Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in London is £630 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 476 530
Rank change year-on-year +106 +54 -91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 19 24 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.088% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.093% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 55
10th Percentile £469 £548 £475
25th Percentile £525 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +2.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £768 £783 £700
90th Percentile - £810 £770
England median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate - - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +37 5 £775 +29.17% 1
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 14 (73.68%) Python
2 14 (73.68%) Terraform
3 10 (52.63%) Azure
3 10 (52.63%) DevOps
4 9 (47.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
6 7 (36.84%) Docker
6 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
6 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 7 (36.84%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
7 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
7 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (26.32%) Serverless
8 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
8 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
8 5 (26.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (26.32%) Windows
8 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
9 4 (21.05%) DNS
9 4 (21.05%) Firewall
9 4 (21.05%) Git
9 4 (21.05%) Agile
9 4 (21.05%) GitHub
9 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification

Senior 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 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Azure
3 9 (47.37%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (26.32%) Serverless
5 5 (26.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (21.05%) GitHub
6 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (15.79%) Azure AKS
7 3 (15.79%) OCI
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) DNS
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) BGP
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (15.79%) DHCP
2 3 (15.79%) EIGRP
2 3 (15.79%) HSRP
2 3 (15.79%) IPsec
2 3 (15.79%) IPv4
2 3 (15.79%) IPv6
2 3 (15.79%) LAN
2 3 (15.79%) MPLS
2 3 (15.79%) OSPF
2 3 (15.79%) TACACS
2 3 (15.79%) VLAN
2 3 (15.79%) VXLAN
2 3 (15.79%) Wireless
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
General
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Billing
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) 802.1X
1 3 (15.79%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
2 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (36.84%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.53%) Knowledge Management
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Proactive Management
6 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
6 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.79%) CCNA
3 3 (15.79%) CCNP
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Terraform
2 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Consul
4 1 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
2 3 (15.79%) F5
2 3 (15.79%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Infoblox
2 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks