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 9 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 295 324
Rank change year-on-year +62 +29 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 435 188 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.77% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.84% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 156 170
10th Percentile £408 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £445 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -7.30% -
75th Percentile £625 £620 £614
90th Percentile £705 £675 £689
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £57.18 - -
25th Percentile £66.06 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £74.00 - £30.00
75th Percentile £76.00 - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.25 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -68.42%

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 37,604 22,499 34,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.58% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,450 14,977 22,653
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 914 2,443
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.06 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.98 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.36 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +54.81% -18.34% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.68 £36.65
% change year-on-year +53.44% -21.76% -18.56%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +51 252 £525 +5.00% 63
North of England -27 55 £500 +2.56% 38
South East -41 48 £522 -5.09% 35
North West -17 29 £524 +30.29% 23
Midlands -48 27 £675 +38.46% 21
East of England -19 25 £500 +1.52% 7
West Midlands -40 23 £675 +14.89% 14
Yorkshire -31 22 £481 +13.24% 12
South West -20 20 £550 -4.35% 23
North East -22 4 £525 -8.70% 3
East Midlands -37 4 £418 -12.11% 7
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 209 (48.05%) Azure
2 202 (46.44%) Terraform
3 179 (41.15%) AWS
4 178 (40.92%) CI/CD
5 172 (39.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 160 (36.78%) DevOps
7 127 (29.20%) Security Cleared
8 106 (24.37%) SC Cleared
9 100 (22.99%) Kubernetes
10 96 (22.07%) GCP
11 93 (21.38%) Cloud Security
12 89 (20.46%) Python
13 84 (19.31%) GitHub
13 84 (19.31%) Microsoft
14 76 (17.47%) PowerShell
15 73 (16.78%) Google
16 66 (15.17%) Agile
16 66 (15.17%) Migration
17 59 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 57 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
19 54 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
20 52 (11.95%) Containerisation
20 52 (11.95%) Docker
21 47 (10.80%) Firewall
22 45 (10.34%) Serverless
23 43 (9.89%) AI
23 43 (9.89%) SQL
24 41 (9.43%) Azure Certification
25 40 (9.20%) DevSecOps
26 39 (8.97%) Azure DevOps

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 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.92%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.92%) Confluence
3 3 (0.69%) Apache
4 2 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) SAS
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 209 (48.05%) Azure
2 179 (41.15%) AWS
3 96 (22.07%) GCP
4 84 (19.31%) GitHub
5 54 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
6 45 (10.34%) Serverless
7 39 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (8.51%) Entra ID
8 37 (8.51%) PaaS
9 33 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (7.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 33 (7.59%) IaaS
10 32 (7.36%) Azure AKS
11 31 (7.13%) Amazon S3
12 24 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (4.60%) OCI
16 19 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (10.80%) Firewall
2 20 (4.60%) DNS
3 19 (4.37%) Network Security
4 16 (3.68%) VPN
5 6 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.69%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.69%) Junos
7 3 (0.69%) NX-OS
7 3 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.69%) SMTP
7 3 (0.69%) WAN
8 2 (0.46%) BGP
8 2 (0.46%) DHCP
8 2 (0.46%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.46%) SSL
8 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.76%) BigQuery
2 11 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (1.61%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.61%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.38%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.69%) Big Data
7 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.69%) Power BI
7 3 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.46%) OLAP
8 2 (0.46%) OLTP
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (8.28%) Jenkins
2 34 (7.82%) Git
3 32 (7.36%) GitLab
4 6 (1.38%) Artifactory
4 6 (1.38%) JIRA
5 3 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.46%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.46%) Postman
6 2 (0.46%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.46%) Selenium
6 2 (0.46%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.23%) JUnit
7 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.23%) sqlmap
General
1 53 (12.18%) Social Skills
2 47 (10.80%) Finance
3 35 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 16 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.68%) Banking
5 9 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.84%) Retail
7 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.38%) Aeronautics
8 6 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.15%) Legal
9 5 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.92%) Marketing
10 4 (0.92%) Military
11 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.46%) Law
11 2 (0.46%) Local Government
11 2 (0.46%) Police
12 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.60%) REST
2 19 (4.37%) Node.js
3 12 (2.76%) Kafka
3 12 (2.76%) Spring
4 11 (2.53%) React
4 11 (2.53%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.30%) OAuth
5 10 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (2.07%) OAuth2
6 9 (2.07%) OpenID
7 8 (1.84%) .NET
7 8 (1.84%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.38%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.38%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.38%) LangChain
8 6 (1.38%) Playwright
9 5 (1.15%) OpenAPI
9 5 (1.15%) SOAP
9 5 (1.15%) Web Services
10 4 (0.92%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.70%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 21 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.30%) Security Posture
6 8 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.84%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.92%) PKI
11 3 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.69%) Replication
12 2 (0.46%) CMDB
12 2 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.05%) Windows
2 24 (5.52%) Linux
3 18 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.46%) Unix
5 2 (0.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (40.92%) CI/CD
2 172 (39.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 160 (36.78%) DevOps
4 93 (21.38%) Cloud Security
5 66 (15.17%) Agile
5 66 (15.17%) Migration
6 59 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 57 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (11.95%) Containerisation
9 43 (9.89%) AI
10 40 (9.20%) DevSecOps
11 39 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
13 36 (8.28%) Observability
14 35 (8.05%) Software Engineering
15 34 (7.82%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
17 27 (6.21%) Mentoring
18 26 (5.98%) Microservices
19 23 (5.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (20.46%) Python
2 76 (17.47%) PowerShell
3 43 (9.89%) SQL
4 35 (8.05%) Bash
5 31 (7.13%) Bicep
6 24 (5.52%) Java
7 17 (3.91%) C#
8 10 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.61%) Go
10 6 (1.38%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.92%) Groovy
12 3 (0.69%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.46%) Ruby
13 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.23%) Cypher
14 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 127 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 106 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.43%) Azure Certification
4 19 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.22%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.22%) Degree
6 13 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.53%) CISSP
8 10 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.38%) CISM
13 5 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.92%) CCSP
15 3 (0.69%) CCNP
15 3 (0.69%) OSCP
15 3 (0.69%) SANS
16 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.30%) GDPR
1 10 (2.30%) NCSC
1 10 (2.30%) NIST
2 9 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.07%) QA
3 7 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.15%) GRC
5 2 (0.46%) SLA
5 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (11.95%) Docker
2 23 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (2.76%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.84%) vSphere
7 7 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (1.15%) Firmware
8 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.69%) vCloud
11 2 (0.46%) Squid
Systems Management
1 202 (46.44%) Terraform
2 100 (22.99%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.37%) Ansible
4 18 (4.14%) Prometheus
5 17 (3.91%) Istio
6 16 (3.68%) Grafana
7 14 (3.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.84%) Argo
8 8 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.38%) Packer
11 4 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.92%) Puppet
11 4 (0.92%) Salt
12 3 (0.69%) SCOM
13 2 (0.46%) Cilium
14 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.23%) PaperCut
14 1 (0.23%) SCCM
14 1 (0.23%) Suricata
Vendors
1 84 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 73 (16.78%) Google
3 22 (5.06%) Oracle
4 18 (4.14%) VMware
5 9 (2.07%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.84%) Cisco
6 8 (1.84%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.38%) Databricks
8 6 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.38%) Splunk
9 5 (1.15%) Citrix
9 5 (1.15%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.15%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.15%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.15%) Zscaler
10 4 (0.92%) Juniper
10 4 (0.92%) Ping Identity
10 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
183 Cloud Engineer jobs in England