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 1 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 289 271
Rank change year-on-year +31 -18 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 330 203 328
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.77% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 0.82% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 130 241
10th Percentile £404 £380 £413
25th Percentile £466 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £600 £649 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £522 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £41.25 - £30.00
75th Percentile £67.81 - £61.38
90th Percentile £93.13 - £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 30,140 24,646 35,463
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 93.03% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,205 15,195 23,928
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
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 1,877 735 2,040
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.92 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.08
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.90% +2.99%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £32.66 £36.05
% change year-on-year -9.36% -9.40% +2.99%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +6 165 £525 -4.55% 48
North of England -24 57 £500 +11.11% 15
South East +14 45 £500 -13.04% 49
Midlands -33 38 £575 +15.00% 12
Yorkshire -23 36 £513 +24.24% 5
West Midlands -20 32 £575 -11.54% 8
North West -15 21 £420 -6.72% 9
South West -14 16 £538 -6.52% 23
East of England -15 10 £438 +6.97% 7
East Midlands -23 6 £575 +24.32% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 146 (44.24%) AWS
2 144 (43.64%) Terraform
3 141 (42.73%) DevOps
4 138 (41.82%) CI/CD
5 131 (39.70%) Azure
6 128 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 106 (32.12%) Security Cleared
8 98 (29.70%) Python
9 95 (28.79%) Kubernetes
10 80 (24.24%) GitHub
11 73 (22.12%) GCP
12 67 (20.30%) SC Cleared
13 65 (19.70%) Microsoft
14 64 (19.39%) Agile
15 62 (18.79%) Containerisation
16 61 (18.48%) Docker
17 55 (16.67%) Cloud Security
18 52 (15.76%) Google
19 47 (14.24%) Jenkins
19 47 (14.24%) Serverless
20 46 (13.94%) GitHub Actions
21 42 (12.73%) GitLab
22 39 (11.82%) Linux
22 39 (11.82%) Microservices
22 39 (11.82%) PowerShell
23 38 (11.52%) REST
24 37 (11.21%) AWS CloudFormation
24 37 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
25 36 (10.91%) Entra ID
26 35 (10.61%) Ansible

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 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.21%) Apache
3 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.61%) Confluence
4 2 (0.61%) 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 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 146 (44.24%) AWS
2 131 (39.70%) Azure
3 80 (24.24%) GitHub
4 73 (22.12%) GCP
5 47 (14.24%) Serverless
6 46 (13.94%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (11.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (10.91%) Entra ID
9 29 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (7.88%) PaaS
11 24 (7.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 23 (6.97%) Amazon S3
13 22 (6.67%) IaaS
14 21 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (4.85%) Azure AKS
16 16 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (4.24%) OCI
18 13 (3.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.48%) Firewall
2 21 (6.36%) Cisco Firepower
2 21 (6.36%) Cisco IOS
2 21 (6.36%) Cisco ISE
2 21 (6.36%) Junos
3 17 (5.15%) Network Security
4 11 (3.33%) VPN
5 5 (1.52%) DNS
5 5 (1.52%) NX-OS
6 3 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.91%) WAN
7 2 (0.61%) LAN
7 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.61%) SAN
7 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.30%) IPsec
8 1 (0.30%) VLAN
8 1 (0.30%) VRRP
8 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.79%) NoSQL
2 23 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.73%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.42%) Power BI
5 6 (1.82%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.21%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.61%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.61%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.61%) OLAP
9 2 (0.61%) OLTP
9 2 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (14.24%) Jenkins
2 42 (12.73%) GitLab
3 27 (8.18%) Git
4 9 (2.73%) JIRA
5 8 (2.42%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.91%) Postman
7 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.61%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.06%) Finance
3 28 (8.48%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.18%) Banking
5 26 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.12%) Aeronautics
8 7 (2.12%) Retail
9 6 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.52%) Aviation
10 5 (1.52%) Local Government
10 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.61%) Billing
12 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Legal
12 2 (0.61%) Marketing
12 2 (0.61%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.52%) REST
2 19 (5.76%) Node.js
2 19 (5.76%) RESTful
3 17 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (4.24%) Kafka
5 11 (3.33%) React
6 10 (3.03%) ARM Templates
6 10 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (2.42%) OpenAPI
7 8 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (2.42%) SAML
7 8 (2.42%) SOAP
7 8 (2.42%) Spring
8 7 (2.12%) .NET
8 7 (2.12%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.12%) LangChain
8 7 (2.12%) OpenID
8 7 (2.12%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.82%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.82%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.97%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.61%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.42%) PKI
6 6 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.82%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.21%) Genomics
9 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.91%) Life Science
9 3 (0.91%) Replication
10 2 (0.61%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.30%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.82%) Linux
2 23 (6.97%) Windows
3 19 (5.76%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.42%) Unix
5 4 (1.21%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (42.73%) DevOps
2 138 (41.82%) CI/CD
3 128 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (19.39%) Agile
5 62 (18.79%) Containerisation
6 55 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 39 (11.82%) Microservices
8 37 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (10.61%) DevSecOps
9 35 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (10.30%) Infrastructure Automation
10 34 (10.30%) Migration
11 33 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 30 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (8.48%) AI
14 27 (8.18%) High Availability
14 27 (8.18%) Software Engineering
15 24 (7.27%) Analytics
15 24 (7.27%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 98 (29.70%) Python
2 39 (11.82%) PowerShell
3 35 (10.61%) SQL
4 24 (7.27%) Java
5 20 (6.06%) Go
6 17 (5.15%) Bicep
7 16 (4.85%) Bash
8 10 (3.03%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.82%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.52%) C#
11 4 (1.21%) BeanShell
12 3 (0.91%) Ruby
13 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.61%) Perl
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) Groovy
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (32.12%) Security Cleared
2 67 (20.30%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.61%) DV Cleared
4 34 (10.30%) Azure Certification
5 29 (8.79%) Degree
6 23 (6.97%) AWS Certification
7 19 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (5.15%) Master's Degree
9 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.42%) CISSP
11 6 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.52%) CISM
13 4 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (1.21%) CCSP
13 4 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.03%) GDPR
1 10 (3.03%) NCSC
1 10 (3.03%) NIST
2 9 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.12%) QA
4 6 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.52%) GRC
6 3 (0.91%) 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 (18.48%) Docker
2 31 (9.39%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.36%) VMware NSX
4 11 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.52%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Squid
10 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (43.64%) Terraform
2 95 (28.79%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.61%) Ansible
4 26 (7.88%) Prometheus
5 24 (7.27%) Grafana
6 21 (6.36%) vCenter Server
7 15 (4.55%) Istio
8 8 (2.42%) Argo
9 6 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.91%) Podman
11 3 (0.91%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.61%) Consul
12 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.61%) Packer
13 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.30%) Puppet
13 1 (0.30%) Salt
13 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 65 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 52 (15.76%) Google
3 22 (6.67%) Cisco
3 22 (6.67%) Juniper
4 21 (6.36%) SolarWinds
5 20 (6.06%) Splunk
6 16 (4.85%) Oracle
7 11 (3.33%) Databricks
8 9 (2.73%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.42%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.82%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.52%) Broadcom
11 5 (1.52%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.52%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.52%) VMware
12 4 (1.21%) PeopleSoft
13 3 (0.91%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.91%) Zscaler
136 Cloud Engineer jobs in England