Cloud Developer Contracts in London

Cloud Developer
England > London

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 349 460
Rank change year-on-year +27 +111 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 31 42 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.25% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 26
10th Percentile £373 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £363 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £608
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -19.82% +1.33%
75th Percentile £538 £576 £813
90th Percentile £575 £791 £950
England median daily rate £508 £500 £573
% change year-on-year +1.50% -12.66% -2.97%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in London

Cloud Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Developer in London

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Developer in London

Cloud Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +2 2 £375 +11.94%
Cloud Developer
England

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Developer 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 London region featuring Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 16 (51.61%) SQL
2 14 (45.16%) AWS
3 12 (38.71%) .NET
4 11 (35.48%) C#
5 10 (32.26%) PL/SQL
5 10 (32.26%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (32.26%) Finance
5 10 (32.26%) Docker
5 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
5 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (29.03%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (29.03%) RPG IV
6 9 (29.03%) Entity Framework
6 9 (29.03%) .NET Framework
6 9 (29.03%) RPG
6 9 (29.03%) Salesforce
7 8 (25.81%) Relational Database
7 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
8 7 (22.58%) Agile
9 6 (19.35%) Python
10 5 (16.13%) CSS
10 5 (16.13%) HTML
10 5 (16.13%) Marketing
10 5 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (16.13%) DevOps
10 5 (16.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (16.13%) Serverless
10 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) Serverless
3 3 (9.68%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (6.45%) Apigee
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) Datadog
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) Social Studio
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) OCI
5 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (29.03%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (25.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (6.45%) Big Data
5 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.23%) MySQL
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.23%) Jasmine
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) JUnit
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Marketing
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Banking
3 2 (6.45%) Billing
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) .NET
2 9 (29.03%) .NET Framework
2 9 (29.03%) Entity Framework
3 5 (16.13%) CSS
3 5 (16.13%) HTML
4 4 (12.90%) Node.js
5 3 (9.68%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
6 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (6.45%) REST
6 2 (6.45%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (6.45%) Vue
6 2 (6.45%) Web Services
7 1 (3.23%) SOAP
7 1 (3.23%) Spring
7 1 (3.23%) Spring Batch
7 1 (3.23%) Spring Security
7 1 (3.23%) XML
7 1 (3.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.23%) NHS
2 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (22.58%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
4 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
4 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (12.90%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
6 3 (9.68%) Analytics
6 3 (9.68%) Data Modelling
6 3 (9.68%) Kanban
6 3 (9.68%) Marketing Automation
6 3 (9.68%) Scrum
7 2 (6.45%) A/B Testing
7 2 (6.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (6.45%) Multichannel Marketing
7 2 (6.45%) Personalization
7 2 (6.45%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) SQL
2 11 (35.48%) C#
3 10 (32.26%) PL/SQL
4 9 (29.03%) RPG
4 9 (29.03%) RPG IV
5 6 (19.35%) Python
6 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (9.68%) Apex Code
7 3 (9.68%) Java
7 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
8 2 (6.45%) Scala
9 1 (3.23%) Bash
9 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Salesforce
2 5 (16.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 4 (12.90%) Splunk
4 3 (9.68%) Solace
4 3 (9.68%) TIBCO
5 2 (6.45%) Cloudera
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle