Lead Cloud Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 539 639
Rank change year-on-year +64 +100 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 10 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.008% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.009% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.77%
75th Percentile £669 - £684
90th Percentile £740 - £744
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in England

Lead Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in England

Lead 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 Lead Cloud Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 10 £650 - 3
Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) AWS
3 8 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (80.00%) PaaS
3 8 (80.00%) IaaS
3 8 (80.00%) Cloud Security
4 7 (70.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (70.00%) Snowflake
4 7 (70.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (70.00%) Problem Management
4 7 (70.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (20.00%) Bash
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Observability
7 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Aviation
7 1 (10.00%) Argo
7 1 (10.00%) Database Migration
7 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (10.00%) Bicep
7 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (80.00%) IaaS
2 8 (80.00%) PaaS
3 7 (70.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (70.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Aviation
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (80.00%) Cloud Security
3 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (70.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (70.00%) Problem Management
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Database Migration
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle