Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Cloud Engineer
Herefordshire > Hereford

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Hereford is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hereford 5.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Herefordshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hereford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hereford. 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 Hereford with a recognized job title 14 23 19
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 77.78% 65.71% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 14
10th Percentile £320 £538 £403
25th Percentile £400 £559 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +9.30% +22.86%
75th Percentile £539 £794 £688
90th Percentile £605 £850 £764
Herefordshire median daily rate £650 £612 £525
% change year-on-year +6.21% +16.57% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 £11.92 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.99% - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £25.15 £11.92 £50.00
% change year-on-year +110.99% -76.16% -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Hereford

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 10 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hereford

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, 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 Hereford region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hereford 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 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform