Cloud Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cloud Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Cloud Software Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 - 184
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Software Engineer 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.049% - 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% - 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - -
England median daily rate £892 £575 £725
% change year-on-year +55.13% -20.69% +45.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 5,612 3,066 4,446
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 93.48% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,466 2,038 2,815
10th Percentile £275 £232 £263
25th Percentile £385 £365 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £487
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -3.49% -2.60%
75th Percentile £567 £559 £580
90th Percentile £650 £650 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 160 393
10th Percentile £17.19 £12.98 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.46 £16.44 £12.53
Median hourly rate £45.46 £24.54 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.23% +22.71% -34.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £49.06 £45.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.87 £60.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +43.14% -9.26% -22.22%

Cloud Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Cloud Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cloud Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Cloud Software 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 Software Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 3 £892 -
Cloud Software Engineer
England

Cloud Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 24 April 2026, Cloud Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Cloud Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Liquibase
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification

Cloud Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Google