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 11 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
11 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 291 306
Rank change year-on-year +72 +15 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 498 198 244
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 0.81% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 0.88% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 159 171
10th Percentile £413 £402 £400
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £625
90th Percentile £689 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.38 £42.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £47.50 £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +71.11% +50.00% -41.18%

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 39,333 22,600 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.37% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,258 14,872 22,778
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.55% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 986 2,652
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.23% -26.13% -16.67%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +60 295 £544 +8.75% 48
North of England -38 66 £505 +9.19% 26
South East -27 59 £538 +7.50% 37
North West -25 33 £500 +20.92% 20
Midlands -50 28 £525 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire -29 26 £481 -3.75% 6
West Midlands -42 23 £525 - 7
East of England -8 22 £505 +2.54% 5
South West -14 15 £550 -2.22% 25
North East -30 7 £525 +5.00%
East Midlands -29 5 £413 -13.16% 1
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 249 (50.00%) Azure
2 239 (47.99%) Terraform
3 216 (43.37%) AWS
4 203 (40.76%) CI/CD
5 192 (38.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 176 (35.34%) DevOps
7 129 (25.90%) Security Cleared
8 115 (23.09%) Python
9 111 (22.29%) Kubernetes
10 108 (21.69%) Cloud Security
11 106 (21.29%) GCP
12 102 (20.48%) SC Cleared
13 100 (20.08%) Microsoft
14 90 (18.07%) PowerShell
15 85 (17.07%) GitHub
16 82 (16.47%) Platform Engineering
17 79 (15.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 78 (15.66%) Google
18 78 (15.66%) Migration
19 65 (13.05%) Windows
20 62 (12.45%) Agile
21 61 (12.25%) Firewall
22 59 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
23 58 (11.65%) Containerisation
24 57 (11.45%) AI
24 57 (11.45%) Docker
25 53 (10.64%) Serverless
26 51 (10.24%) Bash
27 47 (9.44%) SQL
28 46 (9.24%) Observability

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 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.20%) Apache
2 6 (1.20%) Confluence
3 5 (1.00%) nginx
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.40%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
6 1 (0.20%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 249 (50.00%) Azure
2 216 (43.37%) AWS
3 106 (21.29%) GCP
4 85 (17.07%) GitHub
5 59 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (10.64%) Serverless
7 43 (8.63%) Entra ID
8 41 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (7.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 39 (7.83%) IaaS
10 38 (7.63%) PaaS
11 37 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 35 (7.03%) Amazon S3
12 35 (7.03%) Azure AKS
13 30 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (5.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 26 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (4.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (12.25%) Firewall
2 42 (8.43%) DNS
3 26 (5.22%) Network Security
4 24 (4.82%) VPN
5 8 (1.61%) WAN
6 7 (1.41%) DHCP
6 7 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.00%) SSL
8 4 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.80%) VLAN
9 3 (0.60%) Internet
9 3 (0.60%) SMTP
10 2 (0.40%) BGP
10 2 (0.40%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.40%) IPv4
10 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.40%) SAN
10 2 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.81%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.41%) BigQuery
3 10 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.00%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.60%) Big Data
8 3 (0.60%) MySQL
8 3 (0.60%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.20%) Power BI
10 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (8.23%) GitLab
2 38 (7.63%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.83%) Git
4 9 (1.81%) Artifactory
4 9 (1.81%) JIRA
5 3 (0.60%) Selenium
5 3 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.40%) Postman
6 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 60 (12.05%) Social Skills
2 52 (10.44%) Finance
3 35 (7.03%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.22%) Banking
5 19 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.61%) Retail
8 6 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.20%) Legal
8 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.80%) Law
10 4 (0.80%) Local Government
10 4 (0.80%) Marketing
10 4 (0.80%) Military
10 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.40%) International Banking
11 2 (0.40%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.82%) REST
2 14 (2.81%) Spring
2 14 (2.81%) Spring Boot
3 13 (2.61%) Node.js
4 12 (2.41%) React
5 11 (2.21%) Kafka
5 11 (2.21%) OAuth
5 11 (2.21%) OAuth2
6 8 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (1.41%) .NET
7 7 (1.41%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.41%) OpenID
8 6 (1.20%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.20%) LangChain
8 6 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.00%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (1.00%) Playwright
9 5 (1.00%) YAML
10 4 (0.80%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.80%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 98 (19.68%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 28 (5.62%) Public Cloud
3 21 (4.22%) Security Posture
4 19 (3.82%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.00%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 65 (13.05%) Windows
2 37 (7.43%) Linux
3 36 (7.23%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.60%) CentOS
6 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.40%) VMS
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (40.76%) CI/CD
2 192 (38.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 176 (35.34%) DevOps
4 108 (21.69%) Cloud Security
5 82 (16.47%) Platform Engineering
6 79 (15.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 78 (15.66%) Migration
8 62 (12.45%) Agile
9 58 (11.65%) Containerisation
10 57 (11.45%) AI
11 46 (9.24%) Observability
11 46 (9.24%) Software Engineering
12 44 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (7.83%) DevSecOps
15 39 (7.83%) Infrastructure Automation
16 36 (7.23%) Technical Leadership
17 29 (5.82%) Microservices
18 26 (5.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 115 (23.09%) Python
2 90 (18.07%) PowerShell
3 51 (10.24%) Bash
4 47 (9.44%) SQL
5 37 (7.43%) Bicep
6 29 (5.82%) Java
7 16 (3.21%) C#
8 10 (2.01%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.81%) Go
10 8 (1.61%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.00%) Groovy
12 2 (0.40%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.20%) Cypher
13 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.20%) Perl
13 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 102 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.84%) Azure Certification
4 30 (6.02%) DV Cleared
5 27 (5.42%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.61%) Degree
7 12 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.21%) CISSP
9 10 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.60%) CCNP
14 3 (0.60%) CCSP
14 3 (0.60%) CISM
15 2 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
15 2 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.41%) NIST
2 11 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.01%) NCSC
3 10 (2.01%) QA
4 9 (1.81%) GDPR
5 6 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.40%) SLA
7 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (11.45%) Docker
2 35 (7.03%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (3.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (3.21%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (3.21%) VMware NSX
6 13 (2.61%) vSphere
7 9 (1.81%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.81%) vCloud
8 7 (1.41%) Squid
9 3 (0.60%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.60%) Firmware
9 3 (0.60%) Postfix
10 2 (0.40%) Ceph
10 2 (0.40%) KVM
10 2 (0.40%) NFS
Systems Management
1 239 (47.99%) Terraform
2 111 (22.29%) Kubernetes
3 35 (7.03%) Ansible
4 18 (3.61%) Grafana
5 16 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.81%) Istio
6 14 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.61%) Progress Chef
7 13 (2.61%) vCenter Server
8 11 (2.21%) SCOM
9 10 (2.01%) Puppet
9 10 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.41%) Argo
10 7 (1.41%) Packer
11 4 (0.80%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.80%) Salt
11 4 (0.80%) Suricata
12 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.40%) Cilium
13 2 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 100 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 78 (15.66%) Google
3 34 (6.83%) VMware
4 21 (4.22%) Oracle
5 14 (2.81%) Palo Alto
6 13 (2.61%) Zscaler
7 12 (2.41%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.81%) Cisco
9 8 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.20%) Splunk
11 5 (1.00%) Citrix
11 5 (1.00%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.00%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.80%) Databricks
12 4 (0.80%) Juniper
12 4 (0.80%) PeopleSoft
136 Cloud Engineer jobs in England