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 29 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
29 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 305 250
Rank change year-on-year +24 -55 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 280 218 379
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 0.70% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.76% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 131 287
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £433 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
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 - - +55.39%

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 28,020 28,803 36,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.97% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,973 17,652 25,097
10th Percentile £282 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.87% -2.73%
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 1,685 1,059 1,413
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.32 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% -13.33% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +15 130 £513 -10.87% 47
North of England -16 53 £500 +21.21% 12
South East +25 41 £500 -2.91% 52
Midlands -11 39 £575 +21.05% 22
West Midlands -4 31 £575 -11.54% 14
Yorkshire -9 29 £520 +26.06% 4
North West -17 22 £444 -1.39% 6
South West +11 14 £538 -6.52% 21
East of England -7 11 £438 +38.23% 5
East Midlands -11 8 £450 - 8
North East -5 2 £400 -27.27% 2
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 138 (49.29%) AWS
2 136 (48.57%) DevOps
3 124 (44.29%) Terraform
4 123 (43.93%) CI/CD
5 120 (42.86%) Azure
6 115 (41.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 101 (36.07%) Python
8 89 (31.79%) Security Cleared
9 85 (30.36%) Kubernetes
10 67 (23.93%) GCP
11 61 (21.79%) Microsoft
12 58 (20.71%) Agile
12 58 (20.71%) Docker
13 55 (19.64%) GitHub
13 55 (19.64%) SC Cleared
14 54 (19.29%) Cloud Security
15 50 (17.86%) Jenkins
16 49 (17.50%) Containerisation
17 42 (15.00%) Linux
18 38 (13.57%) Ansible
18 38 (13.57%) GitLab
18 38 (13.57%) REST
19 37 (13.21%) Google
19 37 (13.21%) PowerShell
19 37 (13.21%) Serverless
19 37 (13.21%) Windows
20 35 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
21 33 (11.79%) DV Cleared
21 33 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 32 (11.43%) 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 12 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.43%) Confluence
2 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.07%) Apache
3 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.71%) NetWeaver
4 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (49.29%) AWS
2 120 (42.86%) Azure
3 67 (23.93%) GCP
4 55 (19.64%) GitHub
5 37 (13.21%) Serverless
6 31 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (9.64%) Entra ID
8 26 (9.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (6.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 16 (5.71%) Amazon S3
12 16 (5.71%) PaaS
13 15 (5.36%) IaaS
14 13 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (3.93%) Azure AKS
15 11 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.36%) Firewall
2 20 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
2 20 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
2 20 (7.14%) Junos
2 20 (7.14%) VPN
3 10 (3.57%) DNS
4 8 (2.86%) Network Security
5 4 (1.43%) NX-OS
5 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.43%) WAN
6 2 (0.71%) BGP
6 2 (0.71%) LAN
6 2 (0.71%) MPLS
6 2 (0.71%) SAN
6 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.36%) IPsec
7 1 (0.36%) VLAN
7 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 28 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.14%) Power BI
4 4 (1.43%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.43%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.07%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.07%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.36%) Big Data
7 1 (0.36%) Flink
7 1 (0.36%) KNIME
7 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.36%) Parquet
7 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 38 (13.57%) GitLab
3 21 (7.50%) Git
4 15 (5.36%) JIRA
4 15 (5.36%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.71%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.36%) Postman
6 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.71%) Finance
3 29 (10.36%) Banking
4 21 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.93%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.50%) Aeronautics
9 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.79%) Aviation
10 5 (1.79%) Local Government
10 5 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.71%) Billing
12 2 (0.71%) Law
12 2 (0.71%) Military
12 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Retail
13 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.57%) REST
2 20 (7.14%) RESTful
3 17 (6.07%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (5.00%) Node.js
5 11 (3.93%) Kafka
6 10 (3.57%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.21%) SAML
8 8 (2.86%) OpenAPI
9 7 (2.50%) OpenID
10 6 (2.14%) AWS CDK
10 6 (2.14%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.14%) JSON
10 6 (2.14%) SOAP
10 6 (2.14%) XSD
10 6 (2.14%) YAML
11 5 (1.79%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.79%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (1.79%) NestJS
11 5 (1.79%) pytest
11 5 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 20 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.50%) PKI
5 6 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.79%) Genomics
6 5 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.43%) Life Science
8 3 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.71%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.36%) FMCG
10 1 (0.36%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.00%) Linux
2 37 (13.21%) Windows
3 21 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.57%) Unix
5 4 (1.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (48.57%) DevOps
2 123 (43.93%) CI/CD
3 115 (41.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (20.71%) Agile
5 54 (19.29%) Cloud Security
6 49 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 35 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 30 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
9 30 (10.71%) Migration
10 28 (10.00%) High Availability
11 27 (9.64%) Microservices
12 25 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (8.57%) Service Management
14 22 (7.86%) Cost Optimisation
15 21 (7.50%) ITSM
15 21 (7.50%) Software Engineering
16 20 (7.14%) Change Management
16 20 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
17 19 (6.79%) AI
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.07%) Python
2 37 (13.21%) PowerShell
3 32 (11.43%) SQL
4 31 (11.07%) Go
5 27 (9.64%) Bash
6 26 (9.29%) Java
7 12 (4.29%) Bicep
8 11 (3.93%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.21%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.86%) Perl
11 6 (2.14%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.79%) C#
13 3 (1.07%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.71%) Ruby
14 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.71%) VB
15 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.36%) C
15 1 (0.36%) Korn
15 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.79%) DV Cleared
4 30 (10.71%) Azure Certification
5 26 (9.29%) AWS Certification
6 25 (8.93%) Degree
7 17 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (5.71%) Master's Degree
9 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.43%) CISSP
12 3 (1.07%) CCSP
12 3 (1.07%) CISM
13 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.93%) NIST
2 10 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.50%) QA
4 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.79%) NCSC
6 4 (1.43%) GDPR
7 3 (1.07%) GRC
8 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 58 (20.71%) Docker
2 31 (11.07%) Active Directory
3 20 (7.14%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.07%) Firmware
5 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.71%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) iptables
7 1 (0.36%) KVM
7 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 124 (44.29%) Terraform
2 85 (30.36%) Kubernetes
3 38 (13.57%) Ansible
4 26 (9.29%) Grafana
4 26 (9.29%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.14%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.50%) Istio
6 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.79%) Puppet
9 3 (1.07%) Argo
9 3 (1.07%) Podman
9 3 (1.07%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.07%) QRadar
10 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.71%) Packer
11 1 (0.36%) Consul
11 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 61 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.21%) Google
3 23 (8.21%) Cisco
4 21 (7.50%) Juniper
4 21 (7.50%) Splunk
5 20 (7.14%) SolarWinds
6 11 (3.93%) Zscaler
7 10 (3.57%) Oracle
8 8 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.50%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.14%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.79%) Darktrace
11 5 (1.79%) Databricks
11 5 (1.79%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.79%) VMware
12 4 (1.43%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.43%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.07%) Axway
13 3 (1.07%) SAP
134 Cloud Engineer jobs in England