Lead Cloud Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 434 501
Rank change year-on-year +41 +67 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.013% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.014% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £550 £522
25th Percentile - £569 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £583
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +7.30% -2.92%
75th Percentile - £669 £618
90th Percentile - £680 £637
UK median daily rate £563 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +9.70%

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 18,731 21,611 29,386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,452 15,051 20,618
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 1,106 1,459
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Lead 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 Lead Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 5
South West - 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 £475 - 5
Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) IPv4
2 1 (50.00%) Informatica
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell

Lead 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) IPv4
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica