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 7 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
7 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 294 266
Rank change year-on-year +29 -28 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 333 201 322
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.77% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 0.82% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 132 239
10th Percentile £404 £382 £413
25th Percentile £467 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £600 £646 £625
90th Percentile £725 £693 £700
UK median daily rate £524 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.77% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £33.45 - -
25th Percentile £40.13 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £30.00
75th Percentile £81.88 - £61.38
90th Percentile £98.75 - £78.70
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.38%

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 30,520 24,375 35,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.06% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,434 15,100 24,021
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 720 2,128
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.89 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -3.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.56 £61.25
90th Percentile £72.10 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.82 £33.77 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.69% -3.51% -

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +11 166 £525 -4.55% 41
North of England -23 60 £500 +11.11% 20
South East +7 45 £500 -13.04% 31
Yorkshire -22 38 £506 +22.73% 9
Midlands -28 38 £575 +15.00% 9
West Midlands -21 33 £575 -11.54% 8
North West -16 22 £420 -6.72% 10
South West -8 16 £538 -6.52% 18
East of England -19 10 £438 +6.97% 7
East Midlands -28 5 £575 +24.32% 1
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 February 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.

1 150 (45.05%) AWS
2 144 (43.24%) Terraform
3 142 (42.64%) DevOps
4 141 (42.34%) CI/CD
5 132 (39.64%) Azure
6 131 (39.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 106 (31.83%) Security Cleared
8 98 (29.43%) Python
9 94 (28.23%) Kubernetes
10 79 (23.72%) GitHub
11 74 (22.22%) GCP
12 67 (20.12%) SC Cleared
13 66 (19.82%) Agile
14 63 (18.92%) Microsoft
15 62 (18.62%) Containerisation
16 61 (18.32%) Docker
17 58 (17.42%) Cloud Security
18 52 (15.62%) Google
19 50 (15.02%) Serverless
20 48 (14.41%) Jenkins
21 44 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
22 42 (12.61%) GitLab
23 41 (12.31%) Microservices
24 39 (11.71%) PowerShell
24 39 (11.71%) REST
25 38 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
25 38 (11.41%) Linux
26 37 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
26 37 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
27 36 (10.81%) 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 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.20%) Apache
3 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.60%) Confluence
4 2 (0.60%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 150 (45.05%) AWS
2 132 (39.64%) Azure
3 79 (23.72%) GitHub
4 74 (22.22%) GCP
5 50 (15.02%) Serverless
6 44 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (10.51%) Entra ID
9 29 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (8.11%) PaaS
11 25 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (7.21%) Amazon S3
12 24 (7.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 22 (6.61%) IaaS
14 21 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (5.41%) Azure AKS
16 16 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (4.50%) OCI
18 13 (3.90%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.11%) Firewall
2 21 (6.31%) Cisco Firepower
2 21 (6.31%) Cisco IOS
2 21 (6.31%) Cisco ISE
2 21 (6.31%) Junos
3 16 (4.80%) Network Security
4 11 (3.30%) VPN
5 5 (1.50%) DNS
5 5 (1.50%) NX-OS
6 3 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.60%) LAN
7 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.60%) WAN
8 1 (0.30%) BGP
8 1 (0.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.30%) SAN
8 1 (0.30%) SSL
8 1 (0.30%) VLAN
8 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.71%) NoSQL
2 23 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.70%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.40%) Power BI
5 7 (2.10%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.60%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.60%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.60%) OLAP
9 2 (0.60%) OLTP
9 2 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 48 (14.41%) Jenkins
2 42 (12.61%) GitLab
3 25 (7.51%) Git
4 9 (2.70%) JIRA
5 8 (2.40%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.90%) Postman
7 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.60%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (17.12%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.52%) Finance
3 30 (9.01%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.11%) Banking
5 24 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.10%) Aeronautics
7 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.10%) Retail
8 6 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.50%) Aviation
9 5 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Local Government
10 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.60%) Billing
11 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing
11 2 (0.60%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.71%) REST
2 20 (6.01%) Node.js
3 19 (5.71%) RESTful
4 17 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (4.20%) Kafka
6 11 (3.30%) React
7 10 (3.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (2.70%) ARM Templates
8 9 (2.70%) OpenAPI
8 9 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (2.40%) OpenID
9 8 (2.40%) SAML
9 8 (2.40%) SOAP
9 8 (2.40%) Spring
10 7 (2.10%) .NET
10 7 (2.10%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.10%) LangChain
10 7 (2.10%) NestJS
10 7 (2.10%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.80%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.91%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.40%) PKI
7 7 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.90%) Genomics
10 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.90%) Life Science
10 3 (0.90%) Replication
11 2 (0.60%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.41%) Linux
2 22 (6.61%) Windows
3 18 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.40%) Unix
5 4 (1.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (42.64%) DevOps
2 141 (42.34%) CI/CD
3 131 (39.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (19.82%) Agile
5 62 (18.62%) Containerisation
6 58 (17.42%) Cloud Security
7 41 (12.31%) Microservices
8 38 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
10 36 (10.81%) Migration
11 34 (10.21%) DevSecOps
11 34 (10.21%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (9.31%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 28 (8.41%) High Availability
16 27 (8.11%) AI
16 27 (8.11%) Software Engineering
17 25 (7.51%) Observability
18 24 (7.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 98 (29.43%) Python
2 39 (11.71%) PowerShell
3 36 (10.81%) SQL
4 23 (6.91%) Java
5 19 (5.71%) Go
6 17 (5.11%) Bash
6 17 (5.11%) Bicep
7 12 (3.60%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.80%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.50%) C#
11 4 (1.20%) BeanShell
12 3 (0.90%) Ruby
13 2 (0.60%) Groovy
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) Perl
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (31.83%) Security Cleared
2 67 (20.12%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.51%) DV Cleared
4 34 (10.21%) Azure Certification
5 27 (8.11%) Degree
6 22 (6.61%) AWS Certification
7 19 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (5.11%) Master's Degree
9 10 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.40%) CISSP
11 6 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.50%) CISM
12 5 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (1.20%) CCSP
14 3 (0.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.00%) GDPR
1 10 (3.00%) NCSC
1 10 (3.00%) NIST
2 9 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.10%) QA
4 6 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.50%) GRC
6 4 (1.20%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (18.32%) Docker
2 30 (9.01%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.31%) VMware NSX
4 11 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.20%) Firmware
6 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.30%) KVM
9 1 (0.30%) Squid
9 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (43.24%) Terraform
2 94 (28.23%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.21%) Ansible
4 26 (7.81%) Prometheus
5 24 (7.21%) Grafana
6 21 (6.31%) vCenter Server
7 16 (4.80%) Istio
8 7 (2.10%) Argo
8 7 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.90%) Podman
10 3 (0.90%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.60%) Consul
11 2 (0.60%) Packer
12 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.30%) Puppet
12 1 (0.30%) Salt
12 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 63 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 52 (15.62%) Google
3 22 (6.61%) Cisco
3 22 (6.61%) Juniper
4 21 (6.31%) SolarWinds
5 20 (6.01%) Splunk
6 17 (5.11%) Oracle
7 11 (3.30%) Databricks
8 9 (2.70%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.10%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.10%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.50%) Broadcom
10 5 (1.50%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.50%) PeopleSoft
10 5 (1.50%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.20%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.20%) VMware
12 3 (0.90%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.90%) Zscaler
115 Cloud Engineer jobs in England