Cloud Engineer Contracts in the South East

Cloud Engineer
England > South East

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the South East is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 185 167
Rank change year-on-year +47 -18 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 21 20 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 0.36% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.39% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 42
10th Percentile £468 £474 £379
25th Percentile £505 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £530 £564
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -5.99% -9.07%
75th Percentile £597 £556 £675
90th Percentile £625 £613 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate - £30.00 £95.00
% change year-on-year - -68.42% +20.63%

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the South East

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the South East

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the South East

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the South East

Cloud Engineer
Contract 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 Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire +35 10 £588 -2.08% 13
Surrey +19 5 £540 - 10
Thames Valley +44 4 £500 -34.43% 17
Berkshire +32 4 £500 -34.43% 8
East Sussex -6 2 £563 +4.65% 2
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) AWS
3 9 (42.86%) Public Cloud
3 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
5 7 (33.33%) Terraform
5 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (28.57%) DevOps
6 6 (28.57%) Ansible
6 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 6 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (23.81%) Architecture Roadmap
7 5 (23.81%) Service Design
7 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
7 5 (23.81%) Docker
7 5 (23.81%) Cisco
7 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (23.81%) Network Design
8 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
8 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
8 4 (19.05%) MPLS
8 4 (19.05%) Citrix
8 4 (19.05%) CCIE
8 4 (19.05%) SQL
8 4 (19.05%) WAN
8 4 (19.05%) VPN

Cloud Engineer 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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) IIS
1 1 (4.76%) JBoss
1 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Cloudflare
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 2 (9.52%) IaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
4 2 (9.52%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) MPLS
1 4 (19.05%) VPN
1 4 (19.05%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) BGP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) IPv6
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) OSPF
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
2 1 (4.76%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (4.76%) TACACS
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (4.76%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Korean Language
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) YAML
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) Angular 2
2 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) HTML5
2 2 (9.52%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.76%) LAMP
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 6 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Architecture Roadmap
3 5 (23.81%) Network Design
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
3 5 (23.81%) Service Design
4 4 (19.05%) Network Architecture
4 4 (19.05%) Zero Trust
5 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) Ruby
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) CCIE
4 3 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.76%) CCSP
6 1 (4.76%) CISSP
6 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.76%) OSCP
6 1 (4.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) NCSC
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (33.33%) Terraform
3 6 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (9.52%) SCCM
5 1 (4.76%) Argo
5 1 (4.76%) Kibana
5 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco
2 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
2 4 (19.05%) Citrix
2 4 (19.05%) F5
2 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
2 4 (19.05%) Zscaler
3 3 (14.29%) Databricks
4 2 (9.52%) Google
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.76%) Dell
5 1 (4.76%) New Relic
5 1 (4.76%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk