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 £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 259 248
Rank change year-on-year -23 -11 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 104 208 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.88% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.94% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 162 210
10th Percentile £400 £413 £313
25th Percentile £445 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.96% +10.32%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £635 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £554 £575
% change year-on-year -0.72% -3.65% +13.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.81
25th Percentile £27.50 - £41.89
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £44.82
75th Percentile £32.50 - £47.78
90th Percentile - - £47.88
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £45.14
% change year-on-year -68.42% +110.46% -16.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 West +2 26 £500 -16.67% 26
North of England +2 26 £513 +2.50% 21
South East -11 21 £530 -6.19% 17
Scotland +46 15 £550 -8.33% 3
Midlands +16 15 £523 +3.47% 16
North West -1 15 £510 +3.29% 8
Yorkshire +27 11 £588 - 9
West Midlands +10 10 £650 +13.04% 7
East Midlands +19 5 £356 -17.93% 9
East of England -14 1 £475 - 11
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 56 (53.85%) Azure
1 56 (53.85%) AWS
2 37 (35.58%) CI/CD
3 32 (30.77%) Python
4 27 (25.96%) Terraform
5 25 (24.04%) DevOps
6 22 (21.15%) Cloud Security
7 21 (20.19%) Social Skills
7 21 (20.19%) Kubernetes
7 21 (20.19%) Agile
8 20 (19.23%) Migration
9 19 (18.27%) Linux
9 19 (18.27%) SQL
9 19 (18.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (17.31%) Windows
11 17 (16.35%) DNS
11 17 (16.35%) Active Directory
11 17 (16.35%) Security Cleared
11 17 (16.35%) Docker
12 16 (15.38%) Ansible
12 16 (15.38%) Git
12 16 (15.38%) Bash
12 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
13 15 (14.42%) Containerisation
14 14 (13.46%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (12.50%) OpenShift
15 13 (12.50%) Entra ID
16 12 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 10 (9.62%) Apache
2 8 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.81%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.81%) JBoss
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.92%) nginx
4 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.96%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.85%) AWS
1 56 (53.85%) Azure
2 13 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 13 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 13 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 12 (11.54%) Amazon S3
3 12 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (8.65%) PaaS
4 9 (8.65%) Serverless
5 8 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.69%) CloudFront
5 8 (7.69%) GCP
5 8 (7.69%) IaaS
5 8 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 7 (6.73%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.35%) DNS
2 11 (10.58%) Firewall
3 9 (8.65%) Network Security
3 9 (8.65%) VPN
4 5 (4.81%) FTP
5 4 (3.85%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.92%) DHCP
6 2 (1.92%) VLAN
6 2 (1.92%) VSAN
6 2 (1.92%) WAN
6 2 (1.92%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.96%) IPv4
7 1 (0.96%) LAN
7 1 (0.96%) MPLS
7 1 (0.96%) OSPF
7 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.96%) VoIP
7 1 (0.96%) Wireless
7 1 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (5.77%) Big Data
1 6 (5.77%) Power BI
2 5 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.81%) RDBMS
2 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.88%) MySQL
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (15.38%) Git
2 12 (11.54%) JIRA
3 11 (10.58%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.73%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (4.81%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (4.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.81%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.92%) GitLab
7 2 (1.92%) Maven
7 2 (1.92%) Snyk
8 1 (0.96%) Gradle
General
1 21 (20.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.62%) Retail
3 9 (8.65%) Finance
4 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.77%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.88%) Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.88%) Law
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Local Government
8 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.77%) JSON
3 5 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.81%) OAuth
3 5 (4.81%) OAuth2
3 5 (4.81%) SAML
3 5 (4.81%) XML
4 4 (3.85%) Spring
5 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.92%) CSS
6 2 (1.92%) Django
6 2 (1.92%) HornetQ
6 2 (1.92%) HTML
6 2 (1.92%) JPA
6 2 (1.92%) Node.js
6 2 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.92%) REST
6 2 (1.92%) VCL
7 1 (0.96%) .NET
7 1 (0.96%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.96%) PKI
6 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.27%) Linux
2 18 (17.31%) Windows
3 11 (10.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.77%) Debian
5 5 (4.81%) VMS
6 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.58%) CI/CD
2 25 (24.04%) DevOps
3 22 (21.15%) Cloud Security
4 21 (20.19%) Agile
5 20 (19.23%) Migration
6 19 (18.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (14.42%) Containerisation
9 14 (13.46%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (10.58%) DevSecOps
11 10 (9.62%) Application Security
11 10 (9.62%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (9.62%) Incident Response
11 10 (9.62%) Task Automation
12 9 (8.65%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (8.65%) Information Security
12 9 (8.65%) Software Engineering
13 8 (7.69%) Data Management
13 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (30.77%) Python
2 19 (18.27%) SQL
3 16 (15.38%) Bash
4 11 (10.58%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.62%) Shell Script
6 9 (8.65%) Java
7 8 (7.69%) Perl
8 5 (4.81%) Bicep
8 5 (4.81%) C#
9 3 (2.88%) Julia
9 3 (2.88%) Ruby
10 2 (1.92%) Groovy
10 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.73%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.73%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.81%) Degree
6 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.96%) CCIE
7 1 (0.96%) CCNA
7 1 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.96%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) NIST
2 4 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.85%) NCSC
3 2 (1.92%) SLA
4 1 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 17 (16.35%) Active Directory
1 17 (16.35%) Docker
2 6 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.92%) Varnish
5 2 (1.92%) vCloud
5 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (25.96%) Terraform
2 21 (20.19%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.38%) Ansible
4 7 (6.73%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (4.81%) Kibana
7 4 (3.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.88%) Packer
9 2 (1.92%) Argo
9 2 (1.92%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.92%) Rancher
9 2 (1.92%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.96%) CASB
10 1 (0.96%) Grafana
10 1 (0.96%) Knative
10 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.96%) Puppet
10 1 (0.96%) SCCM
10 1 (0.96%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.58%) Red Hat
2 11 (10.58%) Splunk
3 8 (7.69%) Informatica
3 8 (7.69%) VMware
4 6 (5.77%) CA
5 5 (4.81%) AppDynamics
5 5 (4.81%) Talend
6 4 (3.85%) Cisco
6 4 (3.85%) F5
7 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.96%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.96%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.96%) Google
7 1 (0.96%) Sage
7 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.96%) Zscaler