Cloud Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
England > North of England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £450, 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 145 159 170
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 21 26 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.55% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.59% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 40
10th Percentile £394 £425 £404
25th Percentile £406 £505 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £564
90th Percentile £648 £600 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +12 12 £450 -11.76% 47
North East - 7 £600 - 11
Yorkshire 0 1 £425 -29.17% 27
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (28.57%) PaaS
3 6 (28.57%) High Availability
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (28.57%) IaaS
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (28.57%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (23.81%) GitHub
5 4 (19.05%) Process Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (19.05%) SQL
5 4 (19.05%) Windows
5 4 (19.05%) DNS
5 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (19.05%) GitLab
5 4 (19.05%) Terraform
5 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
5 4 (19.05%) Resource Allocation
5 4 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (19.05%) Customer Acquisition
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (28.57%) IaaS
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (28.57%) PaaS
4 5 (23.81%) GitHub
5 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (14.29%) SaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (9.52%) Serverless
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (9.52%) Banking
1 2 (9.52%) Finance
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Retail
2 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 3 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) High Availability
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Customer Acquisition
4 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (19.05%) Process Improvement
4 4 (19.05%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (9.52%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 3 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (9.52%) WSUS
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 2 (9.52%) Ariba
3 2 (9.52%) SAP