Cloud Engineer Contracts in London

Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in London is £525, 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 241 258 252
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 112 134 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.75% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.81% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 89 182
10th Percentile £400 £420 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £45.50
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £103.13
90th Percentile - - £103.50
England median hourly rate - £30.00 £95.00
% change year-on-year - -68.42% +20.63%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +4 16 £600 +5.26% 11
East London - 1 - - 2
West London - 1 £800 - 3
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (56.25%) Terraform
2 60 (53.57%) Azure
3 53 (47.32%) AWS
4 51 (45.54%) DevOps
4 51 (45.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (39.29%) CI/CD
6 40 (35.71%) Python
7 33 (29.46%) Kubernetes
7 33 (29.46%) Cloud Security
8 29 (25.89%) Finance
9 26 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
10 23 (20.54%) Microsoft
11 22 (19.64%) Linux
11 22 (19.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (19.64%) Docker
12 21 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (17.86%) GitHub
14 19 (16.96%) PowerShell
15 18 (16.07%) GCP
15 18 (16.07%) Containerisation
16 17 (15.18%) Migration
17 16 (14.29%) Jenkins
18 15 (13.39%) GitLab
18 15 (13.39%) Firewall
19 14 (12.50%) Windows
19 14 (12.50%) IaaS
20 13 (11.61%) Bash
21 12 (10.71%) Ansible

Cloud Engineer 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 6 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.46%) nginx
3 3 (2.68%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) 1Password
2 1 (0.89%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 60 (53.57%) Azure
2 53 (47.32%) AWS
3 22 (19.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (17.86%) GitHub
6 18 (16.07%) GCP
7 14 (12.50%) IaaS
8 11 (9.82%) Entra ID
8 11 (9.82%) PaaS
8 11 (9.82%) Serverless
8 11 (9.82%) Snowflake
9 10 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (6.25%) SaaS
12 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
13 5 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.39%) Firewall
2 7 (6.25%) VPN
3 5 (4.46%) HTTP
3 5 (4.46%) Network Security
3 5 (4.46%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (4.46%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.68%) DNS
5 2 (1.79%) VSAN
6 1 (0.89%) BGP
6 1 (0.89%) Internet
6 1 (0.89%) LAN
6 1 (0.89%) MPLS
6 1 (0.89%) OSPF
6 1 (0.89%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.89%) SMS
6 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.89%) WAN
6 1 (0.89%) Wireless
6 1 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (5.36%) Apache Hive
5 5 (4.46%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (4.46%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.46%) Parquet
5 5 (4.46%) Power BI
5 5 (4.46%) Presto
6 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.68%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.89%) Big Data
9 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.89%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.39%) GitLab
3 8 (7.14%) Git
4 5 (4.46%) Poetry
5 1 (0.89%) JIRA
5 1 (0.89%) Locust
5 1 (0.89%) MLflow
5 1 (0.89%) Postman
5 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (25.89%) Finance
2 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.14%) Banking
3 8 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.46%) Financial Institution
4 5 (4.46%) Law
5 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Marketing
6 3 (2.68%) Local Government
6 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Aviation
8 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) Dask
1 5 (4.46%) LAPP Stack
1 5 (4.46%) React
2 3 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.79%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.79%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.79%) OAuth
3 2 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (0.89%) CSS
4 1 (0.89%) HTML
4 1 (0.89%) Kafka
4 1 (0.89%) Middleware
4 1 (0.89%) Node.js
4 1 (0.89%) NumPy
4 1 (0.89%) OpenID
4 1 (0.89%) Pandas
4 1 (0.89%) pytest
4 1 (0.89%) RESTful
4 1 (0.89%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.89%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Private Cloud
2 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.46%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.68%) BYOD
5 3 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.68%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.79%) Clustering
7 1 (0.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.89%) Life Science
7 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.64%) Linux
2 14 (12.50%) Windows
3 10 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.79%) CentOS
5 2 (1.79%) VMS
5 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.54%) DevOps
1 51 (45.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 44 (39.29%) CI/CD
3 33 (29.46%) Cloud Security
4 26 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
6 18 (16.07%) Containerisation
7 17 (15.18%) Migration
8 10 (8.93%) DevSecOps
8 10 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (8.04%) Problem Management
10 8 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (7.14%) Cost Optimisation
10 8 (7.14%) Data Science
10 8 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
10 8 (7.14%) RBAC
11 7 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.71%) Python
2 19 (16.96%) PowerShell
3 13 (11.61%) Bash
4 10 (8.93%) SQL
5 7 (6.25%) Bicep
6 5 (4.46%) Java
6 5 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.89%) C
7 1 (0.89%) C#
7 1 (0.89%) Go
7 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (9.82%) Azure Certification
2 9 (8.04%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.46%) Degree
5 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.89%) CCNP
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.89%) OCP
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) GDPR
1 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.79%) NIST
2 1 (0.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.89%) GxP
2 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 22 (19.64%) Docker
2 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.25%) vSphere
3 5 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 63 (56.25%) Terraform
2 33 (29.46%) Kubernetes
3 12 (10.71%) Ansible
4 4 (3.57%) Puppet
5 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.79%) Argo
6 2 (1.79%) Grafana
6 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.79%) SCCM
6 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.89%) CASB
7 1 (0.89%) Cilium
7 1 (0.89%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.04%) VMware
3 8 (7.14%) Google
4 4 (3.57%) Cisco
4 4 (3.57%) Citrix
4 4 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.68%) CheckPoint
5 3 (2.68%) Netskope
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle
5 3 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.79%) Adobe
6 2 (1.79%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (1.79%) Datto
6 2 (1.79%) Ericsson
6 2 (1.79%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.79%) Freshdesk
6 2 (1.79%) Nokia
6 2 (1.79%) Splunk
6 2 (1.79%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.89%) SolarWinds