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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 297 256
Rank change year-on-year +45 -41 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 91 100 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.48% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.52% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 83 137
10th Percentile £368 £400 £413
25th Percentile £455 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +6.80%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £649
90th Percentile £625 £650 £697
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £74.25
% change year-on-year +50.00% -59.60% +19.86%

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 11,956 19,149 21,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.41% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,594 11,598 14,941
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,392 1,083
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.95
Median hourly rate £26.28 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.30% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% -16.67% +87.50%

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 31 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 31 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 +51 25 £500 -6.32% 39
North of England +14 22 £500 -2.44% 71
Scotland +6 16 £525 +5.00% 21
Midlands +13 13 £500 +5.54% 35
North West +8 11 £402 -21.18% 36
North East - 8 £550 - 9
East Midlands +11 7 £475 +33.43% 10
East of England +29 6 £493 +3.68% 19
South West +25 6 £563 +12.50% 34
West Midlands +11 6 £525 -19.23% 25
Yorkshire +4 3 £500 -16.67% 26
Wales - 3 £300 - 8
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 52 (57.14%) AWS
2 45 (49.45%) Python
3 35 (38.46%) Azure
4 34 (37.36%) DevOps
4 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
5 28 (30.77%) Social Skills
6 26 (28.57%) SQL
7 25 (27.47%) Kubernetes
8 23 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (25.27%) Terraform
9 21 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (21.98%) Docker
10 20 (21.98%) Serverless
11 19 (20.88%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (19.78%) AWS Certification
13 17 (18.68%) Amazon S3
13 17 (18.68%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (18.68%) Cloud Security
14 15 (16.48%) GitHub
14 15 (16.48%) Jenkins
14 15 (16.48%) Linux
15 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (15.38%) Containerisation
16 13 (14.29%) DNS
16 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
17 12 (13.19%) Ansible
17 12 (13.19%) Windows
17 12 (13.19%) Firewall
17 12 (13.19%) Data Engineering
18 11 (12.09%) Cloud Native

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 (6.59%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.30%) Apache
2 3 (3.30%) JBoss
2 3 (3.30%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) Confluence
4 1 (1.10%) IIS
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.10%) Magento
2 1 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (57.14%) AWS
2 35 (38.46%) Azure
3 20 (21.98%) Serverless
4 19 (20.88%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (18.68%) Amazon S3
6 15 (16.48%) GitHub
7 8 (8.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (8.79%) Cloudflare
7 8 (8.79%) GCP
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (6.59%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (6.59%) IaaS
9 6 (6.59%) PaaS
10 5 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.49%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (5.49%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) DNS
2 12 (13.19%) Firewall
3 8 (8.79%) VPN
4 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.40%) MPLS
5 4 (4.40%) Network Security
5 4 (4.40%) WAN
6 2 (2.20%) BGP
6 2 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (2.20%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (2.20%) IPv6
6 2 (2.20%) OSPF
6 2 (2.20%) SAN
6 2 (2.20%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (2.20%) TACACS
6 2 (2.20%) VSAN
7 1 (1.10%) SSL
7 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.79%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.49%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.40%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.30%) Parquet
5 3 (3.30%) Power BI
5 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.20%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.20%) Looker
6 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.20%) Tableau
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.10%) MySQL
7 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.89%) JIRA
3 8 (8.79%) GitLab
4 5 (5.49%) Git
5 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (3.30%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.30%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 28 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Finance
4 5 (5.49%) Banking
4 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Korean Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 6 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.59%) Kafka
3 3 (3.30%) JSON
3 3 (3.30%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.20%) .NET
4 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.20%) Middleware
4 2 (2.20%) Node.js
4 2 (2.20%) NumPy
4 2 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.20%) Pandas
4 2 (2.20%) PySpark
4 2 (2.20%) React
4 2 (2.20%) RESTful
4 2 (2.20%) YAML
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (1.10%) LAMP
5 1 (1.10%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (1.10%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.79%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.20%) Replication
6 2 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.48%) Linux
2 12 (13.19%) Windows
3 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
1 34 (37.36%) DevOps
2 23 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (18.68%) Cloud Security
3 17 (18.68%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (13.19%) Data Engineering
6 11 (12.09%) Agile
6 11 (12.09%) Analytics
6 11 (12.09%) ETL
6 11 (12.09%) High Availability
7 10 (10.99%) Computer Science
7 10 (10.99%) Migration
8 9 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (9.89%) Data Ingestion
9 8 (8.79%) Data Analytics
9 8 (8.79%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (8.79%) Validation
9 8 (8.79%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 45 (49.45%) Python
2 26 (28.57%) SQL
3 10 (10.99%) Java
4 8 (8.79%) Bash
5 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.40%) Scala
6 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.30%) Perl
6 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.10%) Bicep
7 1 (1.10%) C#
7 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.10%) PHP
7 1 (1.10%) Ruby
7 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) AWS Certification
2 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 11 (12.09%) Degree
3 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.40%) CCIE
8 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.10%) CCSP
9 1 (1.10%) CISSP
9 1 (1.10%) OSCP
9 1 (1.10%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.49%) QA
3 4 (4.40%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (21.98%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.30%) vSphere
6 2 (2.20%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 25 (27.47%) Kubernetes
2 23 (25.27%) Terraform
3 12 (13.19%) Ansible
4 4 (4.40%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.30%) Kibana
6 2 (2.20%) Grafana
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.10%) Argo
7 1 (1.10%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.10%) Podman
7 1 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.79%) Oracle
3 6 (6.59%) Cisco
4 5 (5.49%) Fortinet
4 5 (5.49%) Google
4 5 (5.49%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.49%) Zscaler
5 4 (4.40%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.40%) Citrix
5 4 (4.40%) F5
5 4 (4.40%) SolarWinds
5 4 (4.40%) Splunk
6 3 (3.30%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.30%) Databricks
7 2 (2.20%) Dell
7 2 (2.20%) SAP
8 1 (1.10%) Adobe
8 1 (1.10%) Commvault
8 1 (1.10%) New Relic
8 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow