Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 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
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 375 457
Rank change year-on-year +30 +82 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 17 19 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.11% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 16
10th Percentile £407 £456 £547
25th Percentile £448 £484 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £590 £641
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% -7.99% +9.38%
75th Percentile £592 £645 £788
90th Percentile £701 £652 £813
England median daily rate £525 £525 £645
% change year-on-year - -18.60% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 12,634 15,920 23,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 94.17% 94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,542 11,359 17,268
10th Percentile £331 £332 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 257 263
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.00 £23.18
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.71 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% -18.69% +11.43%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.45 £71.25 £82.45
England median hourly rate £27.39 £42.50 £44.06
% change year-on-year -35.56% -3.53% +75.62%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -5 2 £550 -
East London - 1 - -
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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 (70.59%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) Terraform
3 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
4 7 (41.18%) Python
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
6 5 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (29.41%) GitHub
6 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
6 5 (29.41%) Docker
6 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
6 5 (29.41%) Migration
7 4 (23.53%) Ansible
7 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
7 4 (23.53%) GitLab
7 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
7 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
8 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 3 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
8 3 (17.65%) Serverless
8 3 (17.65%) ARM Templates
8 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda

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 (5.88%) Jupyter
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
5 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 3 (17.65%) Serverless
6 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Batch
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) BGP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) IGRP
1 1 (5.88%) OSPF
1 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) ARM Templates
2 2 (11.76%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.88%) Jinja
3 1 (5.88%) JWT
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) LangChain
3 1 (5.88%) NumPy
3 1 (5.88%) OpenID
3 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.88%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) pytest
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) CentOS
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.76%) High Availability
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
7 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Ruby
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Puppet
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Confluent
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto