Cloud Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 280 247
Rank change year-on-year -27 -33 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 233 457 799
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.94% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.00% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 331 538
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £468 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +11.38%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £713 £758
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £87.88 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £88.44 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £96.25 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -68.83% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £32.50 £103.44 -
90th Percentile - £103.63 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £45.14
% change year-on-year -68.42% +110.46% -16.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 20 May 2024. 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 +2 133 £575 +1.55% 63
North of England +8 25 £511 +1.24% 37
South West -4 25 £500 -16.67% 27
South East -4 21 £534 -0.70% 37
Midlands +4 14 £474 -11.86% 22
North West -8 14 £510 +2.00% 14
Yorkshire +21 11 £588 +2.17% 19
West Midlands +9 9 £650 +8.33% 9
East Midlands +16 5 £356 -17.93% 13
East of England -8 1 £475 -5.00% 15
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 134 (57.51%) Azure
2 116 (49.79%) AWS
3 96 (41.20%) Terraform
4 82 (35.19%) DevOps
5 81 (34.76%) Python
6 73 (31.33%) CI/CD
7 60 (25.75%) Kubernetes
8 58 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (22.75%) Social Skills
10 50 (21.46%) Microsoft
11 48 (20.60%) Docker
12 45 (19.31%) Windows
13 41 (17.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 41 (17.60%) Security Cleared
14 39 (16.74%) Agile
15 38 (16.31%) Active Directory
15 38 (16.31%) GCP
16 37 (15.88%) Azure Certification
17 36 (15.45%) PowerShell
18 35 (15.02%) Finance
19 34 (14.59%) SQL
19 34 (14.59%) SC Cleared
20 33 (14.16%) Cloud Security
21 31 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
21 31 (13.30%) Linux
21 31 (13.30%) VMware
22 30 (12.88%) Migration
23 29 (12.45%) Serverless
23 29 (12.45%) DevSecOps
24 27 (11.59%) Git

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.29%) Apache
2 8 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.15%) JBoss
5 4 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.86%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.86%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) Confluence
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 134 (57.51%) Azure
2 116 (49.79%) AWS
3 38 (16.31%) GCP
4 31 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (12.45%) Serverless
6 26 (11.16%) GitHub
7 24 (10.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (9.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (8.58%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (8.58%) Entra ID
11 18 (7.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (7.73%) PaaS
12 17 (7.30%) Amazon S3
13 14 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (6.01%) IaaS
14 13 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (4.29%) CloudFront
15 10 (4.29%) Snowflake
16 9 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.16%) DNS
2 23 (9.87%) Firewall
3 14 (6.01%) VPN
4 12 (5.15%) Network Security
5 9 (3.86%) DHCP
6 7 (3.00%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.00%) MPLS
6 7 (3.00%) WAN
7 6 (2.58%) BGP
7 6 (2.58%) IPv4
7 6 (2.58%) LAN
7 6 (2.58%) VLAN
8 5 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.15%) FTP
8 5 (2.15%) IPv6
8 5 (2.15%) OSPF
9 4 (1.72%) EIGRP
9 4 (1.72%) HSRP
9 4 (1.72%) VXLAN
9 4 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (4.29%) Big Data
2 9 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.43%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.58%) Power BI
4 6 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.15%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.72%) MySQL
7 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.86%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.86%) Metadata
8 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (11.59%) Git
2 17 (7.30%) GitLab
2 17 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.44%) JIRA
4 8 (3.43%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.58%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (2.15%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.15%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.72%) Snyk
8 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.43%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
General
1 53 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.02%) Finance
3 16 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.72%) Banking
6 10 (4.29%) Retail
7 6 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.72%) Legal
10 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Law
11 2 (0.86%) Billing
11 2 (0.86%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.86%) Node.js
1 9 (3.86%) OAuth
2 8 (3.43%) OAuth2
3 7 (3.00%) SAML
4 6 (2.58%) JSON
5 5 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.15%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.15%) XML
6 4 (1.72%) RESTful
7 3 (1.29%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.29%) ADO
7 3 (1.29%) JDBC
7 3 (1.29%) ODBC
7 3 (1.29%) YAML
8 2 (0.86%) Django
8 2 (0.86%) HornetQ
8 2 (0.86%) Kafka
8 2 (0.86%) OpenID
8 2 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.86%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.72%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.58%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.86%) Clustering
9 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.86%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Tandem
10 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.31%) Windows
2 31 (13.30%) Linux
3 16 (6.87%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.58%) Debian
6 5 (2.15%) VMS
7 3 (1.29%) Unix
8 2 (0.86%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (35.19%) DevOps
2 73 (31.33%) CI/CD
3 58 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (17.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (16.74%) Agile
6 33 (14.16%) Cloud Security
7 30 (12.88%) Migration
8 29 (12.45%) DevSecOps
9 27 (11.59%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (10.73%) Containerisation
11 22 (9.44%) Identity Access Management
12 21 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (7.30%) Analytics
13 17 (7.30%) Task Automation
14 16 (6.87%) Deployment Automation
15 15 (6.44%) Computer Science
15 15 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
16 12 (5.15%) Application Security
16 12 (5.15%) Information Security
16 12 (5.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 81 (34.76%) Python
2 36 (15.45%) PowerShell
3 34 (14.59%) SQL
4 27 (11.59%) Bash
5 15 (6.44%) Java
6 11 (4.72%) Bicep
7 10 (4.29%) C#
8 8 (3.43%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.58%) Perl
10 4 (1.72%) Go
10 4 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.86%) Ruby
11 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.43%) C
12 1 (0.43%) C++
12 1 (0.43%) Julia
12 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.88%) Azure Certification
3 34 (14.59%) SC Cleared
4 21 (9.01%) Degree
5 18 (7.73%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.43%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.58%) CCIE
10 5 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.72%) CCNA
11 4 (1.72%) CCNP
12 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.86%) CISSP
13 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.43%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.00%) NIST
3 5 (2.15%) NCSC
4 3 (1.29%) SLA
5 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 48 (20.60%) Docker
2 38 (16.31%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.87%) Hyper-V
3 16 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.00%) vSphere
6 5 (2.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.86%) Varnish
8 2 (0.86%) vCloud
8 2 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 96 (41.20%) Terraform
2 60 (25.75%) Kubernetes
3 24 (10.30%) Ansible
4 7 (3.00%) Progress Chef
4 7 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.15%) Kibana
6 4 (1.72%) Puppet
6 4 (1.72%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.29%) Grafana
7 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.29%) SCCM
7 3 (1.29%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.86%) Argo
8 2 (0.86%) Consul
8 2 (0.86%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.86%) Rancher
8 2 (0.86%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.43%) Packer
9 1 (0.43%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 50 (21.46%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.30%) VMware
3 13 (5.58%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.58%) Splunk
4 11 (4.72%) Cisco
4 11 (4.72%) Google
5 10 (4.29%) F5
6 8 (3.43%) Informatica
7 7 (3.00%) CA
7 7 (3.00%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.58%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.58%) HP
9 5 (2.15%) Citrix
9 5 (2.15%) Oracle
9 5 (2.15%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.15%) Talend
10 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.29%) Databricks
11 3 (1.29%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.29%) Zscaler