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 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 271 245
Rank change year-on-year -49 -26 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 242 503 845
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.99% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.04% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 365 553
10th Percentile £400 £413 £407
25th Percentile £463 £475 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £612 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £714 £762
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £45.50 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -68.42% +20.63% -
75th Percentile £32.50 £103.13 -
90th Percentile - £103.50 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £73.00 £45.14
% change year-on-year -58.90% +61.72% -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 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -12 134 £573 -0.43% 51
North of England +9 30 £525 +5.00% 37
South West +6 24 £500 -16.67% 25
South East -15 20 £530 -4.72% 24
North West -4 18 £510 +3.29% 18
Midlands +17 16 £536 +6.19% 29
Yorkshire +20 12 £600 +9.09% 15
West Midlands +19 10 £650 +28.71% 12
East Midlands +19 6 £356 -17.93% 17
East of England -1 1 £475 - 10
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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.

1 140 (57.85%) Azure
2 126 (52.07%) AWS
3 103 (42.56%) Terraform
4 92 (38.02%) DevOps
5 83 (34.30%) Python
6 76 (31.40%) CI/CD
7 67 (27.69%) Kubernetes
8 63 (26.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (23.14%) Microsoft
10 54 (22.31%) Social Skills
11 51 (21.07%) Windows
11 51 (21.07%) Docker
12 47 (19.42%) Agile
13 46 (19.01%) Security Cleared
14 43 (17.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 41 (16.94%) SC Cleared
16 40 (16.53%) Finance
17 39 (16.12%) PowerShell
18 38 (15.70%) Azure Certification
19 36 (14.88%) GCP
19 36 (14.88%) Active Directory
20 35 (14.46%) Linux
21 34 (14.05%) SQL
22 33 (13.64%) Cloud Security
23 32 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
23 32 (13.22%) Serverless
24 31 (12.81%) VMware
25 30 (12.40%) Migration
26 29 (11.98%) Containerisation
27 28 (11.57%) Bash

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 9 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.89%) Apache
3 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.07%) JBoss
5 2 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.83%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) Confluence
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 140 (57.85%) Azure
2 126 (52.07%) AWS
3 36 (14.88%) GCP
4 32 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (13.22%) Serverless
5 26 (10.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (10.74%) GitHub
6 25 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (8.26%) PaaS
8 19 (7.85%) Amazon S3
9 18 (7.44%) Entra ID
9 18 (7.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (6.61%) IaaS
10 16 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.96%) OpenShift
12 11 (4.55%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.74%) DNS
2 22 (9.09%) Firewall
3 11 (4.55%) Network Security
3 11 (4.55%) VPN
4 9 (3.72%) DHCP
5 6 (2.48%) BGP
5 6 (2.48%) LAN
6 5 (2.07%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (2.07%) FTP
6 5 (2.07%) HTTPS
6 5 (2.07%) IPv4
6 5 (2.07%) VLAN
7 4 (1.65%) EIGRP
7 4 (1.65%) HSRP
7 4 (1.65%) MPLS
7 4 (1.65%) OSPF
7 4 (1.65%) VXLAN
7 4 (1.65%) WAN
7 4 (1.65%) Wireless
8 3 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.13%) Big Data
1 10 (4.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.31%) BigQuery
2 8 (3.31%) Power BI
3 6 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.48%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.07%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.65%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.24%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.83%) Metadata
7 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.83%) MySQL
7 2 (0.83%) Tableau
8 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (10.74%) Git
2 20 (8.26%) GitLab
2 20 (8.26%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.44%) JIRA
4 8 (3.31%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.48%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (2.07%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.65%) Snyk
8 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.41%) Selenium
9 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 54 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.53%) Finance
3 20 (8.26%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.13%) Banking
5 10 (4.13%) Retail
6 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.07%) Legal
7 5 (2.07%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Billing
10 2 (0.83%) Local Government
10 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.72%) OAuth
2 8 (3.31%) Node.js
2 8 (3.31%) OAuth2
3 7 (2.89%) JSON
4 6 (2.48%) Kafka
4 6 (2.48%) SAML
5 5 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.07%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.07%) XML
5 5 (2.07%) YAML
6 4 (1.65%) RESTful
7 3 (1.24%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.24%) ADO
7 3 (1.24%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.24%) JDBC
7 3 (1.24%) ODBC
8 2 (0.83%) HornetQ
8 2 (0.83%) PySpark
8 2 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.83%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.37%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.13%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.89%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.24%) PKI
9 3 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.83%) Clustering
10 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Tandem
11 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.41%) IoT
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.07%) Windows
2 35 (14.46%) Linux
3 18 (7.44%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.48%) Debian
6 5 (2.07%) VMS
7 3 (1.24%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.83%) Unix
8 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (38.02%) DevOps
2 76 (31.40%) CI/CD
3 63 (26.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (19.42%) Agile
5 43 (17.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 33 (13.64%) Cloud Security
7 30 (12.40%) Migration
8 29 (11.98%) Containerisation
9 26 (10.74%) DevSecOps
9 26 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (7.85%) Analytics
10 19 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (7.44%) Identity Access Management
12 17 (7.02%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (7.02%) Information Security
13 15 (6.20%) Scrum
14 13 (5.37%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (5.37%) Microservices
15 12 (4.96%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 83 (34.30%) Python
2 39 (16.12%) PowerShell
3 34 (14.05%) SQL
4 28 (11.57%) Bash
5 19 (7.85%) Java
6 13 (5.37%) C#
7 10 (4.13%) Bicep
7 10 (4.13%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.72%) Perl
9 7 (2.89%) Go
10 6 (2.48%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.65%) C
12 3 (1.24%) C++
12 3 (1.24%) Julia
12 3 (1.24%) Ruby
13 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (19.01%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 38 (15.70%) Azure Certification
4 22 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 17 (7.02%) Degree
6 10 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.89%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.65%) CCNA
10 4 (1.65%) CCNP
11 3 (1.24%) CCIE
12 2 (0.83%) CISSP
12 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.41%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.89%) NIST
3 5 (2.07%) NCSC
4 4 (1.65%) SLA
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 51 (21.07%) Docker
2 36 (14.88%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.02%) Hyper-V
3 17 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.89%) vSphere
6 5 (2.07%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.83%) Varnish
8 2 (0.83%) vCloud
9 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 103 (42.56%) Terraform
2 67 (27.69%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.50%) Ansible
4 7 (2.89%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.07%) Kibana
6 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.65%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.24%) Argo
7 3 (1.24%) Grafana
7 3 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.24%) Puppet
7 3 (1.24%) SCCM
7 3 (1.24%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.83%) Consul
8 2 (0.83%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.83%) Rancher
8 2 (0.83%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.41%) Packer
9 1 (0.41%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 56 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.81%) VMware
3 16 (6.61%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.79%) Google
5 13 (5.37%) Splunk
6 8 (3.31%) Cisco
7 7 (2.89%) CA
7 7 (2.89%) F5
7 7 (2.89%) Informatica
8 6 (2.48%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.48%) HP
9 5 (2.07%) Oracle
9 5 (2.07%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.07%) Talend
10 4 (1.65%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.24%) Citrix
11 3 (1.24%) Databricks
11 3 (1.24%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.24%) Sage