Cloud Engineer Contracts in Leicester

Cloud Engineer
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Leicester is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 1.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leicester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 64 115 104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 77.11% 96.64% 98.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 80 87
10th Percentile £180 £265 £279
25th Percentile £305 £323 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £499 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +17.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £475
90th Percentile £630 £628 £613
Leicestershire median daily rate £400 £400 £415
% change year-on-year - -3.61% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - £14.98 £12.98
25th Percentile - £19.81 £14.08
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £18.38
Median % change year-on-year - +36.02% +13.11%
75th Percentile - £27.81 £21.65
90th Percentile - £28.38 £22.53
Leicestershire median hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £18.38
% change year-on-year -2.00% +36.02% -0.65%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Leicester

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Leicester

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 18 June 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 Leicester region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform