Cloud Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 377 406
Rank change year-on-year +52 +29 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 14 22 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 30
10th Percentile £462 £241 £475
25th Percentile £521 £256 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -41.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £694
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +6.48% -10.00% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Cloud Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK excluding London

Cloud Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
East of England +29 3 £700 +30.23%
North of England +22 3 £500 -9.09% 6
South East +41 2 - - 5
Midlands +20 2 £550 - 4
West Midlands +16 2 £550 - 4
South West +40 1 - - 2
North West +12 1 - - 5
Scotland +11 1 £550 - 2
Yorkshire +7 1 £400 - 1
North East - 1 £600 -
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £520 -
Cloud Consultant
UK

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Cloud Consultant 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) SAP
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (35.71%) Oracle
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 4 (28.57%) OCI
5 3 (21.43%) Record to Report
5 3 (21.43%) Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (21.43%) Business Transformation
6 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 2 (14.29%) JIRA
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
7 1 (7.14%) System Integration Testing
7 1 (7.14%) API Development
7 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (7.14%) Swagger
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (7.14%) Personalization
7 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (7.14%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (7.14%) Serverless
7 1 (7.14%) Supply Chain Planning
7 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (35.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP BPC
2 1 (7.14%) SAP CO
2 1 (7.14%) SAP FI
2 1 (7.14%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (7.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) OCI
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Adabas
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Business Transformation
3 3 (21.43%) Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (21.43%) Record to Report
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) CRM
5 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
5 1 (7.14%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.14%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Personalization
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (7.14%) Supply Chain Planning
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Test Management
5 1 (7.14%) Test Scripting
5 1 (7.14%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) Natural
1 1 (7.14%) R
1 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) SAP
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian