Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 3 September 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
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 144 152
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 35 27 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.89% 0.65% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.70% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 38
10th Percentile £400 £368 £447
25th Percentile £402 £403 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -10.89% -
75th Percentile £500 £588 £573
90th Percentile £628 £621 £653
England median daily rate £500 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -4.35%

All DemandTrendContract 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 3,653 3,841 4,778
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 92.87% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,380 2,279 3,227
10th Percentile £251 £283 £263
25th Percentile £370 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 270 200
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.13 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.65
Median hourly rate £22.32 £29.89 £26.64
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +12.18% +28.20%
75th Percentile £48.56 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £69.78 £56.02
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +66.10%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies 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 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies 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 3 September 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 +4 21 £444 +10.94% 11
Yorkshire -20 9 £500 +8.11% 4
North East - 5 £460 - 1
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 September 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 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 17 (48.57%) AWS
2 17 (48.57%) Cloud Security
3 13 (37.14%) DevOps
4 12 (34.29%) Finance
4 12 (34.29%) Terraform
5 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
6 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (22.86%) Banking
7 8 (22.86%) Windows
8 7 (20.00%) Python
8 7 (20.00%) GitHub
8 7 (20.00%) High Availability
8 7 (20.00%) GCP
8 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
8 7 (20.00%) Zscaler
9 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
9 6 (17.14%) Server Hardening
9 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
9 6 (17.14%) Serverless
9 6 (17.14%) Firewall
10 5 (14.29%) Information Security
10 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (14.29%) SQL
10 5 (14.29%) AWS Certification
10 5 (14.29%) GitLab
10 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
10 5 (14.29%) Entra ID

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 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.71%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Magento
1 1 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 17 (48.57%) AWS
3 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (20.00%) GCP
4 7 (20.00%) GitHub
5 6 (17.14%) Serverless
6 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (8.57%) IaaS
8 3 (8.57%) PaaS
9 2 (5.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Firewall
2 4 (11.43%) DNS
3 2 (5.71%) VPN
4 1 (2.86%) Network Security
4 1 (2.86%) SSL
4 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) Big Data
3 1 (2.86%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) ARM Templates
1 3 (8.57%) RESTful
1 3 (8.57%) Web Services
2 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.71%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Cloud Security
2 13 (37.14%) DevOps
3 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
4 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (20.00%) High Availability
6 6 (17.14%) Server Hardening
7 5 (14.29%) Fintech
7 5 (14.29%) Information Security
8 4 (11.43%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (11.43%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
9 3 (8.57%) Cost Optimisation
9 3 (8.57%) Customer Acquisition
9 3 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.57%) Resource Allocation
9 3 (8.57%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) Bicep
3 3 (8.57%) Go
3 3 (8.57%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) Bash
4 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.86%) Korn
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
2 5 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.86%) Degree
6 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Terraform
2 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.43%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) Grafana
4 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.86%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.86%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 4 (11.43%) Darktrace
3 4 (11.43%) SAP
4 3 (8.57%) Axway
5 2 (5.71%) Google
5 2 (5.71%) Splunk
5 2 (5.71%) Varonis
6 1 (2.86%) Adobe
6 1 (2.86%) Sage
6 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.86%) VMware
6 1 (2.86%) WooCommerce