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 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 281 293
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 396 196 266
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.80% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.87% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 153 190
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £462 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £619 £625 £613
90th Percentile £708 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £30.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 36,122 22,602 34,731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.81% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,747 15,141 23,178
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 844 2,344
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.42 £20.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%
75th Percentile £66.38 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.64% -9.26% -21.40%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +37 226 £525 - 47
North of England -38 55 £500 +5.26% 33
South East -29 41 £522 -7.20% 29
North West -16 28 £513 +13.89% 17
Midlands -51 28 £673 +41.58% 8
Yorkshire -30 27 £500 +53.85% 13
South West -9 22 £550 -4.35% 15
West Midlands -46 22 £680 +15.74% 5
East of England -23 19 £510 +3.55% 5
East Midlands -34 6 £575 +21.05% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 April 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.

1 188 (47.47%) Terraform
2 179 (45.20%) Azure
3 170 (42.93%) AWS
4 167 (42.17%) CI/CD
5 160 (40.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 156 (39.39%) DevOps
7 117 (29.55%) Security Cleared
8 98 (24.75%) Kubernetes
9 95 (23.99%) GCP
10 93 (23.48%) SC Cleared
11 89 (22.47%) Python
12 86 (21.72%) GitHub
13 85 (21.46%) Cloud Security
14 80 (20.20%) Microsoft
15 76 (19.19%) Google
16 72 (18.18%) Agile
17 65 (16.41%) PowerShell
18 58 (14.65%) Docker
19 56 (14.14%) Migration
20 55 (13.89%) Containerisation
21 52 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 52 (13.13%) Platform Engineering
22 49 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
23 47 (11.87%) Serverless
24 42 (10.61%) Firewall
25 41 (10.35%) Azure Certification
25 41 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
26 40 (10.10%) DevSecOps
26 40 (10.10%) Jenkins
27 39 (9.85%) 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 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.01%) Confluence
3 3 (0.76%) Apache
3 3 (0.76%) nginx
4 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
5 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 179 (45.20%) Azure
2 170 (42.93%) AWS
3 95 (23.99%) GCP
4 86 (21.72%) GitHub
5 49 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (11.87%) Serverless
7 37 (9.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (9.09%) Entra ID
9 34 (8.59%) PaaS
10 33 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 30 (7.58%) Amazon S3
11 30 (7.58%) IaaS
12 29 (7.32%) Azure AKS
13 24 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (4.55%) SaaS
16 18 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (4.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.61%) Firewall
2 17 (4.29%) Network Security
3 14 (3.54%) DNS
3 14 (3.54%) VPN
4 9 (2.27%) Cisco Firepower
5 8 (2.02%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
5 8 (2.02%) Junos
6 6 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.26%) NX-OS
8 4 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.51%) BGP
9 2 (0.51%) DKIM
9 2 (0.51%) SMTP
9 2 (0.51%) VLAN
10 1 (0.25%) DHCP
10 1 (0.25%) HTTP
10 1 (0.25%) ICMP
10 1 (0.25%) OSPF
10 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
1 10 (2.53%) BigQuery
2 7 (1.77%) NoSQL
2 7 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.52%) DynamoDB
3 6 (1.52%) Power BI
4 5 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.76%) Big Data
6 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.51%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.51%) OLAP
7 2 (0.51%) OLTP
7 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (10.10%) Jenkins
2 32 (8.08%) GitLab
3 31 (7.83%) Git
4 6 (1.52%) JIRA
5 4 (1.01%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.76%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.76%) Postman
6 3 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.51%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.51%) Selenium
7 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.25%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.25%) sqlmap
General
1 54 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.88%) Finance
3 34 (8.59%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.80%) Banking
5 16 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.77%) Aeronautics
6 7 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.77%) Retail
7 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.52%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.26%) Legal
9 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.76%) Marketing
10 3 (0.76%) Military
11 2 (0.51%) Law
11 2 (0.51%) Local Government
11 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.51%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.82%) REST
2 22 (5.56%) Node.js
3 12 (3.03%) Kafka
4 11 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (2.27%) React
5 9 (2.27%) Spring
6 8 (2.02%) .NET
6 8 (2.02%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.02%) SOAP
6 8 (2.02%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.77%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.77%) NestJS
7 7 (1.77%) OAuth
7 7 (1.77%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.77%) OpenID
7 7 (1.77%) Playwright
8 6 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (1.52%) RESTful
8 6 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 74 (18.69%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 16 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.77%) PKI
7 7 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.76%) Replication
11 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Life Science
12 1 (0.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.07%) Linux
2 26 (6.57%) Windows
3 12 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.01%) Unix
4 4 (1.01%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (42.17%) CI/CD
2 160 (40.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 156 (39.39%) DevOps
4 85 (21.46%) Cloud Security
5 72 (18.18%) Agile
6 56 (14.14%) Migration
7 55 (13.89%) Containerisation
8 52 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 52 (13.13%) Platform Engineering
9 41 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (10.10%) DevSecOps
11 36 (9.09%) Observability
12 35 (8.84%) Infrastructure Automation
13 34 (8.59%) AI
14 33 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (8.08%) Microservices
15 32 (8.08%) Software Engineering
16 30 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
17 26 (6.57%) Mentoring
18 23 (5.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 89 (22.47%) Python
2 65 (16.41%) PowerShell
3 39 (9.85%) SQL
4 28 (7.07%) Bash
5 26 (6.57%) Java
6 25 (6.31%) Bicep
7 14 (3.54%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.28%) C#
9 9 (2.27%) Go
10 5 (1.26%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.01%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.01%) Groovy
11 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.51%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) Cypher
13 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 117 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 93 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.35%) Azure Certification
4 24 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.55%) Degree
6 17 (4.29%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.03%) CISSP
9 10 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.77%) CISM
12 6 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.01%) CCSP
14 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.76%) CCNP
15 3 (0.76%) OSCP
15 3 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.78%) NCSC
2 10 (2.53%) GDPR
2 10 (2.53%) NIST
3 9 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.02%) QA
5 6 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.26%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.26%) GRC
7 2 (0.51%) SLA
7 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (14.65%) Docker
2 22 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (3.28%) VMware NSX
5 11 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.52%) Firmware
7 5 (1.26%) vSphere
8 4 (1.01%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
10 1 (0.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 188 (47.47%) Terraform
2 98 (24.75%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.06%) Ansible
4 20 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 19 (4.80%) Istio
6 17 (4.29%) Grafana
7 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.27%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.02%) Argo
10 6 (1.52%) Packer
11 4 (1.01%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.01%) Puppet
11 4 (1.01%) Salt
12 2 (0.51%) Consul
12 2 (0.51%) Podman
12 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.25%) Cilium
13 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.25%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 80 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 76 (19.19%) Google
3 16 (4.04%) Oracle
4 13 (3.28%) Cisco
5 9 (2.27%) Juniper
5 9 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.27%) Splunk
6 8 (2.02%) Databricks
6 8 (2.02%) SolarWinds
6 8 (2.02%) VMware
7 7 (1.77%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.77%) Ping Identity
8 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.26%) Broadcom
9 5 (1.26%) Citrix
9 5 (1.26%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.26%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.26%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.01%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.01%) Red Hat