Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Cloud Engineer
England > South West

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the South West is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 124 117
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 14 11 41
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.62% 0.46% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.50% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 36
10th Percentile £433 - £463
25th Percentile £511 £563 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -14.56%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £641
90th Percentile - £788 £719
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.65%

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 2,017 2,204 2,955
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.64% 92.49% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,329 1,953
10th Percentile £225 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £640 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £710
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 181 308
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.79 £17.92
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.00 £44.25
Median hourly rate £33.17 £65.00 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -48.97% +13.38% -11.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £73.75 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +39.11%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies 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 24 November 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 24 November 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
Wiltshire - 6 £538 - 8
Bristol +4 5 £525 -32.26% 10
Dorset +5 2 £610 +6.09% 2
Somerset - 1 - - 1
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 24 November 2025, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
3 5 (35.71%) Google
3 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Terraform
4 4 (28.57%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) AWS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (21.43%) Python
5 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
6 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (14.29%) Istio
6 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (7.14%) AI
7 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (7.14%) Bash

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) AI
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.14%) Data Development
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.14%) Runbook
5 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (7.14%) Supplier Management
5 1 (7.14%) TOGAF
5 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Istio
3 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Sophos