Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 387 449
Rank change year-on-year +60 +62 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 9 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.058% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.062% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 9
10th Percentile £393 £473 £605
25th Percentile - £484 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +22.64%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £675
90th Percentile £660 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands - 4 £650 - 19
Scotland +12 3 £525 -10.29% 4
North of England +16 2 £475 -20.83% 32
East Midlands - 2 £534 - 6
West Midlands - 2 £650 - 12
North East - 1 £550 - 4
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Docker
3 5 (55.56%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Serverless
4 4 (44.44%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
4 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 4 (44.44%) GitHub
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
5 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (33.33%) Parquet
5 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (33.33%) Retail
5 3 (33.33%) JSON
5 3 (33.33%) Release Management
5 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 3 (33.33%) AWS CDK

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Batch
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 3 (33.33%) Parquet
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (33.33%) Release Management
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 2 (22.22%) Data Security
6 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Ariba
2 2 (22.22%) SAP