Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £500, 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 461 513 616
Rank change year-on-year +52 +103 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 24 29 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.078% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.084% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 25
10th Percentile £393 £475 £546
25th Percentile £431 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £563 £669 £725
90th Percentile £650 £768 £795
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

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%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior 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 +37 18 £500 -20.63% 25
Midlands - 4 £650 - 20
North of England +16 2 £475 -20.83% 32
West Midlands - 2 £650 - 12
East Midlands - 2 £534 - 7
North East - 1 £550 - 4
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

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

1 16 (66.67%) Terraform
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 14 (58.33%) AWS
4 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
5 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 10 (41.67%) DevOps
7 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
7 9 (37.50%) Cloud Security
8 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (33.33%) DevSecOps
8 8 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
8 8 (33.33%) Docker
8 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
9 7 (29.17%) Python
10 6 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (25.00%) GitHub
10 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (20.83%) Resource Management
11 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
11 5 (20.83%) AWS Certification
11 5 (20.83%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
11 5 (20.83%) Power BI
11 5 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
11 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions

Senior 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 1 (4.17%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 14 (58.33%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) GitHub
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
5 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Batch
6 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (12.50%) Serverless
7 2 (8.33%) GCP
7 2 (8.33%) OCI
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Retail
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
2 1 (4.17%) JWT
2 1 (4.17%) LangChain
2 1 (4.17%) NumPy
2 1 (4.17%) OpenID
2 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.17%) Pandas
2 1 (4.17%) pydantic
2 1 (4.17%) pytest
2 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.17%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) BYOD
3 3 (12.50%) Hedge funds
3 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) CentOS
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 12 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) Cloud Security
5 8 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
5 8 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
7 5 (20.83%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 5 (20.83%) RBAC
7 5 (20.83%) Resource Management
7 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
8 4 (16.67%) GitOps
9 3 (12.50%) Cost Management
9 3 (12.50%) Principle of Least Privilege
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Bash
2 3 (12.50%) Bicep
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) Ruby
3 1 (4.17%) Scala
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) AWS Certification
1 5 (20.83%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (66.67%) Terraform
2 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (12.50%) Puppet
5 2 (8.33%) WSUS
6 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Ariba
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Confluent