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 11 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
11 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 302 322
Rank change year-on-year +109 +20 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 675 219 216
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 0.79% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 0.86% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 164 137
10th Percentile £406 £402 £400
25th Percentile £455 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £564 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £693
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £551
% change year-on-year +3.25% -9.17% +0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.00 -
25th Percentile £23.20 £29.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% - -
75th Percentile £81.25 £86.25 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +71.11% - -

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 42,799 25,409 30,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.33% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,597 16,371 19,349
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,391 1,355 1,537
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.67 £14.56
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +55 297 £525 +2.44% 343
North of England +22 132 £513 +13.89% 87
South East +26 130 £538 +7.50% 67
North West +18 80 £525 +20.00% 51
Midlands +9 71 £500 -7.41% 42
Yorkshire -6 44 £450 -10.00% 28
East Midlands +16 38 £488 +2.63% 20
West Midlands -20 32 £525 -4.55% 22
East of England -14 20 £488 +0.52% 21
South West -37 17 £575 +4.55% 30
North East -43 8 £525 +14.13% 8
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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.

1 340 (50.37%) Azure
2 264 (39.11%) Terraform
3 233 (34.52%) AWS
3 233 (34.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 225 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 193 (28.59%) Security Cleared
6 180 (26.67%) DevOps
7 163 (24.15%) Kubernetes
8 161 (23.85%) Cloud Security
9 155 (22.96%) Python
10 149 (22.07%) Microsoft
11 148 (21.93%) PowerShell
12 146 (21.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 138 (20.44%) SC Cleared
14 131 (19.41%) GCP
15 123 (18.22%) Platform Engineering
16 109 (16.15%) Windows
17 87 (12.89%) Entra ID
18 86 (12.74%) AI
19 83 (12.30%) Migration
20 82 (12.15%) Agile
21 81 (12.00%) Google
22 79 (11.70%) Active Directory
22 79 (11.70%) DNS
22 79 (11.70%) Firewall
23 73 (10.81%) Linux
23 73 (10.81%) VMware
24 72 (10.67%) Bash
25 71 (10.52%) Bicep
25 71 (10.52%) DV Cleared

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 15 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.48%) Apache
3 8 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.89%) Confluence
5 3 (0.44%) IIS
5 3 (0.44%) nginx
5 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.30%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 340 (50.37%) Azure
2 233 (34.52%) AWS
3 131 (19.41%) GCP
4 87 (12.89%) Entra ID
5 67 (9.93%) GitHub
6 51 (7.56%) Serverless
7 50 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (7.11%) IaaS
9 44 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 39 (5.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 38 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (5.19%) PaaS
13 33 (4.89%) Azure AKS
14 31 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
15 29 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (4.30%) SaaS
16 28 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 28 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 79 (11.70%) DNS
1 79 (11.70%) Firewall
2 40 (5.93%) Network Security
3 33 (4.89%) VPN
4 19 (2.81%) DHCP
5 17 (2.52%) WAN
6 15 (2.22%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.78%) Internet
8 6 (0.89%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.89%) VLAN
9 5 (0.74%) LAN
9 5 (0.74%) SSL
9 5 (0.74%) VSAN
10 4 (0.59%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.59%) NGFW
10 4 (0.59%) Wireless
11 3 (0.44%) BGP
11 3 (0.44%) IPv4
11 3 (0.44%) OSPF
11 3 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.41%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.48%) BigQuery
4 10 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.19%) Oracle Exadata
6 6 (0.89%) DynamoDB
6 6 (0.89%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.74%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.44%) Flink
8 3 (0.44%) Looker
8 3 (0.44%) MySQL
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.30%) Big Data
9 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 49 (7.26%) GitLab
2 35 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 30 (4.44%) Git
4 11 (1.63%) JIRA
5 7 (1.04%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.44%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.44%) Selenium
6 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.30%) Gatling
7 2 (0.30%) JMeter
7 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.15%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.15%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.15%) JUnit
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) sqlmap
General
1 80 (11.85%) Finance
2 65 (9.63%) Social Skills
3 63 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 28 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.26%) Banking
6 9 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.04%) Legal
8 6 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.74%) Law
9 5 (0.74%) Local Government
10 4 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.44%) Digital Health
11 3 (0.44%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (0.44%) Front Office
11 3 (0.44%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.44%) Marketing
11 3 (0.44%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (39.11%) Terraform
2 19 (2.81%) REST
3 16 (2.37%) ARM Templates
4 14 (2.07%) Kafka
5 11 (1.63%) Spring
5 11 (1.63%) Spring Boot
6 10 (1.48%) OAuth
6 10 (1.48%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.04%) YAML
8 6 (0.89%) FastAPI
8 6 (0.89%) Flask
8 6 (0.89%) React
9 5 (0.74%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.74%) Keycloak
9 5 (0.74%) OpenID
10 4 (0.59%) .NET
10 4 (0.59%) Hugging Face
10 4 (0.59%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 107 (15.85%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.59%) Security Posture
3 36 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (5.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 30 (4.44%) Cloud Security Posture
6 21 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.37%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.93%) Product Ownership
12 12 (1.78%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.19%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.04%) PKI
15 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
16 4 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 109 (16.15%) Windows
2 73 (10.81%) Linux
3 59 (8.74%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.44%) CentOS
7 3 (0.44%) VMS
8 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (34.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 225 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 180 (26.67%) DevOps
4 161 (23.85%) Cloud Security
5 146 (21.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 123 (18.22%) Platform Engineering
7 86 (12.74%) AI
8 83 (12.30%) Migration
9 82 (12.15%) Agile
10 71 (10.52%) Observability
11 65 (9.63%) Containerisation
12 61 (9.04%) Technical Leadership
13 55 (8.15%) DevSecOps
14 54 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
15 53 (7.85%) Software Engineering
16 50 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
17 49 (7.26%) Change Management
18 47 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
19 45 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 155 (22.96%) Python
2 148 (21.93%) PowerShell
3 72 (10.67%) Bash
4 71 (10.52%) Bicep
5 60 (8.89%) SQL
6 35 (5.19%) Java
7 13 (1.93%) C#
8 10 (1.48%) Go
9 9 (1.33%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.44%) C
12 3 (0.44%) Groovy
12 3 (0.44%) Scala
13 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.15%) Perl
14 1 (0.15%) R
14 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 193 (28.59%) Security Cleared
2 138 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 71 (10.52%) DV Cleared
4 44 (6.52%) Azure Certification
5 42 (6.22%) AWS Certification
6 33 (4.89%) Degree
7 19 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (2.52%) CISSP
9 11 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.04%) MCSE
11 6 (0.89%) CCNP
11 6 (0.89%) CISM
12 5 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.59%) CCIE
14 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.44%) CEH
15 2 (0.30%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (1.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.48%) NIST
2 10 (1.48%) QA
3 9 (1.33%) NCSC
4 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.74%) GDPR
5 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.15%) GRC
7 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (11.70%) Active Directory
2 70 (10.37%) Docker
3 48 (7.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (4.89%) VMware ESXi
5 31 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.85%) VMware NSX
7 21 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (2.96%) vSphere
9 15 (2.22%) vCloud
10 11 (1.63%) Hyper-V
11 7 (1.04%) Squid
12 4 (0.59%) Firmware
13 3 (0.44%) Ceph
13 3 (0.44%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.44%) NFS
13 3 (0.44%) Postfix
14 2 (0.30%) KVM
14 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.15%) IAG
Systems Management
1 163 (24.15%) Kubernetes
2 48 (7.11%) Ansible
3 30 (4.44%) vCenter Server
4 26 (3.85%) SCOM
5 25 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (2.96%) Grafana
7 19 (2.81%) Progress Chef
7 19 (2.81%) Prometheus
8 14 (2.07%) Puppet
9 10 (1.48%) Istio
10 7 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.89%) Packer
12 5 (0.74%) VxRail
13 4 (0.59%) Cilium
13 4 (0.59%) Suricata
14 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.44%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.44%) vRealize
15 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.30%) SELinux
Vendors
1 149 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 81 (12.00%) Google
3 73 (10.81%) VMware
4 32 (4.74%) Oracle
5 22 (3.26%) Databricks
6 19 (2.81%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.22%) Zscaler
8 13 (1.93%) SolarWinds
9 12 (1.78%) Broadcom
10 11 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 11 (1.63%) Splunk
11 10 (1.48%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.48%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.33%) Cisco
12 9 (1.33%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.19%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.04%) New Relic
15 5 (0.74%) CyberArk
15 5 (0.74%) Fortinet
600 Cloud Engineer jobs in England