Senior Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Senior Cloud Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.049% - 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% - 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 - £538
% change year-on-year - - -10.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,843 1,935 2,407
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 91.88% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,140 1,570
10th Percentile £263 £254 £213
25th Percentile £400 £402 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £609
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 63 109
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.32 £16.37
25th Percentile £17.48 £23.00 £24.34
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.80% -3.64% +150.00%
75th Percentile £69.88 £62.62 £65.25
90th Percentile £93.85 £66.80 £72.91
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -52.38% +2.10% +38.49%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £550 - 4
Senior Cloud Engineer
South East

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler