Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts in the South East

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the South East is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.057% - 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% - 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - £700
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £638
% change year-on-year +5.00% -21.57% +6.25%

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 3,169 4,590 5,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 92.06% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,055 2,807 3,686
10th Percentile £213 £255 £225
25th Percentile £376 £404 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 381 242
10th Percentile £13.93 £15.96 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £19.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +138.10%
75th Percentile £58.75 £72.33 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the South East

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the South East

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire - 2 £402 - 1
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes