Cloud Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Cloud Network Engineer
England > South East

The median Cloud Network Engineer daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 181 -
Rank change year-on-year +27 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Network Engineer 10 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.088% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.095% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile £496 £443 -
25th Percentile - £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile - £595 -
90th Percentile - £699 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +8.11%

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 3,107 4,215 5,327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.98% 92.39% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,004 2,517 3,613
10th Percentile £204 £243 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 304 251
10th Percentile £13.20 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £30.00 £21.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.43 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -56.20% +11.68% +114.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £72.10 £80.00 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Cloud Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Network Engineer in the South East

Cloud Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Cloud Network 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 Network Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 September 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 - 9 £500 - 4
Berkshire +16 1 £500 -4.76%
Thames Valley +9 1 £500 -4.76%
Cloud Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Cloud Network 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco ISE
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (90.00%) vCenter Server
2 9 (90.00%) VMware NSX
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco IOS
2 9 (90.00%) DV Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) SolarWinds
2 9 (90.00%) Junos
2 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (90.00%) Service Management
2 9 (90.00%) ITSM
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Juniper
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (10.00%) Ceph
3 1 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (10.00%) Runbook
3 1 (10.00%) VSAN
3 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) TACACS
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) IPv6
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector

Cloud Network 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:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco IOS
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco ISE
1 9 (90.00%) Junos
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (10.00%) IPv6
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (10.00%) TACACS
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
1 9 (90.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ITSM
1 9 (90.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (90.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (10.00%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) Juniper
2 9 (90.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Dell