Cloud Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 290 256
Rank change year-on-year +39 -34 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 85 110 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.53% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.57% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 85 173
10th Percentile £381 £400 £407
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £633 £650 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year - -58.90% +61.72%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
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 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +47 21 £563 +6.13% 83
North of England +14 21 £450 -14.29% 84
Midlands +23 16 £475 -9.09% 37
Scotland +8 14 £525 -4.55% 13
North West +12 12 £450 -11.76% 47
East Midlands +13 8 £475 +33.43% 10
West Midlands +12 8 £588 -9.62% 26
North East - 7 £600 - 11
East of England +35 6 £493 +3.68% 24
South West +25 5 £575 +15.00% 33
Wales 0 2 £300 -53.85% 4
Yorkshire 0 1 £425 -29.17% 27
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (47.06%) Azure
1 40 (47.06%) AWS
2 36 (42.35%) Python
3 30 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 27 (31.76%) DevOps
5 23 (27.06%) Terraform
6 21 (24.71%) SQL
7 19 (22.35%) Kubernetes
8 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
9 16 (18.82%) Serverless
9 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (17.65%) Docker
11 14 (16.47%) Amazon S3
11 14 (16.47%) GitHub
11 14 (16.47%) Cloud Security
11 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
13 11 (12.94%) Firewall
13 11 (12.94%) Degree
13 11 (12.94%) AWS Certification
13 11 (12.94%) Public Cloud
13 11 (12.94%) Cloud Native
14 10 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
14 10 (11.76%) Data Engineering
14 10 (11.76%) GCP
14 10 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (11.76%) Jenkins

Cloud Engineer 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 6 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.53%) Apache
2 3 (3.53%) JBoss
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
4 1 (1.18%) IIS
4 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.06%) AWS
1 40 (47.06%) Azure
2 16 (18.82%) Serverless
3 15 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (16.47%) Amazon S3
4 14 (16.47%) GitHub
5 10 (11.76%) GCP
5 10 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (10.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (9.41%) IaaS
7 8 (9.41%) PaaS
8 7 (8.24%) Cloudflare
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.88%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.94%) Firewall
2 8 (9.41%) DNS
3 7 (8.24%) VPN
4 4 (4.71%) MPLS
4 4 (4.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.71%) WAN
5 3 (3.53%) Network Security
5 3 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.18%) BGP
6 1 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.18%) IPv6
6 1 (1.18%) OSPF
6 1 (1.18%) SAN
6 1 (1.18%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.18%) TACACS
6 1 (1.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 5 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.71%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.53%) Parquet
3 3 (3.53%) Power BI
3 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.35%) Looker
4 2 (2.35%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.35%) Tableau
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.18%) MySQL
5 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.88%) GitLab
2 5 (5.88%) JIRA
3 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (3.53%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (3.53%) Git
3 3 (3.53%) SonarQube
3 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.53%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Finance
4 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.53%) Retail
6 2 (2.35%) Banking
6 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Korean Language
7 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 5 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 4 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.71%) Kafka
2 4 (4.71%) Node.js
2 4 (4.71%) YAML
3 3 (3.53%) Angular 2
3 3 (3.53%) CSS
3 3 (3.53%) HTML
3 3 (3.53%) HTML5
3 3 (3.53%) JSON
3 3 (3.53%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.35%) .NET
4 2 (2.35%) Middleware
4 2 (2.35%) NumPy
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.35%) Pandas
4 2 (2.35%) PySpark
4 2 (2.35%) React
4 2 (2.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Cloud Native
1 11 (12.94%) Public Cloud
2 6 (7.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Linux
2 7 (8.24%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 27 (31.76%) DevOps
3 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (16.47%) Cloud Security
5 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (11.76%) Agile
6 10 (11.76%) Data Engineering
6 10 (11.76%) High Availability
6 10 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (10.59%) Analytics
7 9 (10.59%) Containerisation
7 9 (10.59%) ETL
7 9 (10.59%) Migration
8 8 (9.41%) Computer Science
9 7 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (8.24%) Data Ingestion
9 7 (8.24%) Microservices
9 7 (8.24%) Zero Trust
10 6 (7.06%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.35%) Python
2 21 (24.71%) SQL
3 8 (9.41%) Java
4 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.53%) Bicep
6 3 (3.53%) Perl
6 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.35%) Bash
7 2 (2.35%) Scala
7 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.18%) C#
8 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.18%) PHP
8 1 (1.18%) Ruby
8 1 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (12.94%) AWS Certification
1 11 (12.94%) Degree
2 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.71%) CCIE
6 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.18%) CCSP
7 1 (1.18%) CISSP
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.18%) OSCP
7 1 (1.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.53%) GDPR
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.35%) NCSC
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
4 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 15 (17.65%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.18%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 23 (27.06%) Terraform
2 19 (22.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.41%) Ansible
4 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.71%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.53%) Kibana
6 2 (2.35%) SCCM
6 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.35%) WSUS
7 1 (1.18%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Oracle
3 7 (8.24%) Google
4 5 (5.88%) Cisco
4 5 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.71%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.71%) Citrix
5 4 (4.71%) F5
5 4 (4.71%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.71%) Zscaler
6 3 (3.53%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.53%) Databricks
6 3 (3.53%) SAP
6 3 (3.53%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.53%) Splunk
7 2 (2.35%) Ariba
8 1 (1.18%) Dell
8 1 (1.18%) New Relic
8 1 (1.18%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.18%) Sophos