39%) Git
4 17 (5.99%) JIRA
4 17 (5.99%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.35%) Postman
6 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 59 (20.77%) Finance
3 30 (10.56%) Banking
4 24 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.87%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.46%) Aeronautics
9 6 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.76%) Aviation
10 5 (1.76%) Local Government
10 5 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Billing
12 2 (0.70%) Law
12 2 (0.70%) Marketing
12 2 (0.70%) Military
12 2 (0.70%) Retail
13 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.38%) REST
2 20 (7.04%) RESTful
3 18 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (5.28%) Kafka
5 14 (4.93%) Node.js
6 10 (3.52%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.82%) SAML
8 7 (2.46%) OpenAPI
9 6 (2.11%) AWS CDK
9 6 (2.11%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.11%) JSON
9 6 (2.11%) OpenID
9 6 (2.11%) SOAP
9 6 (2.11%) YAML
10 5 (1.76%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.76%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (1.76%) NestJS
10 5 (1.76%) pytest
10 5 (1.76%) Web Services
10 5 (1.76%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.79%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.56%) Public Cloud
3 20 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.46%) PKI
5 6 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.76%) Genomics
6 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.41%) Life Science
7 4 (1.41%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.35%) CSOC
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.35%) FMCG
10 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.85%) Linux
2 38 (13.38%) Windows
3 22 (7.75%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.17%) Unix
5 4 (1.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (49.30%) DevOps
2 129 (45.42%) CI/CD
3 116 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (21.83%) Agile
5 54 (19.01%) Containerisation
6 53 (18.66%) Cloud Security
7 39 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 30 (10.56%) High Availability
9 30 (10.56%) Infrastructure Automation
9 30 (10.56%) Migration
10 27 (9.51%) Microservices
11 26 (9.15%) Service Management
12 25 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (8.10%) Cost Optimisation
13 23 (8.10%) ITSM
14 22 (7.75%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (7.39%) Change Management
15 21 (7.39%) Software Engineering
16 19 (6.69%) AI
Programming Languages
1 109 (38.38%) Python
2 39 (13.73%) PowerShell
3 34 (11.97%) Go
3 34 (11.97%) SQL
4 33 (11.62%) Bash
5 29 (10.21%) Java
6 12 (4.23%) Bicep
7 10 (3.52%) Perl
7 10 (3.52%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.17%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.11%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.76%) C#
11 3 (1.06%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.70%) Ruby
12 2 (0.70%) Scala
12 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.70%) VB
13 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (33.10%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.97%) DV Cleared
4 30 (10.56%) AWS Certification
4 30 (10.56%) Azure Certification
5 27 (9.51%) Degree
6 19 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (5.63%) Master's Degree
8 11 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.41%) CISSP
11 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.06%) CCSP
11 3 (1.06%) CISM
12 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (3.52%) NIST
2 8 (2.82%) QA
3 6 (2.11%) GDPR
3 6 (2.11%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.76%) NCSC
5 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 64 (22.54%) Docker
2 31 (10.92%) Active Directory
3 20 (7.04%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.06%) Firmware
5 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.06%) vSphere
6 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.35%) Ceph
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) KVM
7 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 126 (44.37%) Terraform
2 92 (32.39%) Kubernetes
3 39 (13.73%) Ansible
4 27 (9.51%) Grafana
4 27 (9.51%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.04%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.46%) Istio
6 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.76%) Puppet
9 3 (1.06%) Argo
9 3 (1.06%) Podman
9 3 (1.06%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.06%) QRadar
10 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.70%) Nessus
10 2 (0.70%) Packer
11 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 61 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 36 (12.68%) Google
3 24 (8.45%) Cisco
4 21 (7.39%) Juniper
5 20 (7.04%) SolarWinds
5 20 (7.04%) Splunk
6 11 (3.87%) Zscaler
7 10 (3.52%) Oracle
7 10 (3.52%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.46%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.76%) Darktrace
9 5 (1.76%) Databricks
9 5 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.76%) Ping Identity
9 5 (1.76%) VMware
10 4 (1.41%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.41%) SAP
11 3 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.06%) Axway
233 Cloud Engineer jobs in England