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 4 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 292 268
Rank change year-on-year +30 -24 0
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 334 195 321
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.75% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 0.80% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 127 237
10th Percentile £404 £380 £413
25th Percentile £467 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £600 £648 £625
90th Percentile £725 £696 £700
UK median daily rate £524 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.77% - -
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 30,551 24,303 35,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.05% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,452 15,042 23,806
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
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 1,916 729 2,105
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.82 £21.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -1.30%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +2 167 £525 -4.55% 42
North of England -19 60 £500 +11.11% 14
South East +7 45 £500 -13.04% 35
Yorkshire -19 38 £506 +22.73% 5
Midlands -33 37 £575 +15.00% 9
West Midlands -22 32 £575 -11.54% 6
North West -14 22 £420 -6.72% 8
South West -8 16 £538 -6.52% 24
East of England -22 10 £438 +6.97% 8
East Midlands -28 5 £575 +24.32% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 149 (44.61%) AWS
2 146 (43.71%) Terraform
3 143 (42.81%) DevOps
4 140 (41.92%) CI/CD
5 134 (40.12%) Azure
6 131 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 105 (31.44%) Security Cleared
8 100 (29.94%) Python
9 95 (28.44%) Kubernetes
10 81 (24.25%) GitHub
11 75 (22.46%) GCP
12 66 (19.76%) SC Cleared
13 65 (19.46%) Agile
14 64 (19.16%) Microsoft
15 62 (18.56%) Containerisation
15 62 (18.56%) Docker
16 58 (17.37%) Cloud Security
17 53 (15.87%) Google
18 48 (14.37%) Jenkins
18 48 (14.37%) Serverless
19 46 (13.77%) GitHub Actions
20 42 (12.57%) GitLab
21 39 (11.68%) Microservices
21 39 (11.68%) PowerShell
21 39 (11.68%) REST
22 38 (11.38%) Linux
23 37 (11.08%) AWS CloudFormation
23 37 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
23 37 (11.08%) Infrastructure Automation
24 36 (10.78%) Migration

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 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.20%) Apache
3 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.60%) Confluence
4 2 (0.60%) 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 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (44.61%) AWS
2 134 (40.12%) Azure
3 81 (24.25%) GitHub
4 75 (22.46%) GCP
5 48 (14.37%) Serverless
6 46 (13.77%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (11.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (10.48%) Entra ID
9 29 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (7.78%) PaaS
11 25 (7.49%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (7.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 23 (6.89%) Amazon S3
13 22 (6.59%) IaaS
14 21 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (5.09%) Azure AKS
16 16 (4.79%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (4.49%) OCI
18 13 (3.89%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.38%) Firewall
2 21 (6.29%) Cisco Firepower
2 21 (6.29%) Cisco IOS
2 21 (6.29%) Cisco ISE
2 21 (6.29%) Junos
3 17 (5.09%) Network Security
4 11 (3.29%) VPN
5 5 (1.50%) DNS
5 5 (1.50%) NX-OS
6 3 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.90%) WAN
7 2 (0.60%) LAN
7 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.60%) SAN
7 2 (0.60%) 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 (8.68%) NoSQL
2 23 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.69%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.40%) Power BI
5 6 (1.80%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.60%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.60%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.60%) OLAP
9 2 (0.60%) OLTP
9 2 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 48 (14.37%) Jenkins
2 42 (12.57%) GitLab
3 27 (8.08%) Git
4 9 (2.69%) JIRA
5 8 (2.40%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.90%) Postman
7 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.60%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (16.77%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.17%) Finance
3 30 (8.98%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.08%) Banking
5 26 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.29%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.10%) Aeronautics
7 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.10%) Retail
8 6 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.50%) Aviation
9 5 (1.50%) Local Government
9 5 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Billing
11 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing
11 2 (0.60%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.68%) REST
2 19 (5.69%) Node.js
2 19 (5.69%) RESTful
3 17 (5.09%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (4.19%) Kafka
5 11 (3.29%) React
6 10 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (2.69%) ARM Templates
7 9 (2.69%) OpenAPI
7 9 (2.69%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (2.40%) SAML
8 8 (2.40%) SOAP
8 8 (2.40%) Spring
9 7 (2.10%) .NET
9 7 (2.10%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.10%) LangChain
9 7 (2.10%) OpenID
9 7 (2.10%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.80%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.80%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.47%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.48%) Public Cloud
3 20 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.40%) PKI
7 6 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.20%) Genomics
9 4 (1.20%) Life Science
10 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.90%) Replication
11 2 (0.60%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.30%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.38%) Linux
2 22 (6.59%) Windows
3 18 (5.39%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.40%) Unix
5 4 (1.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (42.81%) DevOps
2 140 (41.92%) CI/CD
3 131 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (19.46%) Agile
5 62 (18.56%) Containerisation
6 58 (17.37%) Cloud Security
7 39 (11.68%) Microservices
8 37 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (11.08%) Infrastructure Automation
9 36 (10.78%) Migration
9 36 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (10.48%) DevSecOps
11 32 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (8.38%) AI
13 28 (8.38%) High Availability
13 28 (8.38%) Software Engineering
14 25 (7.49%) Observability
15 24 (7.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 100 (29.94%) Python
2 39 (11.68%) PowerShell
3 36 (10.78%) SQL
4 24 (7.19%) Java
5 20 (5.99%) Go
6 17 (5.09%) Bash
6 17 (5.09%) Bicep
7 10 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.69%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.80%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.50%) C#
11 4 (1.20%) BeanShell
12 3 (0.90%) Ruby
13 2 (0.60%) Groovy
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) Perl
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (31.44%) Security Cleared
2 66 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.48%) DV Cleared
4 33 (9.88%) Azure Certification
5 28 (8.38%) Degree
6 22 (6.59%) AWS Certification
7 19 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (5.09%) Master's Degree
9 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.40%) CISSP
11 6 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.50%) CISM
13 4 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (1.20%) CCSP
13 4 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.99%) GDPR
1 10 (2.99%) NCSC
1 10 (2.99%) NIST
2 9 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.10%) QA
4 6 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.50%) GRC
6 4 (1.20%) 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 62 (18.56%) Docker
2 30 (8.98%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.29%) VMware NSX
4 11 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.50%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.20%) Firmware
8 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Squid
10 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 146 (43.71%) Terraform
2 95 (28.44%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.48%) Ansible
4 26 (7.78%) Prometheus
5 24 (7.19%) Grafana
6 21 (6.29%) vCenter Server
7 16 (4.79%) Istio
8 7 (2.10%) Argo
9 6 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.90%) Podman
11 3 (0.90%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.60%) Consul
12 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.60%) Packer
13 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.30%) Puppet
13 1 (0.30%) Salt
13 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 53 (15.87%) Google
3 22 (6.59%) Cisco
3 22 (6.59%) Juniper
4 21 (6.29%) SolarWinds
5 20 (5.99%) Splunk
6 17 (5.09%) Oracle
7 11 (3.29%) Databricks
8 9 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.40%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.80%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.50%) Broadcom
11 5 (1.50%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.50%) PeopleSoft
11 5 (1.50%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.50%) VMware
12 4 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.90%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.90%) Zscaler
118 Cloud Engineer jobs in England