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 30 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
30 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 289 311
Rank change year-on-year +64 +22 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 475 192 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 0.80% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.87% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 156 168
10th Percentile £413 £402 £400
25th Percentile £463 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £620 £588 £625
90th Percentile £690 £644 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £61.13 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% +50.00% -68.83%
75th Percentile £76.00 £47.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £80.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% +50.00% -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 38,786 22,186 34,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.34% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,000 14,689 22,539
10th Percentile £322 £293 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,713 917 2,538
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.95 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +66 281 £525 +5.00% 85
North of England -38 61 £505 +1.00% 33
South East -33 56 £531 +6.25% 36
North West -24 33 £505 +25.62% 24
Midlands -50 23 £525 +5.00% 17
East of England -15 22 £505 +2.54% 8
Yorkshire -46 21 £481 -3.75% 7
West Midlands -55 19 £531 +1.19% 11
South West -23 18 £550 -2.22% 36
North East -25 7 £525 -4.55% 2
East Midlands -26 4 £425 -10.53% 6
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 230 (48.42%) Azure
2 221 (46.53%) Terraform
3 199 (41.89%) AWS
3 199 (41.89%) CI/CD
4 177 (37.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 172 (36.21%) DevOps
6 131 (27.58%) Security Cleared
7 107 (22.53%) Kubernetes
7 107 (22.53%) Python
8 102 (21.47%) Cloud Security
8 102 (21.47%) GCP
8 102 (21.47%) SC Cleared
9 91 (19.16%) Microsoft
10 85 (17.89%) PowerShell
11 80 (16.84%) GitHub
12 79 (16.63%) Google
13 76 (16.00%) Migration
14 70 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 68 (14.32%) Platform Engineering
16 66 (13.89%) Agile
17 58 (12.21%) Firewall
18 56 (11.79%) Docker
18 56 (11.79%) Windows
19 55 (11.58%) Containerisation
20 53 (11.16%) GitHub Actions
21 52 (10.95%) AI
22 49 (10.32%) Bash
23 48 (10.11%) Serverless
24 46 (9.68%) SQL
25 45 (9.47%) 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 (1.47%) Apache
1 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.05%) Confluence
2 5 (1.05%) nginx
3 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.63%) IIS
4 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.63%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.42%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 230 (48.42%) Azure
2 199 (41.89%) AWS
3 102 (21.47%) GCP
4 80 (16.84%) GitHub
5 53 (11.16%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (10.11%) Serverless
7 41 (8.63%) Entra ID
8 40 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (8.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 36 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (7.58%) IaaS
10 36 (7.58%) PaaS
11 34 (7.16%) Amazon S3
12 31 (6.53%) Azure AKS
13 29 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (4.84%) OCI
17 22 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (12.21%) Firewall
2 39 (8.21%) DNS
3 24 (5.05%) Network Security
4 20 (4.21%) VPN
5 7 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.47%) WAN
6 6 (1.26%) DHCP
6 6 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.05%) SSL
8 4 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.84%) VLAN
9 3 (0.63%) Internet
9 3 (0.63%) SMTP
10 2 (0.42%) BGP
10 2 (0.42%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.42%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.42%) NGFW
10 2 (0.42%) SAN
10 2 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.74%) BigQuery
2 11 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (2.32%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.68%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.05%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.63%) Big Data
7 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.63%) MySQL
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.42%) OLAP
8 2 (0.42%) OLTP
8 2 (0.42%) Power BI
8 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (8.21%) GitLab
2 36 (7.58%) Git
3 35 (7.37%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.89%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.68%) JIRA
6 3 (0.63%) Postman
6 3 (0.63%) Selenium
6 3 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.42%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.42%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.21%) Gatling
8 1 (0.21%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.21%) sqlmap
General
1 54 (11.37%) Social Skills
2 50 (10.53%) Finance
3 37 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 17 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (3.58%) Banking
5 9 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.68%) Retail
7 6 (1.26%) Legal
7 6 (1.26%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.05%) Local Government
8 5 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.84%) Marketing
9 4 (0.84%) Military
10 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.42%) Law
11 2 (0.42%) Police
12 1 (0.21%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.58%) REST
2 14 (2.95%) Spring
2 14 (2.95%) Spring Boot
3 13 (2.74%) Node.js
4 12 (2.53%) OAuth
4 12 (2.53%) React
5 11 (2.32%) Kafka
5 11 (2.32%) OAuth2
6 8 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.47%) .NET
7 7 (1.47%) OpenID
8 6 (1.26%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.26%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.26%) LangChain
9 5 (1.05%) Playwright
9 5 (1.05%) YAML
10 4 (0.84%) Express.js
10 4 (0.84%) Jest
10 4 (0.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 87 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.89%) Public Cloud
3 26 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (3.79%) Data Centre
4 18 (3.79%) Security Posture
5 10 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.26%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.05%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.84%) PKI
11 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 56 (11.79%) Windows
2 37 (7.79%) Linux
3 33 (6.95%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.63%) CentOS
6 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.42%) VMS
7 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (41.89%) CI/CD
2 177 (37.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 172 (36.21%) DevOps
4 102 (21.47%) Cloud Security
5 76 (16.00%) Migration
6 70 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 68 (14.32%) Platform Engineering
8 66 (13.89%) Agile
9 55 (11.58%) Containerisation
10 52 (10.95%) AI
11 45 (9.47%) Observability
12 42 (8.84%) Software Engineering
13 41 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (8.00%) DevSecOps
16 37 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (7.58%) Infrastructure Automation
18 34 (7.16%) Technical Leadership
19 26 (5.47%) Mentoring
19 26 (5.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (22.53%) Python
2 85 (17.89%) PowerShell
3 49 (10.32%) Bash
4 46 (9.68%) SQL
5 35 (7.37%) Bicep
6 29 (6.11%) Java
7 15 (3.16%) C#
8 9 (1.89%) Go
8 9 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.47%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.05%) Groovy
11 3 (0.63%) Ruby
12 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.21%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.21%) Cypher
13 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.21%) Perl
13 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (27.58%) Security Cleared
2 102 (21.47%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.26%) Azure Certification
4 29 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.21%) AWS Certification
5 20 (4.21%) Degree
6 12 (2.53%) CISSP
6 12 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.84%) CISM
12 3 (0.63%) CCNP
12 3 (0.63%) CCSP
13 2 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.42%) MCSE
13 2 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.32%) NIST
2 10 (2.11%) GDPR
2 10 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.11%) QA
3 9 (1.89%) NCSC
4 5 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.63%) GRC
6 2 (0.42%) SLA
6 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (11.79%) Docker
2 34 (7.16%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.37%) VMware NSX
4 15 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (2.53%) vSphere
7 8 (1.68%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.68%) vCloud
8 7 (1.47%) Squid
9 4 (0.84%) Firmware
10 3 (0.63%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.63%) Postfix
11 2 (0.42%) Ceph
11 2 (0.42%) KVM
11 2 (0.42%) NFS
Systems Management
1 221 (46.53%) Terraform
2 107 (22.53%) Kubernetes
3 30 (6.32%) Ansible
4 18 (3.79%) Grafana
5 16 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.95%) Istio
6 14 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.74%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.11%) SCOM
9 9 (1.89%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.47%) Argo
11 7 (1.47%) Packer
12 6 (1.26%) Puppet
13 4 (0.84%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.84%) Salt
13 4 (0.84%) Suricata
14 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.42%) Cilium
15 2 (0.42%) SELinux
Vendors
1 91 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 79 (16.63%) Google
3 30 (6.32%) VMware
4 24 (5.05%) Oracle
5 12 (2.53%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.53%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.32%) Zscaler
7 9 (1.89%) Cisco
8 7 (1.47%) Databricks
8 7 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.26%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.26%) Splunk
10 5 (1.05%) Citrix
10 5 (1.05%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.05%) Juniper
10 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.05%) PeopleSoft
11 4 (0.84%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
201 Cloud Engineer jobs in England