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 21 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
21 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 298 326
Rank change year-on-year +92 +28 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 576 221 226
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.28% 0.81% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 0.88% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 172 160
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £625
90th Percentile £690 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 1
10th Percentile £23.20 £32.50 -
25th Percentile £71.69 £36.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.00 £32.50
90th Percentile - £59.50 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +71.11% +50.00% -

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 41,476 25,032 32,906
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.85% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,274 16,261 21,669
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,987 1,247 2,188
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.15 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.26% -35.53% -3.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.52 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £44.10 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.33% -37.13% -6.98%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +57 299 £525 - 185
North of England -13 91 £525 +16.67% 72
South East -15 90 £538 +4.88% 49
North West -15 50 £538 +26.47% 41
Midlands -13 49 £513 +7.89% 33
Yorkshire -24 34 £475 -2.56% 26
West Midlands -32 27 £525 - 21
East of England -3 22 £505 +26.25% 12
East Midlands 0 21 £450 -5.26% 12
South West -29 16 £550 -2.22% 21
North East -42 7 £525 +7.69% 5
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 295 (51.22%) Azure
2 254 (44.10%) Terraform
3 232 (40.28%) AWS
4 210 (36.46%) CI/CD
5 206 (35.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 179 (31.08%) DevOps
7 157 (27.26%) Security Cleared
8 137 (23.78%) Python
9 135 (23.44%) Cloud Security
10 128 (22.22%) PowerShell
11 123 (21.35%) GCP
11 123 (21.35%) Kubernetes
11 123 (21.35%) Microsoft
12 121 (21.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 121 (21.01%) SC Cleared
13 96 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
14 95 (16.49%) Windows
15 83 (14.41%) Google
15 83 (14.41%) Migration
16 78 (13.54%) Agile
17 70 (12.15%) GitHub
18 69 (11.98%) Firewall
19 68 (11.81%) DNS
20 67 (11.63%) AI
21 65 (11.28%) Bash
22 60 (10.42%) Containerisation
22 60 (10.42%) Linux
23 59 (10.24%) Docker
24 58 (10.07%) Active Directory
25 57 (9.90%) 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 13 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.22%) Confluence
3 6 (1.04%) Apache
4 5 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.69%) nginx
6 3 (0.52%) IIS
6 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.35%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 295 (51.22%) Azure
2 232 (40.28%) AWS
3 123 (21.35%) GCP
4 70 (12.15%) GitHub
5 56 (9.72%) Entra ID
6 55 (9.55%) Serverless
7 45 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (6.94%) Azure AKS
8 40 (6.94%) IaaS
9 39 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (6.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 35 (6.08%) PaaS
12 33 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (5.56%) Amazon S3
14 31 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
17 26 (4.51%) SaaS
18 25 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (11.98%) Firewall
2 68 (11.81%) DNS
3 34 (5.90%) VPN
4 28 (4.86%) Network Security
5 15 (2.60%) DHCP
5 15 (2.60%) WAN
6 13 (2.26%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.39%) Internet
8 6 (1.04%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.04%) VLAN
9 5 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.87%) SSL
10 4 (0.69%) BGP
10 4 (0.69%) LAN
10 4 (0.69%) SAN
10 4 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.52%) IPv4
11 3 (0.52%) OSPF
11 3 (0.52%) SMTP
11 3 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.56%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.22%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.69%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.52%) Big Data
9 3 (0.52%) MySQL
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.17%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (6.77%) GitLab
2 35 (6.08%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.03%) Git
4 12 (2.08%) JIRA
5 8 (1.39%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.52%) Selenium
6 3 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.35%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.35%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.17%) Postman
8 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 69 (11.98%) Finance
2 64 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 51 (8.85%) Public Sector
4 22 (3.82%) Banking
5 19 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 5 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.87%) Law
8 5 (0.87%) Legal
9 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.52%) Local Government
10 3 (0.52%) Military
10 3 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.52%) Retail
10 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.35%) Front Office
11 2 (0.35%) International Banking
11 2 (0.35%) Marketing
11 2 (0.35%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.65%) REST
2 12 (2.08%) OAuth
2 12 (2.08%) OAuth2
3 9 (1.56%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.56%) Spring
3 9 (1.56%) Spring Boot
4 8 (1.39%) Node.js
4 8 (1.39%) React
5 7 (1.22%) OpenID
6 6 (1.04%) YAML
7 5 (0.87%) FastAPI
7 5 (0.87%) Flask
7 5 (0.87%) Kafka
7 5 (0.87%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (0.87%) Playwright
8 4 (0.69%) AWS CDK
8 4 (0.69%) Hugging Face
8 4 (0.69%) Jest
8 4 (0.69%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 104 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.60%) Security Posture
3 35 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 21 (3.65%) Enterprise Cloud
6 18 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
8 14 (2.43%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.39%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.87%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
16 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
17 3 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
17 3 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 95 (16.49%) Windows
2 60 (10.42%) Linux
3 49 (8.51%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.52%) CentOS
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (36.46%) CI/CD
2 206 (35.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 179 (31.08%) DevOps
4 135 (23.44%) Cloud Security
5 121 (21.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 96 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 83 (14.41%) Migration
8 78 (13.54%) Agile
9 67 (11.63%) AI
10 60 (10.42%) Containerisation
11 54 (9.38%) Observability
12 47 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
13 46 (7.99%) Infrastructure Automation
13 46 (7.99%) Software Engineering
14 41 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (6.77%) DevSecOps
17 37 (6.42%) Change Management
18 35 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
19 33 (5.73%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 137 (23.78%) Python
2 128 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 65 (11.28%) Bash
4 57 (9.90%) SQL
5 52 (9.03%) Bicep
6 29 (5.03%) Java
7 16 (2.78%) C#
8 10 (1.74%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.56%) Go
9 9 (1.56%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.87%) Groovy
11 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.35%) Ruby
13 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.17%) C
13 1 (0.17%) Cypher
13 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.17%) Perl
13 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 157 (27.26%) Security Cleared
2 121 (21.01%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.68%) DV Cleared
4 46 (7.99%) Azure Certification
5 39 (6.77%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.82%) Degree
7 13 (2.26%) CISSP
7 13 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.04%) CCNP
10 6 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.69%) CCIE
11 4 (0.69%) CISM
11 4 (0.69%) MCSE
12 3 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.35%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (1.74%) QA
2 9 (1.56%) NIST
3 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.22%) NCSC
5 4 (0.69%) GDPR
6 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (10.24%) Docker
2 58 (10.07%) Active Directory
3 31 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.34%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (3.47%) VMware NSX
7 16 (2.78%) vSphere
8 13 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (2.08%) Hyper-V
9 12 (2.08%) vCloud
10 7 (1.22%) Squid
11 4 (0.69%) Firmware
12 3 (0.52%) Ceph
12 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.52%) NFS
12 3 (0.52%) Postfix
13 2 (0.35%) KVM
14 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 254 (44.10%) Terraform
2 123 (21.35%) Kubernetes
3 44 (7.64%) Ansible
4 20 (3.47%) vCenter Server
5 19 (3.30%) Grafana
5 19 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.13%) Progress Chef
6 18 (3.13%) SCOM
7 16 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (2.43%) Puppet
9 11 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.56%) Istio
11 8 (1.39%) Packer
12 4 (0.69%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.69%) Suricata
12 4 (0.69%) VxRail
13 3 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.52%) Salt
13 3 (0.52%) vRealize
14 2 (0.35%) SELinux
Vendors
1 123 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 83 (14.41%) Google
3 51 (8.85%) VMware
4 25 (4.34%) Oracle
5 17 (2.95%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.60%) Zscaler
7 12 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.91%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.56%) Cisco
9 9 (1.56%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.22%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (1.22%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.22%) Splunk
11 6 (1.04%) Databricks
11 6 (1.04%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.87%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.69%) Citrix
13 4 (0.69%) Juniper
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