Lead Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 356 412
Rank change year-on-year -27 +56 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 1 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.035% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.038% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £531 £555
25th Percentile - £616 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile - £688 £681
90th Percentile - - £685
UK median daily rate £500 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -27.27% +1.85% -6.90%

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 14,261 15,903 19,853
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.62% 92.27% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,772 9,032 13,229
10th Percentile £206 £220 £220
25th Percentile £363 £370 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £671 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,341 1,203 1,255
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.40 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% -4.49% +97.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.47 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Lead Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancies 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 14 October 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
Yorkshire -23 1 £500 +5.26% 5
North of England -27 1 £500 +5.26% 13
Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Lead Cloud Engineer 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 Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps

Lead Cloud Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk