Cloud Engineer Contracts in the South East

Cloud Engineer
England > South East

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the South East is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 171 208
Rank change year-on-year -9 +37 -75
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 20 55 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% 0.94% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 1.00% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 42 32
10th Percentile £474 £379 £468
25th Percentile £488 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £564 £620
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% -9.07% +33.33%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £675
90th Percentile £613 £700 £737
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.50 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £32.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -68.42% +20.63% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 5,114 5,511 7,446
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.54% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,843 5,039
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £615 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 238 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
East Sussex +11 6 £538 -17.31% 1
Surrey +6 3 - - 6
West Sussex +5 3 £500 -16.67% 1
Berkshire -21 3 £763 +35.25% 3
Thames Valley -23 3 £763 +37.08% 7
Kent - 3 £495 -
Hampshire -4 1 £600 +23.08% 6
Sussex - 1 £500 -
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 10 (50.00%) Azure
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) Linux
3 6 (30.00%) DNS
3 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (30.00%) Debian
3 6 (30.00%) Ansible
3 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (25.00%) Datadog
4 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (25.00%) Bash
5 4 (20.00%) IaaS
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (20.00%) Python
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Docker
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Performance Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (15.00%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Operations

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 2 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Datadog
4 4 (20.00%) IaaS
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (15.00%) CloudFront
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (15.00%) Route 53
5 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (10.00%) Fastly
6 2 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
7 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Network Security
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) VSAN
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) MPLS
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Django
1 2 (10.00%) HornetQ
1 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (10.00%) VCL
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Debian
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) Budget Responsibility
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) Information Security
5 2 (10.00%) Information Security Management
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (10.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Security Management
6 1 (5.00%) Architecture Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Bash
1 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) CCIE
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (10.00%) Varnish
2 2 (10.00%) vCloud
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) HAProxy
3 2 (10.00%) Rancher
3 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler