Cloud Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 375 429
Rank change year-on-year +42 +54 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 22 23 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.11% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.12% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 8
10th Percentile £500 £429 £456
25th Percentile £525 £475 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +1.45% -13.03%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £575
90th Percentile £636 £598 £581
UK median daily rate £538 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +4.88% -14.58% -

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 12,351 19,848 21,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 92.45% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,722 11,791 14,900
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 960 2,571 1,111
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.70 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Developer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Developer
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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
South East +51 10 £550 -2.22% 29
South West +45 4 £613 - 15
East of England +20 3 £575 +17.95% 16
Scotland +2 3 £525 -6.25% 4
North West +9 1 £350 - 22
North of England +8 1 £350 +16.67% 44
Wales - 1 £600 - 3
Cloud Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Cloud Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 9 (40.91%) SQL
1 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Docker
3 7 (31.82%) Python
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 7 (31.82%) GitHub
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Salesforce
4 6 (27.27%) JSON
4 6 (27.27%) Azure
4 6 (27.27%) AWS
4 6 (27.27%) HTML
5 5 (22.73%) SOAP
5 5 (22.73%) OO
5 5 (22.73%) Git
5 5 (22.73%) REST
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Serverless
6 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
6 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
6 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) RESTful
6 4 (18.18%) Linux
6 4 (18.18%) Oracle
6 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
6 4 (18.18%) ERP
7 3 (13.64%) Agile
7 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS

Cloud Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) GitHub
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (13.64%) OCI
4 3 (13.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) npm
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
1 3 (13.64%) Parquet
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (13.64%) Marketing
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) HTML
1 6 (27.27%) JSON
2 5 (22.73%) REST
2 5 (22.73%) SOAP
3 4 (18.18%) RESTful
4 3 (13.64%) AWS CDK
4 3 (13.64%) CSS
4 3 (13.64%) jQuery
4 3 (13.64%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (13.64%) Web Services
4 3 (13.64%) XML
5 2 (9.09%) Material-UI
5 2 (9.09%) Next.js
5 2 (9.09%) Node.js
5 2 (9.09%) OpenAPI
5 2 (9.09%) React
5 2 (9.09%) Swagger
6 1 (4.55%) .NET
6 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) OO
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 4 (18.18%) ERP
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) Case Management
5 3 (13.64%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
5 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (13.64%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.64%) Microservices
5 3 (13.64%) OOP
5 3 (13.64%) Release Management
5 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Data Transformation
6 2 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
2 7 (31.82%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 3 (13.64%) Apex Code
4 3 (13.64%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) SOQL
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Salesforce
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) IFS
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) Databricks
5 1 (4.55%) Genesys
5 1 (4.55%) Virgin Media