Cloud Network Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Network Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 517 618
Rank change year-on-year +18 +101 +173
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Cloud Network Engineer 12 16 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.048% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.052% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 6
10th Percentile - £406 £475
25th Percentile - £408 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% +5.26%
75th Percentile £531 £614 £644
90th Percentile £625 £773 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -12.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,261 30,872 41,283
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 92.97% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,295 19,926 29,049
10th Percentile £281 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,382 1,691 1,334
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.16 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.34 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +2.63% +68.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.73 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.44% +67.81%

Cloud Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Network Engineer in England

Cloud Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Network Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Network Engineer job vacancies in England

Cloud Network Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +21 9 £500 -4.76% 3
London +23 1 - -
Cloud Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 2025, Cloud Network 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
2 5 (41.67%) vCenter Server
2 5 (41.67%) VMware NSX
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) Junos
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (41.67%) Service Management
2 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) ITSM
2 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Juniper
3 4 (33.33%) WAN
4 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (25.00%) SAN
4 3 (25.00%) Firewall
4 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) Network Design
4 3 (25.00%) Service Design
4 3 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps

Cloud Network 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco ISE
1 5 (41.67%) Junos
2 4 (33.33%) WAN
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 3 (25.00%) SAN
3 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) MPLS
4 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (8.33%) BGP
5 1 (8.33%) DNS
5 1 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (8.33%) IPv6
5 1 (8.33%) OSPF
5 1 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (8.33%) TACACS
5 1 (8.33%) VSAN
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ITSM
1 5 (41.67%) Service Management
2 3 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 3 (25.00%) Network Design
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) Service Design
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
4 1 (8.33%) Change Management
4 1 (8.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CCIE
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Juniper
2 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
3 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 2 (16.67%) Citrix
4 2 (16.67%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Zscaler
5 1 (8.33%) Dell
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft