Senior Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 163 192
Rank change year-on-year -18 +29 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.073% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.079% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £740 - -
25th Percentile £838 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 £400 £505
Median % change year-on-year +123.00% -20.79% -19.20%
75th Percentile - £438 £571
90th Percentile - £460 £611
England median daily rate £563 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +18.42% -24.00% +6.84%

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 3,721 3,787 4,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 92.01% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,462 2,071 3,258
10th Percentile £241 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 233 216
10th Percentile £13.38 £15.25 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.36 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.56 £32.50 £23.07
Median % change year-on-year -24.43% +40.88% +8.77%
75th Percentile £51.06 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.58 £70.72 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £45.94
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.40% +74.41%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Yorkshire -14 4 £892 +87.79%
North East - 1 - - 1
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 2025, Senior Cloud 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
1 4 (80.00%) Go
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation

Senior Cloud 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Data Encryption
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Go
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Sage