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 12 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
12 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 295 318
Rank change year-on-year +84 +23 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 560 222 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 0.81% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 0.88% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 170 171
10th Percentile £400 £400 £386
25th Percentile £462 £425 £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 £690 £653 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 3
10th Percentile £23.20 £32.50 -
25th Percentile £73.75 £36.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.00 £32.50
90th Percentile - £59.50 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +71.11% +50.00% -

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 41,673 25,107 34,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.03% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,526 16,352 22,396
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,985 1,216 2,460
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.98 £17.22
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.89 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.59
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £26.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +64.15% -33.00% -8.02%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +63 302 £540 +2.86% 64
North of England -26 83 £500 +11.11% 44
South East -21 78 £538 +7.50% 47
Midlands -14 47 £513 +7.89% 25
North West -23 41 £475 +11.76% 24
Yorkshire -19 35 £475 -2.56% 14
West Midlands -40 27 £525 - 12
East of England -5 22 £505 +60.32% 8
East Midlands -5 19 £450 -5.26% 13
South West -27 16 £550 -2.22% 14
North East -36 7 £525 +5.00% 6
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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.

1 283 (50.54%) Azure
2 255 (45.54%) Terraform
3 234 (41.79%) AWS
4 214 (38.21%) CI/CD
5 201 (35.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 183 (32.68%) DevOps
7 152 (27.14%) Security Cleared
8 135 (24.11%) Python
9 127 (22.68%) Cloud Security
10 119 (21.25%) Microsoft
11 117 (20.89%) SC Cleared
12 116 (20.71%) GCP
12 116 (20.71%) Kubernetes
13 115 (20.54%) PowerShell
14 106 (18.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 98 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
16 86 (15.36%) Windows
17 83 (14.82%) Migration
18 80 (14.29%) Google
19 78 (13.93%) GitHub
20 71 (12.68%) Agile
21 67 (11.96%) AI
21 67 (11.96%) Firewall
22 62 (11.07%) Containerisation
22 62 (11.07%) DNS
23 61 (10.89%) Docker
24 59 (10.54%) Bash
25 57 (10.18%) Serverless
26 55 (9.82%) Active Directory
26 55 (9.82%) SQL

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 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.07%) Confluence
3 5 (0.89%) Apache
3 5 (0.89%) nginx
4 4 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.54%) IIS
5 3 (0.54%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.36%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 283 (50.54%) Azure
2 234 (41.79%) AWS
3 116 (20.71%) GCP
4 78 (13.93%) GitHub
5 57 (10.18%) Serverless
6 54 (9.64%) Entra ID
7 48 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (7.50%) IaaS
9 40 (7.14%) Azure AKS
9 40 (7.14%) PaaS
10 38 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (6.61%) Amazon S3
12 35 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (6.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 32 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (5.00%) SaaS
17 26 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 67 (11.96%) Firewall
2 62 (11.07%) DNS
3 31 (5.54%) VPN
4 25 (4.46%) Network Security
5 15 (2.68%) WAN
6 14 (2.50%) DHCP
7 13 (2.32%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.07%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.07%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.89%) Internet
9 5 (0.89%) SSL
9 5 (0.89%) VLAN
10 4 (0.71%) BGP
10 4 (0.71%) LAN
10 4 (0.71%) SAN
10 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.54%) IPv4
11 3 (0.54%) OSPF
11 3 (0.54%) SMTP
12 2 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (1.43%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.25%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.54%) Big Data
10 3 (0.54%) MySQL
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.36%) Metadata
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (0.36%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (6.79%) GitLab
1 38 (6.79%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.43%) Git
3 11 (1.96%) JIRA
4 9 (1.61%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.54%) Selenium
5 3 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.36%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.36%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 64 (11.43%) Finance
2 61 (10.89%) Social Skills
3 47 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 23 (4.11%) Banking
5 19 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.07%) Legal
9 5 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.89%) Law
9 5 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.71%) Military
10 4 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.54%) Local Government
11 3 (0.54%) Retail
11 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.36%) International Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.36%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.75%) REST
2 12 (2.14%) OAuth
2 12 (2.14%) OAuth2
3 9 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.61%) Spring
3 9 (1.61%) Spring Boot
4 8 (1.43%) Kafka
4 8 (1.43%) Node.js
5 7 (1.25%) .NET
5 7 (1.25%) OpenID
5 7 (1.25%) React
6 6 (1.07%) YAML
7 5 (0.89%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (0.89%) Playwright
8 4 (0.71%) AWS CDK
8 4 (0.71%) Express.js
8 4 (0.71%) FastAPI
8 4 (0.71%) Flask
8 4 (0.71%) Jest
9 3 (0.54%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 102 (18.21%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 30 (5.36%) Security Posture
4 26 (4.64%) Public Cloud
5 20 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.68%) Cloud Security Posture
6 15 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (2.32%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.32%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.25%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.89%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.71%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 86 (15.36%) Windows
2 52 (9.29%) Linux
3 47 (8.39%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.54%) CentOS
7 2 (0.36%) VMS
7 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (38.21%) CI/CD
2 201 (35.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 183 (32.68%) DevOps
4 127 (22.68%) Cloud Security
5 106 (18.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 98 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
7 83 (14.82%) Migration
8 71 (12.68%) Agile
9 67 (11.96%) AI
10 62 (11.07%) Containerisation
11 51 (9.11%) Observability
12 45 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
13 44 (7.86%) Infrastructure Automation
14 43 (7.68%) Software Engineering
15 41 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (6.96%) DevSecOps
17 38 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
18 32 (5.71%) Change Management
19 30 (5.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 135 (24.11%) Python
2 115 (20.54%) PowerShell
3 59 (10.54%) Bash
4 55 (9.82%) SQL
5 45 (8.04%) Bicep
6 29 (5.18%) Java
7 16 (2.86%) C#
8 10 (1.79%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.61%) Go
9 9 (1.61%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.07%) Groovy
11 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.36%) Ruby
11 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.18%) C
12 1 (0.18%) Cypher
12 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.18%) Perl
12 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 152 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 117 (20.89%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.21%) DV Cleared
4 44 (7.86%) Azure Certification
5 31 (5.54%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.39%) Degree
7 13 (2.32%) CISSP
8 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.07%) CCNP
12 5 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.71%) CCIE
13 4 (0.71%) MCSE
14 3 (0.54%) CCSP
14 3 (0.54%) CISM
14 3 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.14%) NIST
2 10 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (1.79%) QA
3 7 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.25%) GDPR
3 7 (1.25%) NCSC
4 6 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.36%) SLA
6 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.18%) GRC
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (10.89%) Docker
2 55 (9.82%) Active Directory
3 28 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (3.57%) VMware NSX
7 15 (2.68%) vSphere
8 14 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (2.14%) vCloud
10 11 (1.96%) Hyper-V
11 7 (1.25%) Squid
12 4 (0.71%) Firmware
13 3 (0.54%) Ceph
13 3 (0.54%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.54%) NFS
13 3 (0.54%) Postfix
14 2 (0.36%) KVM
Systems Management
1 255 (45.54%) Terraform
2 116 (20.71%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.50%) Ansible
4 21 (3.75%) Grafana
4 21 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 19 (3.39%) vCenter Server
6 17 (3.04%) SCOM
7 15 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 12 (2.14%) Puppet
9 12 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.61%) Istio
10 9 (1.61%) Packer
11 4 (0.71%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.71%) Salt
11 4 (0.71%) Suricata
11 4 (0.71%) VxRail
12 3 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.54%) vRealize
13 2 (0.36%) SELinux
Vendors
1 119 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 80 (14.29%) Google
3 48 (8.57%) VMware
4 24 (4.29%) Oracle
5 15 (2.68%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.68%) Zscaler
6 11 (1.96%) Palo Alto
6 11 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.61%) Cisco
7 9 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.43%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (1.25%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.07%) Broadcom
10 6 (1.07%) Databricks
10 6 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.07%) SolarWinds
10 6 (1.07%) Splunk
11 5 (0.89%) Citrix
11 5 (0.89%) Rapid7
192 Cloud Engineer jobs in England