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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 367 401
Rank change year-on-year +44 +34 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 17 24 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 30
10th Percentile £406 £256 £475
25th Percentile £490 £264 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £575 £694
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.91%
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 11,891 18,751 21,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.48% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,557 11,466 15,208
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,268 1,112
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.21 £15.74 £18.07
Median hourly rate £26.75 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

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 20 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 20 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
Midlands +18 4 £550 - 1
North of England +12 3 £500 -9.09% 10
West Midlands +6 3 £550 - 1
South West +40 2 - - 2
South East +37 2 - - 6
East of England +26 2 £700 +30.23%
Scotland +5 2 £490 - 2
Yorkshire +17 1 £400 - 2
North West +11 1 - - 8
Wales - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 £600 -
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 20 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 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) OCI
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) SAP
4 5 (29.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
5 4 (23.53%) Azure
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
7 2 (11.76%) Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
7 2 (11.76%) Order to Cash
7 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (11.76%) Record to Report
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
7 2 (11.76%) JIRA
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
7 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
8 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (5.88%) Git
8 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.88%) Cash Management
8 1 (5.88%) Data Conversion
8 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared

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 (29.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (5.88%) Primavera
2 1 (5.88%) SAP BPC
2 1 (5.88%) SAP CO
2 1 (5.88%) SAP FI
2 1 (5.88%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (5.88%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) OCI
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.88%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.88%) Adabas
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Billing
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Analytics
2 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
3 2 (11.76%) Order to Cash
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (11.76%) Record to Report
3 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.88%) Accounts Receivable
4 1 (5.88%) Business Process Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Enablement
4 1 (5.88%) Personalization
4 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (5.88%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (5.88%) Supply Chain Planning
4 1 (5.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) Natural
1 1 (5.88%) ProC
1 1 (5.88%) R
1 1 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 6 (35.29%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce