Cloud Administrator Contract Job Trends in London

Cloud Administrator
England > London

The median Cloud Administrator daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 372 412
Rank change year-on-year -8 +40 +158
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Administrator 2 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.013% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.014% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £428 £505 £359
25th Percentile £431 £513 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £825
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -36.36% -5.71%
75th Percentile £469 £538 £863
90th Percentile £473 £545 -
England median daily rate £450 £550 £398
% change year-on-year -18.18% +38.36% -42.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,248 14,718 17,942
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 93.61% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,794 9,565 12,956
10th Percentile £338 £340 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 154 210
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £27.86 £35.75 £36.31
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% -1.53% +3.73%
75th Percentile £54.06 £53.75 £59.69
90th Percentile £74.75 £80.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.08% -16.67% +36.36%

Cloud Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cloud Administrator job vacancy trend in London

Cloud Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Administrator job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Administrator job vacancies in London

Cloud Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, Cloud Administrator 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 London region featuring Cloud Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless

Cloud Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (50.00%) Impala
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft