Cloud Specialist Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 345 392
Rank change year-on-year -34 +47 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 12 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.007% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.008% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £533 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +31.76% -20.93% -17.31%
75th Percentile £604 £438 £603
90th Percentile £613 - £690
UK median daily rate £570 £458 £538
% change year-on-year +24.59% -14.88% -8.12%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 16,248 12,697 18,238
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.50% 92.21% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,963 7,524 11,727
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -4.30% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,642 689 1,388
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.26 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.88 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.54% -31.39% +66.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.02 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +28.79%

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cloud Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Midlands - 5 £575 -
West Midlands - 5 £575 -
North of England - 4 £550 -
Scotland - 3 £538 -
North West - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
Cloud Specialist
UK

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Cloud Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Big Data
2 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (25.00%) Kibana
2 3 (25.00%) logstash
2 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) OCI
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Application Discovery
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (8.33%) Business Case
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Big Data
1 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) Application Discovery
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Data Conversion
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Key Management
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (8.33%) Validation
3 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
1 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kibana
1 3 (25.00%) logstash
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) CloudEndure