Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in London is £500, 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 335 372 469
Rank change year-on-year +37 +97 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 18 19 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.11% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile £407 £469 £548
25th Percentile £450 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £630 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% -1.18% +4.08%
75th Percentile £538 £768 £783
90th Percentile £570 - £810
England median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 0 1 - - 4
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 12 (66.67%) AWS
1 12 (66.67%) Terraform
2 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (55.56%) Azure
4 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps
5 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
5 8 (44.44%) Cloud Security
6 7 (38.89%) Cost Optimisation
6 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
6 7 (38.89%) DevOps
7 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (33.33%) Docker
8 5 (27.78%) Power BI
8 5 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (27.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 5 (27.78%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
8 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
8 5 (27.78%) RBAC
8 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
8 5 (27.78%) Resource Management
8 5 (27.78%) Python
8 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
8 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (27.78%) GitHub
8 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Purview

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 (5.56%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) GitHub
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
4 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Batch
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (11.11%) OCI
6 2 (11.11%) Serverless
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (5.56%) SaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) MLflow
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
2 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.56%) JWT
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) LangChain
2 1 (5.56%) NumPy
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.56%) Pandas
2 1 (5.56%) pydantic
2 1 (5.56%) pytest
2 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) BYOD
2 3 (16.67%) Hedge funds
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (44.44%) Cloud Security
4 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps
5 7 (38.89%) Cost Optimisation
5 7 (38.89%) DevOps
6 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (27.78%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (27.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 5 (27.78%) RBAC
7 5 (27.78%) Resource Management
7 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
8 4 (22.22%) GitOps
8 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 3 (16.67%) Cost Control
9 3 (16.67%) Cost Management
9 3 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) Bicep
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Ansible
4 3 (16.67%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) Confluent