Cloud Engineer Contracts in the South West

Cloud Engineer
England > South West

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the South West is £575, 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 106 131 125
Rank change year-on-year +25 -6 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 5 26 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 0.81% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.87% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 37
10th Percentile £514 £400 £498
25th Percentile £563 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £675
90th Percentile £685 £600 £730
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +17 3 £575 +30.91% 12
Gloucestershire +8 1 £600 +20.00% 14
Somerset - 1 £488 - 3
Cloud Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) Node.js
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Angular 2
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle