Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Cloud Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 51 72
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 2 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.30% 1.91% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 2.05% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 11
10th Percentile - - £525
25th Percentile - £406 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £675
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -38.89% +31.07%
75th Percentile - £488 £700
90th Percentile - £644 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £413 £675
% change year-on-year +21.21% -38.89% +31.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 645 635 1,057
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.70% 93.38% 97.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 397 724
10th Percentile £309 £325 £302
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £651 £649 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 11
10th Percentile £21.63 £17.89 £16.50
25th Percentile £23.80 £19.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.59 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +15.39% -0.30%
75th Percentile £27.06 £46.25 £23.00
90th Percentile £28.08 £48.75 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £26.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% +31.25% -5.15%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) BigCommerce
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Magento
1 1 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Database Security
1 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) WooCommerce