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 29 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
29 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 290 261
Rank change year-on-year +24 -29 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 331 209 318
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.79% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.84% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 134 235
10th Percentile £405 £380 £425
25th Percentile £455 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £600 £644 £638
90th Percentile £725 £698 £700
UK median daily rate £522 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £41.25 - £30.00
75th Percentile £67.81 - £61.38
90th Percentile £93.13 - £78.70
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.38%

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 30,104 24,750 34,622
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 93.03% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,189 15,273 23,378
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,859 740 1,933
10th Percentile £14.84 £15.99 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.57 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.14 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -13.33% +7.14%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +14 166 £525 -4.55% 44
North of England -28 59 £500 +15.94% 18
South East 0 44 £500 -13.04% 41
Midlands -37 38 £575 +17.95% 13
Yorkshire -25 36 £513 +24.24% 7
West Midlands -15 32 £575 -11.54% 9
North West -13 23 £444 -1.39% 10
South West -6 16 £538 -6.52% 17
East of England -9 10 £438 +6.97% 8
East Midlands -28 6 £575 +27.78% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 January 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.

1 145 (43.81%) AWS
1 145 (43.81%) Terraform
2 143 (43.20%) DevOps
3 138 (41.69%) CI/CD
4 134 (40.48%) Azure
5 129 (38.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 104 (31.42%) Security Cleared
7 99 (29.91%) Python
8 95 (28.70%) Kubernetes
9 81 (24.47%) GitHub
10 75 (22.66%) GCP
11 65 (19.64%) SC Cleared
12 64 (19.34%) Agile
12 64 (19.34%) Microsoft
13 62 (18.73%) Containerisation
14 61 (18.43%) Docker
15 55 (16.62%) Cloud Security
15 55 (16.62%) Google
16 48 (14.50%) Serverless
17 47 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
17 47 (14.20%) Jenkins
18 41 (12.39%) GitLab
19 39 (11.78%) Microservices
20 38 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
20 38 (11.48%) Entra ID
20 38 (11.48%) Linux
20 38 (11.48%) PowerShell
20 38 (11.48%) REST
21 37 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
22 36 (10.88%) Migration

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 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.21%) Apache
3 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.60%) Confluence
3 2 (0.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 145 (43.81%) AWS
2 134 (40.48%) Azure
3 81 (24.47%) GitHub
4 75 (22.66%) GCP
5 48 (14.50%) Serverless
6 47 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (11.48%) Entra ID
8 37 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (8.16%) PaaS
11 26 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (7.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 24 (7.25%) IaaS
14 22 (6.65%) Amazon S3
15 20 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (5.44%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
18 16 (4.83%) Azure AKS
19 13 (3.93%) Cloud Run
19 13 (3.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.46%) Firewall
2 21 (6.34%) Cisco Firepower
2 21 (6.34%) Cisco IOS
2 21 (6.34%) Cisco ISE
2 21 (6.34%) Junos
3 16 (4.83%) Network Security
4 10 (3.02%) VPN
5 5 (1.51%) DNS
5 5 (1.51%) NX-OS
6 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.91%) WAN
7 2 (0.60%) LAN
7 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.60%) SAN
7 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.30%) BGP
8 1 (0.30%) MPLS
8 1 (0.30%) VRRP
8 1 (0.30%) Wireless
8 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.46%) NoSQL
2 22 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.02%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.42%) Power BI
5 6 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.51%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.60%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.60%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.60%) OLAP
8 2 (0.60%) OLTP
8 2 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (14.20%) Jenkins
2 41 (12.39%) GitLab
3 28 (8.46%) Git
4 9 (2.72%) JIRA
5 8 (2.42%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.91%) Postman
7 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.60%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (16.31%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.71%) Finance
3 27 (8.16%) Banking
3 27 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.32%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.11%) Aeronautics
7 7 (2.11%) Retail
8 6 (1.81%) Local Government
8 6 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.51%) Aviation
9 5 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Billing
11 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing
11 2 (0.60%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.48%) REST
2 19 (5.74%) Node.js
2 19 (5.74%) RESTful
3 17 (5.14%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (3.93%) ARM Templates
4 13 (3.93%) Kafka
5 10 (3.02%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (3.02%) React
6 8 (2.42%) OpenAPI
6 8 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (2.42%) SAML
6 8 (2.42%) SOAP
7 7 (2.11%) .NET
7 7 (2.11%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.11%) LangChain
7 7 (2.11%) OpenID
7 7 (2.11%) Spring
8 6 (1.81%) JSON
8 6 (1.81%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.81%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.82%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.57%) Public Cloud
3 19 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.42%) PKI
6 6 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.81%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.51%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.51%) Genomics
7 5 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.21%) Life Science
9 3 (0.91%) Replication
10 2 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.48%) Linux
2 23 (6.95%) Windows
3 19 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.42%) Unix
5 4 (1.21%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (43.20%) DevOps
2 138 (41.69%) CI/CD
3 129 (38.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (19.34%) Agile
5 62 (18.73%) Containerisation
6 55 (16.62%) Cloud Security
7 39 (11.78%) Microservices
8 38 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
9 36 (10.88%) Migration
10 35 (10.57%) DevSecOps
11 34 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (10.27%) Infrastructure Automation
11 34 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (8.76%) AI
13 28 (8.46%) High Availability
13 28 (8.46%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (8.46%) Software Engineering
14 27 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (7.25%) Analytics
15 24 (7.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 99 (29.91%) Python
2 38 (11.48%) PowerShell
3 36 (10.88%) SQL
4 23 (6.95%) Java
5 20 (6.04%) Go
6 18 (5.44%) Bicep
7 16 (4.83%) Bash
8 10 (3.02%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.02%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.81%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.51%) C#
11 4 (1.21%) BeanShell
12 3 (0.91%) Ruby
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) Perl
13 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) Groovy
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (31.42%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.57%) Azure Certification
3 35 (10.57%) DV Cleared
4 30 (9.06%) Degree
5 23 (6.95%) AWS Certification
6 19 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (5.14%) Master's Degree
8 10 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.42%) CISSP
10 7 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.51%) CCSP
12 5 (1.51%) CISM
13 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.32%) NIST
2 10 (3.02%) GDPR
2 10 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.02%) NCSC
3 7 (2.11%) QA
4 6 (1.81%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.51%) GRC
6 3 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (18.43%) Docker
2 33 (9.97%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.34%) VMware NSX
4 12 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.21%) Firmware
7 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.30%) KVM
9 1 (0.30%) Squid
9 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 145 (43.81%) Terraform
2 95 (28.70%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.57%) Ansible
4 26 (7.85%) Prometheus
5 24 (7.25%) Grafana
6 21 (6.34%) vCenter Server
7 15 (4.53%) Istio
8 8 (2.42%) Argo
9 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.91%) Podman
10 3 (0.91%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.60%) Consul
11 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.60%) Packer
12 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.30%) Puppet
12 1 (0.30%) Salt
12 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.62%) Google
3 22 (6.65%) Cisco
3 22 (6.65%) Juniper
4 21 (6.34%) SolarWinds
5 20 (6.04%) Splunk
6 15 (4.53%) Oracle
7 11 (3.32%) Databricks
8 9 (2.72%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.42%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.81%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.51%) Broadcom
11 5 (1.51%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.51%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.51%) VMware
12 4 (1.21%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (1.21%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.91%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.91%) Proofpoint
126 Cloud Engineer jobs in England