Senior Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Senior Cloud Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.61% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £702 - £600

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 886 275 379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.04% 89.58% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 193 227
10th Percentile £335 £211 £244
25th Percentile £408 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +3.16% -11.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £587
90th Percentile £673 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £458 £453
% change year-on-year +5.36% +0.99% -13.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% +22.37% -33.85%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £37.18 £21.24 £13.98
% change year-on-year +75.05% +51.93% -39.87%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
Sheffield - 6 £892 - 1
Senior Cloud Engineer
Yorkshire

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 12 March 2026, Senior 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Google
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (66.67%) Data Security
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (66.67%) GitLab
3 4 (66.67%) Go
3 4 (66.67%) Grafana
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Liquibase
3 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (66.67%) REST
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Splunk
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (50.00%) Serverless

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 4 (66.67%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (66.67%) Data Security
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
4 2 (33.33%) Data Encryption
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Go
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) Grafana
3 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 4 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Alibaba
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAI