Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Cloud Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 53 52
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 22 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 3.51% 0.93% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.88% 1.08% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 1
10th Percentile £466 £572 -
25th Percentile £468 £587 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +2.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £614 -
90th Percentile £892 £614 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £612 £600
% change year-on-year -14.22% +2.00% -7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 567 369 355
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 86.01% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 199 235
10th Percentile £313 £250 £375
25th Percentile £400 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £534 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -9.10% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £612 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £525 £551
% change year-on-year -8.81% -4.66% +10.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.14 £14.67
25th Percentile £16.68 £15.22 £18.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £24.02 - £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.23% +6.58%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Sheffield over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Sheffield

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, 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 Sheffield region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (95.45%) GCP
2 20 (90.91%) Terraform
3 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
3 19 (86.36%) DevOps
3 19 (86.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (86.36%) Jenkins
4 17 (77.27%) AWS
4 17 (77.27%) Containerisation
4 17 (77.27%) GitLab
5 16 (72.73%) Ansible
5 16 (72.73%) Go
5 16 (72.73%) Python
5 16 (72.73%) REST
6 15 (68.18%) Agile
6 15 (68.18%) Cryptography
6 15 (68.18%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (68.18%) Grafana
6 15 (68.18%) Kubernetes
6 15 (68.18%) Linux
6 15 (68.18%) NoSQL
6 15 (68.18%) Prometheus
6 15 (68.18%) RESTful
6 15 (68.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (68.18%) Serverless
6 15 (68.18%) Splunk
7 14 (63.64%) Computer Science
7 14 (63.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (63.64%) Cost Optimisation
7 14 (63.64%) Degree
7 14 (63.64%) Master's Degree

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 21 (95.45%) GCP
2 17 (77.27%) AWS
3 15 (68.18%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (68.18%) NoSQL
2 14 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (86.36%) Jenkins
2 17 (77.27%) GitLab
3 8 (36.36%) Liquibase
4 1 (4.55%) Git
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 14 (63.64%) Banking
2 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
3 10 (45.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (72.73%) REST
2 15 (68.18%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (68.18%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (77.27%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (72.73%) Public Cloud
3 9 (40.91%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
1 19 (86.36%) DevOps
1 19 (86.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (77.27%) Containerisation
3 15 (68.18%) Agile
3 15 (68.18%) Cryptography
3 15 (68.18%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (63.64%) Computer Science
4 14 (63.64%) Cost Optimisation
5 13 (59.09%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (59.09%) Microservices
5 13 (59.09%) Non-Functional Testing
6 12 (54.55%) Continuous Delivery
6 12 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (54.55%) Data Security
7 11 (50.00%) Data Encryption
7 11 (50.00%) High Availability
8 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
9 6 (27.27%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Go
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 14 (63.64%) Degree
1 14 (63.64%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (90.91%) Terraform
2 16 (72.73%) Ansible
3 15 (68.18%) Grafana
3 15 (68.18%) Kubernetes
3 15 (68.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Splunk
2 10 (45.45%) Google