Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in London is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 249 224
Rank change year-on-year +7 -25 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 140 126 183
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 0.83% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.89% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 71 126
10th Percentile £400 £400 £416
25th Percentile £413 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +7.73% -6.58%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £665 £740 £759
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £38.50 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £110.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £88.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

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 13,278 14,222 17,588
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 93.51% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,809 9,204 12,720
10th Percentile £340 £338 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.39 £17.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.06 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% - -
75th Percentile £56.69 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.79 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in London

Cloud Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 December 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 +3 10 £525 -12.50% 11
West London -14 6 £600 +14.29% 4
South London - 2 £481 - 2
East London - 1 - - 2
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 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 London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (47.86%) Terraform
2 66 (47.14%) AWS
3 65 (46.43%) DevOps
4 64 (45.71%) Azure
5 59 (42.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (41.43%) CI/CD
7 54 (38.57%) Python
8 41 (29.29%) Kubernetes
9 39 (27.86%) GitHub
10 32 (22.86%) GCP
11 31 (22.14%) Security Cleared
12 30 (21.43%) Microsoft
13 29 (20.71%) SC Cleared
14 28 (20.00%) Docker
15 27 (19.29%) Agile
15 27 (19.29%) Cloud Security
16 25 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (15.71%) Containerisation
18 19 (13.57%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (13.57%) Google
18 19 (13.57%) Java
18 19 (13.57%) SQL
19 18 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
20 16 (11.43%) Jenkins
20 16 (11.43%) Migration
21 15 (10.71%) Entra ID
21 15 (10.71%) Software Engineering
21 15 (10.71%) TDD
22 14 (10.00%) Analytics
22 14 (10.00%) Azure DevOps

Cloud Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.86%) Apache
2 4 (2.86%) Confluence
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.71%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 66 (47.14%) AWS
2 64 (45.71%) Azure
3 39 (27.86%) GitHub
4 32 (22.86%) GCP
5 25 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (13.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (10.71%) Entra ID
8 14 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (10.00%) IaaS
9 13 (9.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (8.57%) Amazon S3
11 11 (7.86%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (7.86%) Serverless
12 10 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (5.71%) OCI
13 8 (5.71%) PaaS
14 7 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (5.00%) Cloud Run
15 6 (4.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.57%) Firewall
1 12 (8.57%) VPN
2 6 (4.29%) Network Security
3 4 (2.86%) DNS
4 2 (1.43%) BGP
4 2 (1.43%) MPLS
4 2 (1.43%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.71%) IGRP
5 1 (0.71%) IPsec
5 1 (0.71%) LAN
5 1 (0.71%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.71%) OSPF
5 1 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.71%) VLAN
5 1 (0.71%) VRRP
5 1 (0.71%) WireGuard
5 1 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.29%) Power BI
4 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.86%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.14%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.43%) Mixpanel
7 2 (1.43%) OLAP
7 2 (1.43%) OLTP
7 2 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.57%) Git
3 7 (5.00%) GitLab
4 6 (4.29%) JIRA
4 6 (4.29%) Liquibase
5 3 (2.14%) Postman
6 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (17.86%) Finance
2 22 (15.71%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.29%) Banking
7 5 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.86%) Local Government
9 2 (1.43%) Billing
9 2 (1.43%) Law
9 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) Kafka
2 12 (8.57%) REST
3 7 (5.00%) Node.js
3 7 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (4.29%) GraphQL
4 6 (4.29%) JSON
4 6 (4.29%) OpenAPI
4 6 (4.29%) XSD
5 5 (3.57%) AWS CDK
5 5 (3.57%) FastAPI
5 5 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
5 5 (3.57%) pytest
5 5 (3.57%) SOAP
5 5 (3.57%) YAML
6 4 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.86%) React
7 3 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (2.14%) Playwright
7 3 (2.14%) RESTful
7 3 (2.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.57%) Genomics
3 5 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.86%) Life Science
5 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.14%) Replication
6 2 (1.43%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.43%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.71%) FMCG
7 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.71%) PKI
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.00%) Linux
2 12 (8.57%) Windows
3 8 (5.71%) Unix
4 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (46.43%) DevOps
2 59 (42.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (41.43%) CI/CD
4 27 (19.29%) Agile
4 27 (19.29%) Cloud Security
5 22 (15.71%) Containerisation
6 18 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (11.43%) Migration
8 15 (10.71%) Software Engineering
8 15 (10.71%) TDD
9 14 (10.00%) Analytics
9 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (8.57%) AI
10 12 (8.57%) Cloud Operations
11 11 (7.86%) Data Modelling
11 11 (7.86%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (7.86%) Test Automation
12 10 (7.14%) Observability
12 10 (7.14%) Secure Coding
13 9 (6.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (38.57%) Python
2 19 (13.57%) Java
2 19 (13.57%) SQL
3 13 (9.29%) Bash
3 13 (9.29%) Go
3 13 (9.29%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.43%) Shell Script
5 7 (5.00%) Bicep
5 7 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.29%) Perl
7 5 (3.57%) C#
8 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.43%) VB
9 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.71%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.86%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.57%) Degree
5 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.14%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.43%) CCSP
7 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) CISSP
8 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.71%) OSCP
8 1 (0.71%) SANS
8 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) NIST
2 5 (3.57%) GRC
3 4 (2.86%) GDPR
3 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.14%) NCSC
4 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 28 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.71%) KVM
5 1 (0.71%) Squid
5 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (47.86%) Terraform
2 41 (29.29%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.14%) Ansible
4 7 (5.00%) Grafana
5 6 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.14%) Argo
7 3 (2.14%) Istio
7 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.43%) Packer
8 2 (1.43%) Puppet
8 2 (1.43%) QRadar
9 1 (0.71%) Consul
9 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.71%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.57%) Google
3 9 (6.43%) Oracle
4 8 (5.71%) Databricks
5 6 (4.29%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.14%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.14%) Splunk
8 2 (1.43%) Cisco
8 2 (1.43%) Citrix
8 2 (1.43%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.43%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.43%) Juniper
8 2 (1.43%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.43%) Tenable
8 2 (1.43%) VMware
8 2 (1.43%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.71%) Ping Identity