Cloud Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 274 243
Rank change year-on-year -35 -31 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 240 502 840
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.99% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.05% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 365 546
10th Percentile £400 £412 £403
25th Percentile £473 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £675
90th Percentile £690 £714 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £45.50 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -68.42% +20.63% -
75th Percentile £32.50 £103.13 -
90th Percentile - £103.50 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £73.00 £45.14
% change year-on-year -58.90% +61.72% -16.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 27 April 2024. 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 -12 133 £573 -0.43% 53
North of England +10 27 £525 +5.00% 38
South West +5 25 £500 -16.67% 29
South East -9 20 £530 -5.99% 23
North West -7 17 £510 +4.62% 18
Midlands +3 15 £523 +3.47% 28
Yorkshire +20 10 £600 +4.35% 16
West Midlands +12 10 £650 +26.21% 11
East Midlands +17 5 £356 -17.93% 17
East of England -1 1 £475 - 13
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 141 (58.75%) Azure
2 122 (50.83%) AWS
3 103 (42.92%) Terraform
4 90 (37.50%) DevOps
5 83 (34.58%) Python
6 76 (31.67%) CI/CD
7 67 (27.92%) Kubernetes
8 62 (25.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (23.33%) Microsoft
9 56 (23.33%) Social Skills
10 52 (21.67%) Windows
11 50 (20.83%) Docker
12 44 (18.33%) Agile
13 43 (17.92%) Security Cleared
14 41 (17.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 40 (16.67%) PowerShell
16 39 (16.25%) Finance
17 38 (15.83%) SC Cleared
18 36 (15.00%) Linux
18 36 (15.00%) Azure Certification
19 35 (14.58%) Active Directory
20 34 (14.17%) GCP
21 33 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
22 32 (13.33%) SQL
23 31 (12.92%) Serverless
23 31 (12.92%) Cloud Security
24 30 (12.50%) Migration
24 30 (12.50%) VMware
25 29 (12.08%) Containerisation
26 27 (11.25%) Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.92%) Apache
3 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.08%) JBoss
5 3 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.83%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) Confluence
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 141 (58.75%) Azure
2 122 (50.83%) AWS
3 34 (14.17%) GCP
4 33 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (12.92%) Serverless
6 27 (11.25%) GitHub
7 26 (10.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (8.33%) PaaS
10 18 (7.50%) Amazon S3
10 18 (7.50%) Entra ID
10 18 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (6.67%) IaaS
12 15 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (4.58%) Azure AKS
14 11 (4.58%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.17%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.83%) DNS
2 22 (9.17%) Firewall
3 15 (6.25%) VPN
4 11 (4.58%) Network Security
5 9 (3.75%) DHCP
6 7 (2.92%) MPLS
6 7 (2.92%) WAN
7 6 (2.50%) BGP
7 6 (2.50%) IPv4
7 6 (2.50%) LAN
7 6 (2.50%) VLAN
8 5 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.08%) FTP
8 5 (2.08%) HTTPS
8 5 (2.08%) OSPF
9 4 (1.67%) EIGRP
9 4 (1.67%) HSRP
9 4 (1.67%) IPv6
9 4 (1.67%) VXLAN
9 4 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.17%) Big Data
2 9 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.33%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.92%) Power BI
5 6 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.08%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.83%) Metadata
9 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.42%) Redis
10 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (10.42%) Git
2 20 (8.33%) GitLab
2 20 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.50%) JIRA
4 8 (3.33%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.50%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (2.08%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.08%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.67%) Snyk
8 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.42%) Selenium
9 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 56 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.25%) Finance
3 20 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.17%) Banking
5 10 (4.17%) Retail
6 6 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.08%) Legal
7 5 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.25%) Law
9 2 (0.83%) Billing
9 2 (0.83%) Local Government
9 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.75%) OAuth
2 8 (3.33%) Node.js
2 8 (3.33%) OAuth2
3 7 (2.92%) JSON
4 6 (2.50%) SAML
5 5 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.08%) Kafka
5 5 (2.08%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.08%) XML
5 5 (2.08%) YAML
6 4 (1.67%) RESTful
7 3 (1.25%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.25%) ADO
7 3 (1.25%) JDBC
7 3 (1.25%) ODBC
8 2 (0.83%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.83%) Django
8 2 (0.83%) HornetQ
8 2 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.83%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 11 (4.58%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.92%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.25%) PKI
8 3 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.83%) Clustering
9 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Tandem
10 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) IoT
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 52 (21.67%) Windows
2 36 (15.00%) Linux
3 17 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.50%) Debian
6 5 (2.08%) VMS
7 2 (0.83%) Unix
7 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (37.50%) DevOps
2 76 (31.67%) CI/CD
3 62 (25.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (18.33%) Agile
5 41 (17.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 31 (12.92%) Cloud Security
7 30 (12.50%) Migration
8 29 (12.08%) Containerisation
9 27 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (10.83%) DevSecOps
10 26 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (7.92%) Analytics
12 18 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (7.50%) Identity Access Management
13 17 (7.08%) Deployment Automation
14 15 (6.25%) Information Security
15 14 (5.83%) Microservices
15 14 (5.83%) Scrum
15 14 (5.83%) Task Automation
16 13 (5.42%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 83 (34.58%) Python
2 40 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 32 (13.33%) SQL
4 27 (11.25%) Bash
5 18 (7.50%) Java
6 13 (5.42%) C#
7 10 (4.17%) Bicep
7 10 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.33%) Perl
9 6 (2.50%) Go
9 6 (2.50%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.25%) C
10 3 (1.25%) C++
10 3 (1.25%) Julia
11 2 (0.83%) Ruby
11 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.00%) Azure Certification
4 21 (8.75%) AWS Certification
5 17 (7.08%) Degree
6 11 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.92%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.50%) CCIE
10 5 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.67%) CCNA
11 4 (1.67%) CCNP
12 2 (0.83%) CISSP
12 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.42%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.92%) NIST
3 5 (2.08%) NCSC
4 4 (1.67%) SLA
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 50 (20.83%) Docker
2 35 (14.58%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 16 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.92%) vSphere
6 5 (2.08%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.83%) Varnish
8 2 (0.83%) vCloud
9 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 103 (42.92%) Terraform
2 67 (27.92%) Kubernetes
3 24 (10.00%) Ansible
4 7 (2.92%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.08%) Kibana
6 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.67%) Puppet
6 4 (1.67%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.25%) Argo
7 3 (1.25%) Grafana
7 3 (1.25%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.25%) SCCM
7 3 (1.25%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.83%) Consul
8 2 (0.83%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.83%) Rancher
8 2 (0.83%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.42%) Packer
9 1 (0.42%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 56 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.50%) VMware
3 15 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 13 (5.42%) Google
4 13 (5.42%) Splunk
5 11 (4.58%) Cisco
6 9 (3.75%) F5
7 7 (2.92%) CA
7 7 (2.92%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.50%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.50%) HP
8 6 (2.50%) Informatica
9 5 (2.08%) Citrix
9 5 (2.08%) Oracle
9 5 (2.08%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.08%) Talend
10 4 (1.67%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.25%) Databricks
11 3 (1.25%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.25%) Zscaler
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