The median contractor rate for a Cloud Engineer was £550 per day in advertised job vacancies in England during the 6 months to 28 October 2021.
The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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
63,903
25,819
72,614
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title
93.45%
92.60%
94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted
45,118
17,783
49,269
10th Percentile
£300
£263
£263
25th Percentile
£408
£363
£363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£509
£475
£475
Median % change year-on-year
+7.16%
-
+5.56%
75th Percentile
£613
£575
£575
90th Percentile
£700
£675
£650
UK median daily rate
£500
£475
£463
% change year-on-year
+5.26%
+2.70%
+2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted
1,867
841
2,405
10th Percentile
£12.00
£11.17
£11.17
25th Percentile
£13.74
£14.00
£13.75
Median hourly rate
£19.52
£22.00
£18.70
Median % change year-on-year
-11.27%
+17.65%
+6.86%
75th Percentile
£45.00
£43.75
£43.75
90th Percentile
£62.15
£53.75
£52.50
UK median hourly rate
£20.00
£22.00
£19.00
% change year-on-year
-9.09%
+15.79%
+8.57%
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.
Cloud Engineer Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 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 28 October 2021.
Cloud Engineer Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 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 28 October 2021.
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 28 October 2021. 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
Cloud Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England
For the 6 months to 28 October 2021, Cloud Engineer contract jobs required the following IT skills 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.
Cloud Engineer Skill Set Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
