Cloud Developer Contracts in the South East

Cloud Developer
England > South East

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the South East is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 172 214
Rank change year-on-year +15 +42 +49
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 13 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.21% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.23% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £500 £490 -
25th Percentile £531 £499 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile - £597 -
90th Percentile £663 £600 -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -4.00%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,184 4,406 5,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.20% 92.23% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,049 2,657 3,628
10th Percentile £205 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £628 £613
90th Percentile £670 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 359 229
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £74.31 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.25 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -42.84% +0.32% +68.69%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Cloud Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the South East

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in the South East

Cloud Developer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +23 9 £600 +2.13%
Thames Valley +14 9 £600 +2.13%
Hampshire - 4 £550 -
Cloud Developer
England

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Cloud Developer 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 South East region featuring Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Git
3 5 (38.46%) RESTful
3 5 (38.46%) HTML
3 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) SOAP
4 4 (30.77%) Python
4 4 (30.77%) Oracle
4 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
4 4 (30.77%) Databricks
4 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (30.77%) FastAPI
4 4 (30.77%) REST
4 4 (30.77%) GCP
4 4 (30.77%) CQRS
4 4 (30.77%) Virgin Media
5 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (23.08%) Case Management
5 3 (23.08%) SOQL
5 3 (23.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (23.08%) OCI
5 3 (23.08%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (23.08%) Apex Code

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (15.38%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (23.08%) OCI
4 3 (23.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (15.38%) npm
5 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio Code
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) HTML
1 5 (38.46%) RESTful
1 5 (38.46%) SOAP
2 4 (30.77%) FastAPI
2 4 (30.77%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) jQuery
3 3 (23.08%) JSON
3 3 (23.08%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) XML
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) Material-UI
4 2 (15.38%) Next.js
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
4 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
4 2 (15.38%) React
4 2 (15.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) CQRS
2 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
2 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Case Management
4 2 (15.38%) API Development
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
4 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
4 2 (15.38%) ERP
4 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) OO
4 2 (15.38%) SOA
4 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Apex Code
3 3 (23.08%) SOQL
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
1 4 (30.77%) Virgin Media
2 3 (23.08%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft