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 27 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 283 315
Rank change year-on-year +65 +32 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 523 212 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 0.84% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 0.91% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 163 171
10th Percentile £406 £402 £400
25th Percentile £463 £442 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 3
10th Percentile £72.65 £44.50 -
25th Percentile £73.75 £47.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £53.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.26% +79.17% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £58.75 £32.50
90th Percentile - £61.00 -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £53.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +44.19% +79.17% -

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 40,161 23,310 34,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.25% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,642 15,281 22,628
10th Percentile £325 £294 £293
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,860 1,068 2,586
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.96 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.65
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £26.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.21% -29.33% -14.29%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +66 297 £538 +2.38% 63
North of England -26 73 £500 +8.11% 35
South East -24 69 £538 +7.50% 35
North West -30 35 £500 +24.38% 20
Midlands -40 35 £525 +7.69% 29
Yorkshire -13 31 £478 -1.92% 14
West Midlands -43 25 £525 - 16
East of England -9 22 £505 +60.32% 10
South West -28 15 £550 -2.22% 14
East Midlands -11 10 £450 -5.26% 13
North East -39 7 £525 +5.00% 1
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 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.

1 264 (50.48%) Azure
2 247 (47.23%) Terraform
3 228 (43.59%) AWS
4 206 (39.39%) CI/CD
5 195 (37.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 177 (33.84%) DevOps
7 140 (26.77%) Security Cleared
8 128 (24.47%) Python
9 118 (22.56%) Cloud Security
10 110 (21.03%) GCP
10 110 (21.03%) Kubernetes
10 110 (21.03%) SC Cleared
11 106 (20.27%) PowerShell
12 105 (20.08%) Microsoft
13 93 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
14 89 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 81 (15.49%) Migration
16 80 (15.30%) GitHub
17 79 (15.11%) Google
18 75 (14.34%) Windows
19 67 (12.81%) Agile
19 67 (12.81%) Firewall
20 62 (11.85%) AI
21 59 (11.28%) Containerisation
22 57 (10.90%) Docker
23 56 (10.71%) Serverless
24 54 (10.33%) Bash
25 53 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
26 52 (9.94%) SQL
27 51 (9.75%) Entra ID

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 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.15%) Confluence
3 5 (0.96%) Apache
3 5 (0.96%) nginx
4 3 (0.57%) IIS
4 3 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.38%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 264 (50.48%) Azure
2 228 (43.59%) AWS
3 110 (21.03%) GCP
4 80 (15.30%) GitHub
5 56 (10.71%) Serverless
6 53 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
7 51 (9.75%) Entra ID
8 41 (7.84%) IaaS
9 40 (7.65%) Azure AKS
9 40 (7.65%) PaaS
10 39 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (6.88%) Amazon S3
11 36 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (6.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 33 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (5.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (5.74%) SaaS
16 29 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (12.81%) Firewall
2 50 (9.56%) DNS
3 28 (5.35%) VPN
4 27 (5.16%) Network Security
5 13 (2.49%) WAN
6 11 (2.10%) DHCP
7 10 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.15%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.96%) Internet
9 5 (0.96%) SSL
10 4 (0.76%) BGP
10 4 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.76%) VLAN
11 3 (0.57%) IPv4
11 3 (0.57%) OSPF
11 3 (0.57%) SAN
11 3 (0.57%) SMTP
12 2 (0.38%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.53%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.15%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.57%) Big Data
9 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.57%) MySQL
9 3 (0.57%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.38%) Metadata
10 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.19%) Power BI
11 1 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (7.07%) GitLab
1 37 (7.07%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.88%) Git
3 11 (2.10%) JIRA
4 9 (1.72%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.57%) Selenium
5 3 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.38%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.19%) Gatling
7 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 61 (11.66%) Social Skills
2 58 (11.09%) Finance
3 43 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 24 (4.59%) Banking
5 18 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.15%) Legal
9 5 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.76%) Law
10 4 (0.76%) Military
10 4 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.57%) Local Government
11 3 (0.57%) Marketing
11 3 (0.57%) Retail
12 2 (0.38%) International Banking
12 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.82%) REST
2 12 (2.29%) OAuth
2 12 (2.29%) OAuth2
3 9 (1.72%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.72%) Kafka
3 9 (1.72%) Spring
3 9 (1.72%) Spring Boot
4 8 (1.53%) Node.js
5 7 (1.34%) .NET
5 7 (1.34%) OpenID
5 7 (1.34%) React
6 6 (1.15%) YAML
7 5 (0.96%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (0.96%) Playwright
8 4 (0.76%) AWS CDK
8 4 (0.76%) Express.js
8 4 (0.76%) FastAPI
8 4 (0.76%) Flask
8 4 (0.76%) Jest
9 3 (0.57%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 100 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (5.16%) Public Cloud
4 26 (4.97%) Security Posture
5 19 (3.63%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.87%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.10%) Cloud Security Posture
8 11 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.53%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.76%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 75 (14.34%) Windows
2 47 (8.99%) Linux
3 41 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.53%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.57%) CentOS
8 2 (0.38%) VMS
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 195 (37.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 177 (33.84%) DevOps
4 118 (22.56%) Cloud Security
5 93 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
6 89 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 81 (15.49%) Migration
8 67 (12.81%) Agile
9 62 (11.85%) AI
10 59 (11.28%) Containerisation
11 44 (8.41%) Observability
12 43 (8.22%) Infrastructure Automation
13 42 (8.03%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (8.03%) Software Engineering
14 40 (7.65%) Technical Leadership
15 39 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (7.07%) Cybersecurity
17 35 (6.69%) DevSecOps
18 30 (5.74%) Deployment Automation
19 29 (5.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 128 (24.47%) Python
2 106 (20.27%) PowerShell
3 54 (10.33%) Bash
4 52 (9.94%) SQL
5 39 (7.46%) Bicep
6 29 (5.54%) Java
7 16 (3.06%) C#
8 10 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.72%) Go
9 9 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.96%) Groovy
11 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.19%) C
12 1 (0.19%) Cypher
12 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.19%) Perl
12 1 (0.19%) R
12 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 140 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 110 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.60%) Azure Certification
4 37 (7.07%) DV Cleared
5 29 (5.54%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.44%) Degree
7 12 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.29%) CISSP
7 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.15%) CCNP
11 5 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.76%) CCIE
12 4 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.57%) CCSP
13 3 (0.57%) MCSE
14 2 (0.38%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.29%) NIST
2 10 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.72%) QA
4 8 (1.53%) NCSC
5 7 (1.34%) GDPR
6 6 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.38%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (10.90%) Docker
2 43 (8.22%) Active Directory
3 23 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (3.44%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (3.44%) VMware NSX
6 15 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (2.68%) vSphere
8 11 (2.10%) vCloud
9 9 (1.72%) Hyper-V
10 7 (1.34%) Squid
11 4 (0.76%) Firmware
12 3 (0.57%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.57%) Postfix
13 2 (0.38%) Ceph
13 2 (0.38%) KVM
13 2 (0.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 247 (47.23%) Terraform
2 110 (21.03%) Kubernetes
3 40 (7.65%) Ansible
4 19 (3.63%) Grafana
5 18 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.87%) vCenter Server
7 14 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (2.49%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.49%) SCOM
9 12 (2.29%) Puppet
9 12 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.72%) Istio
10 9 (1.72%) Packer
11 4 (0.76%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.76%) Salt
11 4 (0.76%) Suricata
12 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.57%) vRealize
13 2 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.38%) SELinux
Vendors
1 105 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 79 (15.11%) Google
3 38 (7.27%) VMware
4 22 (4.21%) Oracle
5 15 (2.87%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.87%) Zscaler
6 12 (2.29%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.72%) Cisco
8 9 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.34%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.15%) Splunk
11 5 (0.96%) Citrix
11 5 (0.96%) Databricks
11 5 (0.96%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.76%) Juniper
12 4 (0.76%) PeopleSoft
176 Cloud Engineer jobs in England