Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 June 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
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 517 596
Rank change year-on-year +45 +79 +106
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 27 28 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.075% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.081% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 28
10th Percentile £402 £469 £534
25th Percentile £413 £475 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £783
90th Percentile £700 £652 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £645
% change year-on-year -4.55% -14.73% +9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 23,430 34,648 44,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.87% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,353 22,650 31,596
10th Percentile £293 £295 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 2,591 1,341
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% -10.11% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.54 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.81
% change year-on-year -28.00% -14.39% +71.78%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +46 20 £550 - 13
East Midlands - 2 £534 - 1
Midlands - 2 £534 - 3
South East - 2 £402 - 7
South West +38 1 £550 +10.00% 6
North of England +10 1 - - 10
North East - 1 - -
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 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 20 (74.07%) AWS
2 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
3 15 (55.56%) Terraform
3 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 15 (55.56%) Azure
4 14 (51.85%) Python
5 13 (48.15%) Kubernetes
6 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
7 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (37.04%) Docker
8 10 (37.04%) Jenkins
9 8 (29.63%) AWS Certification
10 7 (25.93%) Mentoring
10 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (25.93%) GitHub
10 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
10 7 (25.93%) Serverless
10 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
11 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (22.22%) Migration
11 6 (22.22%) Linux
12 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
12 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (18.52%) Data Science
12 5 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
12 5 (18.52%) Azure Certification
12 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security

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 (3.70%) Jupyter
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) AWS
2 15 (55.56%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) GitHub
3 7 (25.93%) Serverless
4 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
7 3 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (11.11%) Azure Batch
7 3 (11.11%) GCP
8 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) BGP
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) IGRP
2 1 (3.70%) OSPF
2 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Big Data
2 1 (3.70%) Data Hub
2 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Kafka
2 3 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.41%) OAuth
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.70%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.70%) Jinja
4 1 (3.70%) JWT
4 1 (3.70%) LangChain
4 1 (3.70%) NumPy
4 1 (3.70%) OpenID
4 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.70%) Pandas
4 1 (3.70%) pydantic
4 1 (3.70%) pytest
4 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.70%) RESTful
4 1 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) BYOD
4 1 (3.70%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) CentOS
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Automation
5 7 (25.93%) Mentoring
6 6 (22.22%) Migration
7 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
7 5 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (18.52%) Data Science
8 4 (14.81%) Agile
8 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (14.81%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (14.81%) Data Security
8 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
9 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
9 3 (11.11%) ETL
9 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 3 (11.11%) Bicep
4 3 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) Scala
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) AWS Certification
2 5 (18.52%) Azure Certification
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.11%) Degree
5 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (55.56%) Terraform
2 13 (48.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.81%) Ansible
4 3 (11.11%) Puppet
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) Confluent
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.70%) Sage