Cloud Specialist Contracts in London

Cloud Specialist
England > London

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in London is £358, 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 337 376 472
Rank change year-on-year +39 +96 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 16 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.084% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.090% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £305 £500 £560
25th Percentile £320 £505 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.24% -14.58% -
75th Percentile £463 £560 £659
90th Percentile £729 £633 £684
England median daily rate £433 £534 £600
% change year-on-year -18.97% -11.05% -

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Specialist in London

Cloud Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Specialist in London

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Specialist in London

Cloud Specialist
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 Specialist 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 - 3 £313 -
North London - 1 £350 -
Cloud Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Marketing
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) Google
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) B2B
5 3 (18.75%) IBM
5 3 (18.75%) Java
5 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 3 (18.75%) Law
5 3 (18.75%) Change Management
5 3 (18.75%) Product Marketing
5 3 (18.75%) Unica
5 3 (18.75%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
5 3 (18.75%) vSphere
5 3 (18.75%) Presales
5 3 (18.75%) Campaign Management
5 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
5 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
5 3 (18.75%) Value Proposition
5 3 (18.75%) B2B Sales
5 3 (18.75%) Marketing Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team

Cloud Specialist 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Unica
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (12.50%) OCI
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (43.75%) Marketing
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Law
4 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
2 2 (12.50%) Digital Media
3 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) B2B
2 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) B2B Sales
3 3 (18.75%) Campaign Management
3 3 (18.75%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
3 3 (18.75%) Marketing Automation
3 3 (18.75%) Presales
3 3 (18.75%) Product Marketing
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) Value Proposition
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Business Strategy
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
5 1 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Pardot
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud