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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 297 309
Rank change year-on-year +45 +12 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 408 193 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 0.79% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.85% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 156 168
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £462 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £619 £625 £625
90th Percentile £705 £681 £691
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £30.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.25 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -58.90%

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 36,438 22,702 34,531
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.70% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,879 15,162 23,005
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 867 2,382
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.73 £19.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -19.08%
75th Percentile £67.36 £64.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.73% -13.00% -22.22%

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 19 April 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
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 19 April 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 +49 232 £525 - 65
North of England -41 56 £513 +13.89% 40
South East -26 42 £510 -7.27% 27
Midlands -55 28 £673 +37.95% 9
North West -28 27 £525 +16.67% 20
Yorkshire -31 27 £481 +48.08% 14
South West -7 24 £550 -4.35% 15
West Midlands -48 22 £680 +15.74% 8
East of England -17 20 £510 +3.55% 7
East Midlands -32 6 £575 +21.05% 1
North East -20 2 £525 -12.50% 6
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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.

1 191 (46.81%) Terraform
2 186 (45.59%) Azure
3 173 (42.40%) AWS
4 170 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 160 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 157 (38.48%) DevOps
7 122 (29.90%) Security Cleared
8 101 (24.75%) Kubernetes
8 101 (24.75%) SC Cleared
9 99 (24.26%) GCP
10 89 (21.81%) Python
11 85 (20.83%) Cloud Security
11 85 (20.83%) GitHub
12 79 (19.36%) Microsoft
13 78 (19.12%) Google
14 72 (17.65%) Agile
15 64 (15.69%) PowerShell
16 57 (13.97%) Docker
16 57 (13.97%) Migration
17 54 (13.24%) Containerisation
18 53 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 53 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
19 50 (12.25%) GitHub Actions
20 46 (11.27%) Serverless
21 42 (10.29%) Azure Certification
21 42 (10.29%) Firewall
22 41 (10.05%) DevSecOps
22 41 (10.05%) SQL
23 39 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
23 39 (9.56%) Jenkins

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 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.23%) Confluence
3 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.74%) Apache
4 3 (0.74%) nginx
5 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 186 (45.59%) Azure
2 173 (42.40%) AWS
3 99 (24.26%) GCP
4 85 (20.83%) GitHub
5 50 (12.25%) GitHub Actions
6 46 (11.27%) Serverless
7 38 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (9.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 36 (8.82%) Entra ID
10 34 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 33 (8.09%) PaaS
12 31 (7.60%) Amazon S3
13 30 (7.35%) Azure AKS
14 29 (7.11%) IaaS
15 25 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (4.41%) SaaS
17 18 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.29%) Firewall
2 17 (4.17%) Network Security
3 15 (3.68%) VPN
4 13 (3.19%) DNS
5 8 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (1.72%) Junos
7 6 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.23%) NX-OS
9 4 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.49%) BGP
10 2 (0.49%) DKIM
10 2 (0.49%) SMTP
10 2 (0.49%) VLAN
11 1 (0.25%) DHCP
11 1 (0.25%) HTTP
11 1 (0.25%) ICMP
11 1 (0.25%) OSPF
11 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.94%) BigQuery
2 11 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (1.72%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.47%) Power BI
5 5 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.98%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.74%) Big Data
7 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.49%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.49%) OLAP
8 2 (0.49%) OLTP
8 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (9.56%) Jenkins
2 31 (7.60%) Git
2 31 (7.60%) GitLab
3 7 (1.72%) JIRA
4 4 (0.98%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.74%) Liquibase
5 3 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.49%) Postman
6 2 (0.49%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.49%) Selenium
6 2 (0.49%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.25%) JUnit
7 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.25%) sqlmap
General
1 53 (12.99%) Social Skills
2 48 (11.76%) Finance
3 35 (8.58%) Public Sector
4 17 (4.17%) Banking
5 15 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.96%) Retail
7 7 (1.72%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.23%) Legal
10 4 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.98%) Marketing
11 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.74%) Military
12 2 (0.49%) Law
12 2 (0.49%) Local Government
12 2 (0.49%) Police
13 1 (0.25%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.64%) REST
2 22 (5.39%) Node.js
3 12 (2.94%) Kafka
4 11 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (2.70%) React
5 9 (2.21%) Spring
6 8 (1.96%) .NET
6 8 (1.96%) ARM Templates
6 8 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (1.96%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.72%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.72%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.72%) Playwright
7 7 (1.72%) SOAP
8 6 (1.47%) LangChain
8 6 (1.47%) OAuth
8 6 (1.47%) OpenID
9 5 (1.23%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (1.23%) NestJS
9 5 (1.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 77 (18.87%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.60%) Public Cloud
3 17 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.21%) Security Posture
6 8 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.23%) PKI
9 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.74%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.74%) Replication
12 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.62%) Windows
2 26 (6.37%) Linux
3 12 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.98%) Unix
4 4 (0.98%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 160 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 157 (38.48%) DevOps
4 85 (20.83%) Cloud Security
5 72 (17.65%) Agile
6 57 (13.97%) Migration
7 54 (13.24%) Containerisation
8 53 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 53 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
9 41 (10.05%) DevSecOps
10 39 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (9.31%) Observability
12 35 (8.58%) AI
13 34 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
14 33 (8.09%) Infrastructure Automation
14 33 (8.09%) Software Engineering
15 32 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (7.60%) Microservices
17 27 (6.62%) Mentoring
18 24 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (21.81%) Python
2 64 (15.69%) PowerShell
3 41 (10.05%) SQL
4 28 (6.86%) Bash
5 26 (6.37%) Bicep
5 26 (6.37%) Java
6 14 (3.43%) C#
6 14 (3.43%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.96%) Go
8 7 (1.72%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.98%) BeanShell
9 4 (0.98%) Groovy
9 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) Cypher
11 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 122 (29.90%) Security Cleared
2 101 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 42 (10.29%) Azure Certification
4 21 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.41%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.92%) Degree
7 13 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.94%) CISSP
9 10 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.72%) CISM
13 6 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.98%) CCSP
16 3 (0.74%) CCNP
16 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.74%) OSCP
16 3 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.70%) NCSC
2 10 (2.45%) GDPR
2 10 (2.45%) NIST
3 9 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.21%) QA
4 6 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.23%) GRC
6 2 (0.49%) SLA
6 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (13.97%) Docker
2 21 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (3.19%) VMware NSX
5 11 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.47%) Firmware
6 6 (1.47%) vSphere
7 4 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 191 (46.81%) Terraform
2 101 (24.75%) Kubernetes
3 22 (5.39%) Prometheus
4 21 (5.15%) Ansible
5 19 (4.66%) Istio
6 17 (4.17%) Grafana
7 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.96%) Argo
9 8 (1.96%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.72%) Packer
11 4 (0.98%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.98%) Puppet
11 4 (0.98%) Salt
12 2 (0.49%) Cilium
12 2 (0.49%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.25%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 79 (19.36%) Microsoft
2 78 (19.12%) Google
3 16 (3.92%) Oracle
4 12 (2.94%) Cisco
5 10 (2.45%) VMware
6 9 (2.21%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.21%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.21%) Splunk
7 8 (1.96%) Databricks
7 8 (1.96%) Juniper
8 7 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.72%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.23%) Broadcom
9 5 (1.23%) Citrix
9 5 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.23%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.23%) Ping Identity
9 5 (1.23%) Rapid7
10 4 (0.98%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud