Senior Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Senior Cloud Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.66% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £892 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 820 236 311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.52% 88.39% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 165 189
10th Percentile £350 £220 £335
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £542 £581 £588
90th Percentile £655 £650 £675
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -1.71% +3.16% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -8.14% -29.50%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +55.34% +22.37% -33.85%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 12 March 2026, 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 Sheffield region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Google
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (66.67%) Data Security
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (66.67%) GitLab
3 4 (66.67%) Go
3 4 (66.67%) Grafana
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Liquibase
3 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (66.67%) REST
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Splunk
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (50.00%) Serverless

Senior 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 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 4 (66.67%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (66.67%) Data Security
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
4 2 (33.33%) Data Encryption
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Go
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) Grafana
3 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 4 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Alibaba
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAI