Cloud Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 318 279
Rank change year-on-year +33 -39 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 219 243 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.65% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.70% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 172 319
10th Percentile £402 £400 £420
25th Percentile £425 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £638 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £44.50 - -
25th Percentile £47.50 £27.50 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +79.17% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £32.50 -
90th Percentile £61.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year +79.17% - -

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 23,802 34,689 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.93% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,558 22,690 31,723
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 2,587 1,360
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.87 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.80 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

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 2 July 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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 +21 127 £525 -8.30% 377
South East +67 32 £500 - 139
North of England +14 30 £463 -9.31% 129
North West +13 16 £402 -21.18% 65
Midlands +9 15 £475 -9.09% 83
North East - 10 £500 - 10
East Midlands +7 9 £475 +33.43% 32
South West +18 7 £563 -2.17% 70
West Midlands +9 6 £525 -19.23% 51
East of England +24 4 £315 -33.68% 65
Yorkshire -10 4 £488 -18.75% 54
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, 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.

1 125 (57.08%) Azure
2 111 (50.68%) AWS
3 105 (47.95%) DevOps
4 101 (46.12%) CI/CD
5 95 (43.38%) Terraform
6 81 (36.99%) Python
7 71 (32.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (31.51%) Kubernetes
9 57 (26.03%) Social Skills
10 49 (22.37%) Cloud Security
11 48 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (20.55%) Docker
13 43 (19.63%) Finance
14 42 (19.18%) Microsoft
14 42 (19.18%) Jenkins
15 41 (18.72%) Security Cleared
16 39 (17.81%) GitHub
17 38 (17.35%) GCP
18 37 (16.89%) Bash
19 36 (16.44%) SC Cleared
20 34 (15.53%) Migration
21 32 (14.61%) Linux
21 32 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
22 30 (13.70%) Windows
22 30 (13.70%) SQL
22 30 (13.70%) Firewall
22 30 (13.70%) PowerShell
22 30 (13.70%) Containerisation
23 27 (12.33%) Agile
24 26 (11.87%) Ansible

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 12 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.28%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.37%) Apache
4 3 (1.37%) JBoss
4 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.91%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.46%) IIS
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.91%) Magento
2 2 (0.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 125 (57.08%) Azure
2 111 (50.68%) AWS
3 39 (17.81%) GitHub
4 38 (17.35%) GCP
5 25 (11.42%) Entra ID
5 25 (11.42%) Serverless
6 24 (10.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.85%) IaaS
12 13 (5.94%) Amazon S3
13 12 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (5.02%) Power Platform
15 10 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (4.11%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (4.11%) PaaS
17 8 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (13.70%) Firewall
2 20 (9.13%) VPN
3 18 (8.22%) DNS
4 10 (4.57%) Network Security
5 6 (2.74%) WAN
6 5 (2.28%) MPLS
7 4 (1.83%) VSAN
8 3 (1.37%) BGP
8 3 (1.37%) OSPF
8 3 (1.37%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.91%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.91%) IPv6
9 2 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.91%) SAN
9 2 (0.91%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (0.91%) TACACS
10 1 (0.46%) 4G
10 1 (0.46%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.85%) NoSQL
2 12 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.11%) Power BI
5 8 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (3.65%) BigQuery
6 7 (3.20%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.20%) Looker
7 6 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.74%) Tableau
8 5 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.28%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.28%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.46%) MySQL
12 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (19.18%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.50%) GitLab
3 12 (5.48%) JIRA
4 9 (4.11%) Git
5 7 (3.20%) Liquibase
6 6 (2.74%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (1.37%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.37%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.46%) Locust
8 1 (0.46%) MLflow
8 1 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 57 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.63%) Finance
3 32 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.76%) Banking
5 11 (5.02%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.02%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.20%) Law
7 6 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.83%) Marketing
9 3 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Aviation
11 1 (0.46%) Electronics
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.39%) Kafka
2 9 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (2.74%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.83%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.37%) .NET
5 3 (1.37%) NumPy
5 3 (1.37%) OAuth
5 3 (1.37%) Pandas
5 3 (1.37%) PySpark
5 3 (1.37%) RESTful
5 3 (1.37%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.37%) YAML
6 2 (0.91%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.91%) Node.js
6 2 (0.91%) React
6 2 (0.91%) REST
6 2 (0.91%) SAML
6 2 (0.91%) Spring
7 1 (0.46%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (5.48%) Public Cloud
3 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.65%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.28%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.37%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.91%) Clustering
8 2 (0.91%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.91%) Replication
9 1 (0.46%) BYOD
9 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.46%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.61%) Linux
2 30 (13.70%) Windows
3 15 (6.85%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.83%) VMS
6 2 (0.91%) CentOS
6 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.46%) Unix
7 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (47.95%) DevOps
2 101 (46.12%) CI/CD
3 71 (32.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (22.37%) Cloud Security
5 48 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (15.53%) Migration
7 30 (13.70%) Containerisation
8 27 (12.33%) Agile
9 24 (10.96%) Infrastructure Automation
10 23 (10.50%) High Availability
11 18 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (7.31%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (6.85%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (6.85%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (6.39%) ETL
15 13 (5.94%) Analytics
15 13 (5.94%) Data Engineering
15 13 (5.94%) Mentoring
16 12 (5.48%) Identity Access Management
16 12 (5.48%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.99%) Python
2 37 (16.89%) Bash
3 30 (13.70%) PowerShell
3 30 (13.70%) SQL
4 18 (8.22%) Java
5 12 (5.48%) Go
6 10 (4.57%) Perl
7 9 (4.11%) Bicep
8 4 (1.83%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.83%) Scala
9 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.91%) Ruby
11 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.46%) C
11 1 (0.46%) C#
11 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.46%) PHP
11 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (18.72%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.50%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.59%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (4.57%) Degree
6 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.83%) CCIE
9 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.46%) CCNP
10 1 (0.46%) CCSP
10 1 (0.46%) CISSP
10 1 (0.46%) OCP
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.57%) GDPR
2 8 (3.65%) NIST
3 7 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.20%) QA
4 6 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.74%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.46%) GxP
6 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (20.55%) Docker
2 20 (9.13%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.48%) vSphere
4 8 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.91%) Ceph
6 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.91%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.46%) iptables
Systems Management
1 95 (43.38%) Terraform
2 69 (31.51%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.87%) Ansible
4 7 (3.20%) Puppet
5 6 (2.74%) Grafana
5 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.28%) Argo
6 5 (2.28%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.37%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.37%) Kibana
7 3 (1.37%) Nessus
7 3 (1.37%) QRadar
8 2 (0.91%) Cilium
9 1 (0.46%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.46%) Packer
9 1 (0.46%) SCCM
9 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.31%) Google
3 15 (6.85%) Zscaler
4 10 (4.57%) Cisco
5 9 (4.11%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.20%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.20%) Splunk
7 6 (2.74%) CheckPoint
7 6 (2.74%) Citrix
7 6 (2.74%) Darktrace
7 6 (2.74%) SAP
7 6 (2.74%) VMware
8 5 (2.28%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.83%) F5
10 3 (1.37%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.37%) Databricks
10 3 (1.37%) Oracle
10 3 (1.37%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.37%) Qualys
10 3 (1.37%) Salesforce