Cloud Specialist Contracts in England

Cloud Specialist
UK > England

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in England is £365, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 509 614
Rank change year-on-year +62 +105 +73
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 20 24 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.066% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.071% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £310 £501 £475
25th Percentile £338 £506 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £536 £600
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% -10.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £564 £610
90th Percentile £820 £733 £681
UK median daily rate £463 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -13.95% -10.42% -0.83%

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,376 33,818 46,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.74% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,888 22,422 32,774
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 909 2,438 1,361
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.87 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.20 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.02
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -17.38% +88.21%

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Specialist in England

Cloud Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Specialist in England

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Specialist in England

Cloud Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +47 15 £350 -32.20% 18
South West +41 2 £550 -
South East +47 1 £500 -6.32% 5
Midlands +19 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Cloud Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Cloud Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 6 (30.00%) Marketing
4 5 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (20.00%) OCI
5 4 (20.00%) Oracle
5 4 (20.00%) B2B
5 4 (20.00%) Windows
5 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (15.00%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (15.00%) Product Marketing
6 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (15.00%) vSphere
6 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 3 (15.00%) Law
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Change Management
6 3 (15.00%) Firewall
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Value Proposition
6 3 (15.00%) Customer Experience
6 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team

Cloud Specialist 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (5.00%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (20.00%) OCI
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (30.00%) Marketing
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Law
5 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (10.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Migration
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) B2B
3 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.00%) B2B Sales
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (15.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Presales
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Product Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Value Proposition
5 2 (10.00%) Analytics
5 2 (10.00%) Campaign Management
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) CRM
6 1 (5.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) vSphere
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) XenApp
3 1 (5.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Pardot