Cloud Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 369 425
Rank change year-on-year +10 +56 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Software Engineer 4 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.011% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.012% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £424 - £500
25th Percentile £429 - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £499 - £538
90th Percentile £507 - £595
UK median daily rate £480 - £520
% change year-on-year - - -16.80%

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 13,732 16,995 21,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 92.01% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,406 10,368 14,278
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £684 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 1,772 1,162
10th Percentile £13.36 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

Cloud Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Software 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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Scotland -1 2 £448 - 1
North of England -9 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £485 - 1
Cloud Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, Cloud Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Google
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Go
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Cloud Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Release Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk