Lead Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 515 584
Rank change year-on-year -6 +69 +191
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 3 13 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.011% 0.041% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.044% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £408 £588 £573
25th Percentile £443 £663 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £569 £713 £875
90th Percentile £610 £725 -
UK median daily rate £500 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -27.27% +1.85% -6.90%

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 25,623 29,744 38,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 93.08% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,502 18,152 26,664
10th Percentile £276 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,440 1,247 1,407
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £15.23
25th Percentile £17.32 £21.25 £19.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +67.93%
75th Percentile £50.81 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Lead Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Lead Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 October 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 +24 2 £508 -27.50%
Yorkshire -23 1 £500 +5.26% 5
North of England -27 1 £500 +5.26% 13
Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Lead Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Finance

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Cilium
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk